" Holocaust survivor Harry Gordon recalls in brutal detail the anguished years of his youth, a youth spent struggling to survive in a Lithuanian concentration camp.
Richard Lukas's book, encompassing the wartime recollections of sixty "ordinary" Poles under Nazi occupation, constitutes a valuable contribution to a new perspective on World War II.
Americans are familiar with prisoner of war narratives that detail Allied soldiers' treatment at the hands of Germans in World War II: popular books and movies like The Great Escape and Stalag 17 have offered graphic and award-winning depictions of the American POW experience in Nazi camps.
As World War II recedes from living memory, there remain untold stories of important behind-the-scenes operatives who provided vital support to the leaders celebrated in historical accounts.
On June 22, 1941, Germany launched the greatest land assault in history on the Soviet Union, an attack that Adolf Hitler deemed crucial to ensure German economic and political survival.
Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the US Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War.
In 1941 Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs) was deported from his Polish village and remained a prisoner of the Reich until the final days of the war.
Traditional histories of the hard-fought Battle of the Bulge routinely include detailed lists of the casualties suffered by American, British, and German troops.
In 1941 Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs) was deported from his Polish village and remained a prisoner of the Reich until the final days of the war.
Thousands of cargo ships sailed in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters of World War II manned by young men who braved blockades, torpedoes, and bombings to deliver vital supplies to the Allied forces and make victory possible.
This powerful work tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, the Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
Told through interviews with his son, Jewish watchmaker Harry Lenga's extraordinary memoir of endurance, faith, and a unique skill that kept three brothers togetherand aliveduring the darkest times of World War II.
From bestselling and award-winning war reporter Damien Lewis and for fans of Erik Larsen's The Splendid and Vile and Alex Kershaw's The Forgotten 500 comes a thrilling account of one of the most daring raids of WWIIthe true story of the race to stop Hitler from developing a top-secret weapon that would change the course of history.
A PEN America Literary Award FinalistA Goodreads Choice Awards NomineeAn Amazon Best of the Year SelectionThe untold story of some of WW2's most hidden figures and the heartbreaking tragedy that unites them all.
The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem by an Israeli court electrified the world.
Nyokodō, el «lugar del amor a uno mismo», es una pequeñísima cabaña de madera de tan solo cuatro metros cuadrados, construida en el corazón del barrio de Nagasaki reducido a cenizas por la bomba atómica.
The Agony of Greek Jews tells the story of modern Greek Jewry as it came under the control of the Kingdom of Greece during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This volume contains thirteen selected papers from the seventh international 'Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference', held in London in January 2023.
Alan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love.
Volume two in this "e;expert, anecdote-filled, thoroughly entertaining"e; history of WWII follows The Rise of Germany as the Allied forces turn the tides (Kirkus).
A Private Treason is the memoir of a courageous German woman who, as a girl of nineteen from an upper-middle-class Gentile family, rejected Nazism completely and gave up her language and her country forever.
This ';lively and action-packed account' of the infamous Gran Sasso raid chronicles the Nazi paratrooper operation that freed Mussolini (WWII History).
Luchino Visconti's trilogy of films Ludwig, Death in Venice and The Damned explore the complex relationship between the themes and ideals of German Romanticism and their impact on the catastrophe of the Third Reich.
