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During World War II, the Soviet Union sought to rally its people behind central figures and images. While Stalin was always at the front of these propaganda images, the Soviet government promoted war heroes to bolster the morale of the common Soviet citizen through newspaper articles, propaganda posters, and nationalist films that promoted the greatness of the Soviet Union through stories of the past and present. This work offers a brief history of propaganda use in the Soviet Union prior to World War II, citing the use of religious folk symbols and the emphasis on ordinary "extraordinary"...

The pursuit of German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic has long been considered one of the most exciting stories of World War II. This definitive study takes readers into the cockpits and onto the flight decks of the versatile and hardy U.S. escort carriers (CVEs) to tell of their vital, yet little-known contribution to the anti-U-boat campaign. Sailing apart from the Allied convoys, the CVE captains had complete freedom of action and frequently took their ships on -hunt and kill- missions against the enemy. The German submarines were allowed no respite and no place to relax without the...