Books Archive - University of Pittsburgh Press

Poland 1945

War and Peace

Translated by John Markoff, Malgorzata Markoff The official end of World War II did not mean the end of the torments inflicted on civilians. This book brings us vivid personal accounts of ordinary people in Poland—Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and others—caught up in the most violent war in ...

Victory Banner Over the Reichstag, The

Film, Document and Ritual in Russia's Contested Memory of World War II

By Jeremy Hicks

In one of the most iconic images from World War II, a Russian soldier raises a red flag atop the ruins of the German Reichstag on April 30, 1945. Known as the Victory Banner, this piece of fabric has come to symbolize Russian triumph, glory, and patriotism. Facsimiles are used in public ...

Three Cities After Hitler

Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders

By Andrew Demshuk

Winner, 2023 SAH Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award Three Cities after Hitler compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of postwar development under three competing post-Nazi regimes: Frankfurt in capitalist West Germany, Leipzig in communist East Germany, and Wrocław (formerly Breslau) in communist Poland. Each city was rebuilt according ...