*; A pivotal year of World War II through German eyes *; The campaigns of the German army, air force, and navy described by a master storyteller *; Covers the aftermath of Stalingrad, Kursk, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, the U-boat war, and air battles After a crushing loss at Stalingrad, the German war machine regrouped in early 1943 to stave off total defeat, but it could not stem the rising Allied tide.
Max Edelman was just 17 when the Nazis took him from his Jewish ghetto in Poland to the first of five work camps, where his only hope of survival was to keep quiet and raise an emotional shield.
A GRIPPING SURVIVOR STORY OF ONE FAMILY'S FLIGHT FROM BURMA DURING THE JAPANESE INVASION"e;As uplifting a testimonial to human courage as any to emerge from World War II.
In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'.
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, more than a quarter million Jewish survivors of the Holocaust lived among their defeated persecutors in the chaotic society of Allied-occupied Germany.
Poc després de morir la seva mare Dory Sontheimer va descobrir a casa seva set caixes amb fotografies, cartes, passaports i altres documents que li revelaven la seva identitat jueva i la dramàtica història de la seva família, víctima de la persecució nazi.
Hitlers Verhältnis zum Christentum war zwiespältig: Er bekämpfte es erbittert und sah sich trotzdem als strahlenden Nachfolger Christi, einen neuen Messias.
'A heart-warming tale about resilience, friendships and family, and the inestimable power of the written word' RUTH HOGAN'A heart-warming depiction of strong female friendships tested by suffering - Annie Lyons really is the queen of the wartime saga' CLARE CHAMBERSCan two young women and one book change the course of war?
This interdisciplinary collection of primary and secondary readings encourages scholars and students to engage critically with current debates about the origins, implementation and postwar interpretation of the Holocaust.
Devastating and compellingDAILY MAILPoignant TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT____________________________________________________________________________________________ The extraordinary story of Bep Voskuijl, Anne Frank's closest friend during the 761 days she spent in the Secret Annex.
'Ambitious, wide-ranging and learned' Times Literary Supplement 'Vivid and extraordinary' Wall Street JournalFrom Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of female fighters.
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2023A Telegraph, Times, Spectator and Prospect Book of the YearOne of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French historyFew images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than the photograph of Marshal Philippe P tain - the great French hero of the First World War - shaking the hand of Hitler on 20 October 1940.
From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls and GI Brides, this is Kathleen's story, one of three true accounts from the book The Girls Who Went to War.
**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that saved thousands of Jewish lives in World War Two.
The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra.
Eine wunderbare, 1944 mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnete Hommage an die amerikanischen Truppen im Zweiten Weltkrieg ist dieser Bericht über den Feldzug der Soldaten in Nordafrika.
In Spital am Pyhrn (Oberösterreich) war von 1943 bis 1945 in einem aufgelassenen Gasthof ein sogenanntes "fremdvölkisches" Kinderheim eingerichtet, betrieben von der "Nationalsozialistischen Volkswohlfahrt" (NSV).
Das Tagebuch der Thea Gersten, der späteren Thea Hurst, eingebunden in den Gardinenstoff ihres Leipziger Kinderzimmers, liegt über sechs Jahrzehnte in Theas Nachttisch-Schublade.
Simone Müller porträtiert 14 Jüdinnen und Juden sowie eine Zeugin Jehovas, die zwischen 1923 und 1942 geboren wurden und als Kinder oder Jugendliche Hitlers Terrorregime überlebten.
Groß – blond – blauäugig, so sollten sie aussehen, die Kinder, die in den Lebensborn-Heimen auf die Welt kamen, die der SS-Organisation übergeben wurden oder die in ihre Hände gerieten, nachdem sie verschleppt und zwangsgermanisiert worden waren.
Sie galt als »das schwarze Schaf der Familie«, doch unbeirrt ging Friedelind Wagner ihren eigenen Weg: Eva Rieger schreibt die erste Biografie der Enkelin Richard Wagners, die sich als Einzige des Bayreuther Clans zum Widerstand entschloss – gegen ihre Familie und gegen das Nazi-Regime.
An SS colonel goes underground at the end of WWIIEugen Dollmann was a scholar and member of the SS whose connections among Italian society led to a posting as a liaison officer attached to Mussolini during World War II.
In September 1979, at age fifty-six, writer and artist Arturo Benvenuti fueled up his motor home and set forth on what he knew would be an emotional journey.
In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace.
El meteórico ascenso al poder de Hitler, el férreo control ideológico que impuso en Alemania, su popularidad frente a las masas y la eficaz maquinaria bélica que puso en marcha constituyen aspectos de un proceso cuyo éxito dependió, en buena medida, del trabajo realizado por su círculo íntimo.
In 'Rilla of Ingleside' by Lucy Maud Montgomery, readers are transported to the captivating world of Ingleside, where they follow the coming-of-age journey of Rilla Blythe during World War I.
