Genocide and ethnic cleansing

Abgehört: Soldaten über die Innenwelt des KriegesWie sahen deutsche und italienische Soldaten den Krieg, das Töten, ihre Gegner, ihre Verbündeten, ihre Führung, die Judenvernichtung?

Die Nazis haben bereits vor Beginn des Ostfeldzuges gegen die Sowjetunion allein bei der Eroberung von Polen 2,5 Mio.

Auf beunruhigende Weise wird gezeigt, wie Tötungsbereitschaft erzeugt wird und wie wenig wir unseren moralischen Überzeugungen trauen können.

Eichmann vor Jerusalem räumt mit einer Fülle von Nachkriegslegenden und -lügen auf und enthüllt, wie der Menschheitsverbrecher Adolf Eichmann nach dem Krieg ein unbehelligtes Leben führen konnte - obwohl sowohl sein Aufenthaltsort als auch sein Deckname seit 1952 bekannt waren.

Nichts ist erfunden, kein Wort hinzugefügtJürg Amann hat die Aufzeichnungen, die Auschwitz-Kommandant Rudolf Höß vor seiner Hinrichtung niederschrieb, zu einem ungeheuerlichen Monolog verdichtet: Dieses Buch sperrt seinen Leser in den Kopf eines Massenmörders.

Erste deutschsprachige Untersuchung des NS-Täters Christian Wirth.

In this unforgettable and ';essential feminist memoir of women's lives' (Sarah Wildman, author of Paper Love) the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Perfection unearths her mother's hidden past in in Nazi-occupied Austria.

With some 200 million people affected by armed conflict or genocide, refugees are appearing in record numbers.

'Superb and timely' KATE MOSSE'Impressive, important, deeply moving' SARAH WATERS'Brilliant' ANTHONY HOROWITZWhat role could music play in a death camp?

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Nazis spared their lives because they were twins.

William Stone died on 10 January 2009 aged 108.

In April 1945 Rev.

Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942.

Adolf Eichmann was the operational manager of the genocide that dispatched six million European Jews to the gas chambers.

A remarkable series of over 200 eye-witness accounts taken from diaries, letters, speeches, interviews and memoirs of those who were there: pilots, sailors, generals, infantrymen, war correspondents and leaders.

In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything.

One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily ExpressIn the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, wartime leader Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard.

The impossibly moving story of how Judy, World War Two's only animal POW, brought hope in the midst of hell.

Few people know that Ypres, centre of First World War remembrance, was once home to a thriving British community that played a heroic role in the Second World War.

In February 1943, German forces surrendered to the Red Army at Stalingrad and the tide of war turned.

'This is the room from which I will direct the war,' Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940.

'Next to being a mother, I'd have loved to write books.

Gretel helped to protect fugitives hunted by the Gestapo, hid her Jewish doctor in her cellar and passed to the resistance secrets learned from her work on the Enigma encryption machine.

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.

'A masterpiece and deeply moving' - Alain de Botton'A wonderful piece of work' - Lynn Barber"e;.

Perfect for readers of Last Stop Auschwitz, The Volunteer and The Tattooist of Auschwitz'This is an extraordinary biography.

Toto Koopman, beautiful, mixed-race, bisexual Vogue cover girl in 1930s Paris and lover of the all-powerful press baron and wartime cabinet minister Lord Beaverbrook.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Why did I survive when so many others did not?

';This is the kind of book that haunts your dreams.

Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide?

Praise for Sunday Times No.

'Riveting.

*Longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize * Winner of the Bath Novel Award * Shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award *'What a writer.

A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World WarIn the spring of 1945, at Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batthyany gave a party in her mansion.

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'Oldfield's thoroughly researched and fascinating historical biography explores the lives of many of the 2,600 citizens who attracted Hitler's ire, ranging from high-profile entertainers and writers to those naturalised refugees who doggedly resisted the Nazis from afar' - ObserverIn 1939, the Gestapo created a list of names: the Britons whose removal would be the Nazis' priority in the event of a successful invasion.

WINNER OF THE MILITARY HISTORY MATTERS AWARD 'Hart is a historian and author at the peak of his powers' Richard van EmdenThe best way to understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to see it through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it.

It takes more than historical facts to help readers connect to a part of history that is so diabolical and devastating.

A boy writes home during WWII, revealing his own fascinating story, full of zest for life, information and humour.

The little boy did not cry or speak.

The Second World War was not the 'Good War' of legend.

Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers.

MERGEFIELD AI_Copy In 1933, Jews and, to a lesser extent, political opponents of the Nazis, suffered an unprecedented loss of positions and livelihood at Germany's universities.

In December 1941 the Japanese invaded Burma.