Genocide and ethnic cleansing

Willi Geismeier thought he'd faced the worst of humanity on the battlefield in World WarI, but when he returns to Munich he is drawn into an investigation that proves to be just as chilling.

The aerial clashes between the iconic Corsair and Zero-sen translated into a contest of speed and altitude for the former, versus the latter's outstanding agility and range.

A new narrative and analytic history of the twenty U.

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Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was journalist James "e;Jimmie"e; Matsumoto Omura.

Formed in 1940 the Long Range Desert Group was the first Allied Special Forces unit established to operate behind German and Italian lines in North Africa.

'The literary VC goes to without doubt to Max Hastings for his Das Reich .

Le XXe siècle, siècle des génocides ?

This anthology brings together eight chapters which examine the life of Jews in Southeast Europe through political, social and cultural lenses.

This is the story of how the Second World War affected leisure boating: of the people who managed to overcome huge difficulties to go sailing during the war itself and the difficulties of re-establishing the sport in post-war years; of the sailing and yacht clubs which survived bombings, requisitioning, shortages and a host of other problems, and still thrive today.

Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore.

From the North African desert to the bloody stalemate in Italy, from the London blitz to the D-Day beaches, a group of highly courageous and extremely talented American journalists reported the war against Nazi Germany for a grateful audience.

Jochen Klepper (1903-1942) gehört zu den wichtigsten christlichen Schriftstellern des 20.

Explores Auschwitz's construction, revealing architectural plans and documents that expose the SS's role in orchestrating genocide.

'This riotous and engaging biography has it all'GUARDIAN'As much fun to read as a good political thriller'WALL STREET JOURNALThe book that inspired the major documentary Edward vs George: The Windsors at WarAt the outbreak of war, the British monarchy was in turmoil.

An abridged edition of Saul Friedlander's definitive two-volume history of the Holocaust: THE YEARS OF PERSECUTION and THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION.

On the morning of 24th February 1944 following a devastating Luftwaffe raid, Donald Wheal and his family were homeless refugees with bulging suitcases and faces blackened by soot blast.

Torturés, suicidés, fusillés, exécutés sommaires, déportés.

This remarkable and very rare memoir discusses the bloody combat history of the Texas National Guard 36th Infantry Division in World War II, from pre-embarkation training through the capture of Rome.

The wartime airfi eld at Rivenhall is typical of the many airbases that were hastily built in Britain following the entry of the US into the Second World War.

"e;The authors offer a very different perspective on this campaign and are very frank in their assessment of the performance of the Allies and Germans on many levels.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, BY THE AUTHOR OF UNLEASHED'A stunning tour de force' - Sunday Telegraph'Genuinely clever.

Decades have passed since World War II, yet the myth that all Germans were Nazi sympathizers still persists.

From 1940 to 1942, French secret agents arrested more than two thousand spies working for the Germans and executed several dozen of them-all despite the Vichy government's declared collaboration with the Third Reich.

Many books have been written about the Second World War and the majority of them either concentrate on a particular battle, campaign or unit.

This book is a frank and hopeful meditation on the recurring tragedy of genocide that should be read by anybody who cares about its prevention.

One of the most devastating portraits ever drawn of a human society - life in Hitler's Germany during the Third ReichThe Nazis developed a social system unprecedented in history.

In twentieth-century Germany, Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer rose to prominence as a brilliant physical chemist, even as several of his relatives-Dietrich Bonhoeffer among them-became involved in the resistance to Hitler, leading to their executions.

Irene Levin Berman was born, raised, and educated in Norway.

When originally published in 1985 this was the first detailed study of business in Nazi Germany.

Holocaust education is a rapidly evolving and controversial field.

A beautifully illustrated study of the dramatic British/German clash in the North Sea that resulted in the sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst.

During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, US Navy dive bomber pilot Wade McClusky proved himself to be one of the greatest pilots and combat leaders in American history, but his story has never been told until now.

Winner: Jakobczak Memorial Book AwardFrom 19421945 the Allies war in the Southwest Pacific was effectively a bilateral coalition between the United States and Australia under the command of General Douglas MacArthur.

The incredible true story of one mans escape from Nazis in Norway.

In this gripping, unusual volume, insight into the Battle of the Bulge is told through firsthand accounts by German officers.

This up-to-date history by leading German aviation specialist Robert Forsyth reveals what it was like to pilot the 'long-nosed' Dora in combat as Germany desperately battled to remain in the war.

This is the captivating story of the four Raw brothers, all of whom served with the Royal Air Force.

';Entertaining historyDonovan was a combination of bold innovator and imprudent rule bender, which made him not only a remarkable wartime leader but also an extraordinary figure in American history' (The New York Times Book Review).

`We Can Take It!

World War II was the largest and most costly conflict in history, the first true global war.

Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West s greatest secrets.

The remarkable story of Holocaust survivors in the American zone of occupied Germany.

Now the subject of the Netflix documentary The Devil Next DoorThe incredible story of the most convoluted legal odyssey involving Nazi war crimesIn 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk.

While much has been written about the Battle of Britain, the air war over France and the Low Countries from September 1939 to June 1940 has been largely neglected - until now.

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On 8 March 1941, a 27-year-old Jewish Dutch student living in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam made the first entry in a diary that was to become one of the most remarkable documents to emerge from the Nazi Holocaust.

Juliet Gardiner's critically acclaimed book - the first in a generation to tell the people's story of the Second World War - offers a compelling and comprehensive account of the pervasiveness of war on the Home Front.

When Prussian soldier Fritz Oppenheimer left the World War I battlefield with two Iron Crosses, he could never have imagined that the pinnacle of his military career would come 27 years later at the German surrender in World War II, when he took top Nazi leaders into captivity and interrogated Wilhelm Keitel, head of the Wehrmacht.