Abgehört: Soldaten über die Innenwelt des KriegesWie sahen deutsche und italienische Soldaten den Krieg, das Töten, ihre Gegner, ihre Verbündeten, ihre Führung, die Judenvernichtung?
Hitlers Charisma – Wie die NS-Propaganda den deutschen Messias schufDer renommierte Historiker Ludolf Herbst wirft in seinem Sachbuch Hitlers Charisma ein neues Licht auf die Entstehung des Hitler-Mythos.
Ein Labyrinth voller GeheimnisseBarcelona in den turbulenten Jahren vor dem Bürgerkrieg: Der junge David Martín fristet sein Leben als Autor von Schauergeschichten.
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.
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.
'Superb and timely' KATE MOSSE'Impressive, important, deeply moving' SARAH WATERS'Brilliant' ANTHONY HOROWITZWhat role could music play in a death camp?
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.
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEThe acclaimed bestselling classic of Holocaust literature, adapted into the award-winning film Schindler's List'One of the world's greatest writers' Spectator'Extraordinary' Graham Greene'Powerful' The Times'Marvellous' Sunday TimesIn the shadow of Auschwitz, as thousands faced death in Nazi-occupied Poland, an unlikely saviour emerged.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
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.
