When the spirit of an American airman befriends a Japanese woman and her daughter in the days before the Hiroshima bomb, he races against time to save the ones he loves the most.
A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II.
Escaping Hell is the compelling and true story of a heroic young Polish officer who survived the terror of five years in the prisons of Auschwitz and Buchenwald - where violence was meaningless because human life had lost all value.
This is the gripping story of how one man's half-century of service and devotion helped build and develop the Hastings & Prince Edward Regiment; and how that regiment played a vital role in Canada's efforts during the Second World War.
An Allied unit comprised of Canadian and American troops, the First Special Service Force or "e;Devil's Brigade"e; struck fear into the very heart of the Axis.
Many scholars have tried to assess Adolf Hitler's influence on the German people, usually focusing on university towns and industrial communities, most of them predominately Protestant or religiously mixed.
Now in its ninth edition, A History of Modern Germany provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of this complex country's history, beginning in 1871 and ending in the present day.
At a time of great sacrifice in Canadian history, we are welcomed into the homes, the hearts, and the minds of mothers, sons, fathers, and friends as we follow Syd Smith and his high-school brotherhood of 13 when they answer the call to duty in 1941.
In 1941, the fortress city of Terezin, outside Prague, was ostensibly converted into model ghetto, where Jews could temporarily reside before being sent to a more permanent settlement.
The involuntary soldiers of an unmilitary people such were the forces that American military planners had to pit against hardened Axis veterans, yet prewar unpreparedness dictated that whole divisions of such men would go to war under the supervision of tiny professional cadres.
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY KATIE KITAMURA'A work of visceral urgency and power' AMITAV GHOSH'Totally and shockingly alive from its very first paragraph' ALI SMITH, GUARDIAN'An extraordinary book' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHAgu is just a boy when war arrives at his village.
This study is the first to analyze both the Nazi party's membership development and composition, as well as the motives for joining and the exoneration strategies of former party members chosen during the denazification process.