At a time when it’s all too easy to see history in black-and-white terms, historian Jacques R. Pauwels urges readers to let go of conventional history textbooks and re-examine historical events outside the bounds of conventional ideologies and agendas. Pauwels ...
Read More »Big Business and Hitler
For big business in Germany and around the world, Hitler and his National Socialist party were good news. Business was bad in the 1930s, and for multinational corporations Germany was a bright spot in a world suffering from the Great ...
Read More »The Great Class War 1914-1918
Historian Jacques Pauwels applies a critical, revisionist lens to the First World War, offering readers a fresh interpretation that challenges mainstream thinking. As Pauwels sees it, war offered benefits to everyone, across class and national borders. For European statesmen, a ...
Read More »The Myth of the Good War – revised edition
In the spirit of historians Howard Zinn, Gwynne Dyer, and Noam Chomsky, Jacques Pauwels focuses on the big picture. Like them, he seeks to find the real reasons for the actions of great powers and great leaders. Familiar Second World ...
Read More »Beneath the Dust of Time: A History of the Names of Peoples and Places
Battlebridge Publications, London & Colombo (Sri Lanka), 2009 Go to Battlebridge Publications Beneath the Dust of Time is an unconventional combination of history and the etymology of names. It was inspired and guided by two new paradigms. The first is ...
Read More »The Myth of the Good War: The USA in World War II
Paperback Was the role of the United States in the Second World War an essentially idealistic one, a crusading struggle to conquer the dark forces of German fascism and Japanese militarism? Was it an unequivocally “good” war? Historian Jacques Pauwels ...
Read More »Women, Nazis and Universities: Female University Students in the Third Reich, 1933-1945
Greenwood Press, Westport (Connecticut),1984 “Based on official government documents and extensive secondary literature, this book revises several old assumptions on the periods of peace and war. For the 1930s, Pauwels demonstrates that declining female university enrollments were caused neither by ...
Read More »