I need to find some sources for a project i am doing on the prisoner of war that the Japanese held during WW2. I am wondering if these sources i have count as primary or secondary, The emperors Irish slaves by Robert Widders, the naked island by Russel Braddon and Druim Craig ridge of clay ( contains an article from a newspaper on James Patrick Belford a man who died during the sinking of the Lisbon Maru). Any help you could help would be appreciated.

Did the barbarians not take an interest in them? Less corrupt officials? Weren't the Huns also much closer to Byzantium than Rome?

Edit: Perhaps a better way of phrasing it would be, what made Byzantium more stable?

This question has probably been asked somewhere in this sub, but I can't find anything on it.

So I know that both made similar errors and experienced relatively similar setbacks (underestimating the Russian forces, having poor logistics, ravaged by winters, etc.), but I am more curious about if the German High Command carefully analyzed Napoleon's 1812 invasion at all. Is there evidence that, while planning Operation Barbarossa, they were concerned about experiencing the same sort of failures that Napoleon faced? Did they discuss his failures and plan for such uncertainties (i.e. intentionally overestimating food requirements, operating on an assumption of decent Russian resistance, etc.) when they drew up their strategies? Did anyone chime in and say "this is a bad idea, look at what happened to Napoleon"?

Furthermore, since Napoleon held Moscow for a month and the Russians still refused to surrender, what made the German High Command so confident that bee lining towards Moscow and other major cities would result in a Russian surrender? Wouldn't Stalin just be able to move the Russian government and Red Army further into the countryside and wait for the Germans to starve?

Despite considerably outnumbering the Japanese (Wikipedia says 2:1 at 140,000 to 70,000) the allies were completely crushed. This seemed out of the ordinary for me since generally speaking the Allied troops were at least a match for the Japanese troops it most battles. was there some strategic plunder to explain this? were only shoddy divisions available to allies for the battle?

I have recently studied the Russian revolution but the books didn't really get into how the war helped sparked the 1905 revolution can anybody who has a passion for the subject help?

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What kind of person resisted conversion? Did they have anything in common? What were their motives?

Obviously, religion is a personal thing, and people's beliefs are not simply products of society, but I wondered if anything could be said about the influence of social factors.

I just read the fact about the collections of literature on Wikipedia. I imagine the connections between Persian and Sanskrit must have been well known, whereas similarities in Greek and Persian I'm guessing went largely unnoticed or were attributed to cultural osmosis (based on my shoddy knowledge of both), but what about Sanskrit and the Western Indo-European languages?

If not, what eventually spurred the PIE hypothesis in the West?

So Im new to this Reddit but I always that the Question why did France occupey Germany after WW2? France was occupied by Germany for about 4 years and it really was the USA, Britain and Soviet Union that defeated Germany. Countries like the Netherlands, Norway or Poland could also just occupy Germany if France occupied Germany.

In a lot of 1930s movies (Frankenstein for example), whenever people use high voltage machinery there is a lot of shorting out and electrical fires in it's operation - was this an actual problem at the time (from the vacuum tubes and such before circuits and circuit breakers), or was this just movie FX?

In 13th to 14th century England could cloth armour alone protect you from longbows and crossbows? Was it cheap enough that everyone could wear? How much material would be needed to make one?

Thanks in advance.

I want to write a short little biography about Ruth's baseball career and the stats he recorded with each of the professional teams he played with. However I can't seem to find exact numbers for the amount of minor league games that he played before joining the major league. Would any of you happen to know the amount of games he played during his minor league years?

I've tried googling this question but couldn't find anything about slavery after 1838. The Boers were upset with the outlawing of slavery by the British but did they continue it in their Republics and if so how long?

Surely longobardus was a Latin name that was adopted by scholars today and not actually what this Germanic tribe called themselves?

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Hi, I'm taking AP World History currently, (9th grade, absolutely LOVE IT) and made a kinda weird observation. I was scrolling through outlines of the time periods (In comments) and I saw that period one (around 9000 years) was a similar size to period two's (about 1200 years) and period 3 (only 850 years) was even longer! Is history I guess in a weird way, speeding up? Like more is happening in less time? The last time period is only 100 years and I know a TON happens in the 20th and so far in the 21st century. Is history "speeding up", and if so, why? Globalization? The internet? New technologies allowing faster communication (such as the internet)?