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An eleven-year-old boy and his siblings fight for survival after the evil of the Nazi regime descends upon Poland. Time after time, they miraculously escape certain death as the murderous fascists attempt to make their hometown of Tluste Judenrein. Their luck seems to have run out when the Germans order to liquidate their work camp. Unexpected help comes from Timush, a man known for his terrible deeds against the Jews.

Nacido en Madrid en 1944, en una familia de periodistas, Juan Luis Cebrían pronto empezó a pisar las principales redacciones de la prensa de la época, primero la de Pueblo, luego la de Informaciones, donde fue subdirector con apenas 20 años, y también la de Cuadernos para el diálogo, cuyo espíritu fue un ensayo de la convivencia que haría posible la transición. Tras un fugaz paso por la dirección de informativos de RTVE, fue el primer director de El País, que pronto se convirtió en el periódico de referencia de España.

On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. In less than a month, a combination of ambition, deceit, fear, jealousy, missed opportunities, and miscalculation sent Austro-Hungarian troops marching into Serbia, German troops streaming toward Paris, and a vast Russian army into war, with England as its ally. As crowds cheered their armies on, no one could guess what lay ahead in the First World War.

Jason Sommer's father, Jay, is ninety-eight years old and losing his memory. More than seventy years after arriving in New York from WWII-torn Europe, he is forgetting the stories that defined his life, the life of his family, and the lives of millions of Jews who were affected by Nazi terror. Observing this loss, Jason vividly recalls the trip to Eastern Europe the two took together in 2001.

R. D. Hooker, Jr. was a combat soldier and leader in five wars. He then served as a senior Pentagon advisor and as a White House staff member in four different administrations. At the time of his retirement from the military in 2010, he was the most decorated colonel in the US Army. Beginning with his enlistment at eighteen in 1975, this memoir chronicles his experiences in the post-Vietnam Army as a young paratrooper, as a West Point cadet, and as a combatant in the many military conflicts which followed.

Protests continue in Belarus in the aftermath of 2020's fraught presidential election. In this updated edition of his exploration of Belarus's complicated road to nationhood since it gained independence in 1991, Andrew Wilson has added two new chapters that reveal the extent of Aliaksandr Lukashenka's grip on power, the growth of the opposition movement and the violent crackdown that followed the vote. Wilson also examines the prospects for Europe as a whole of either Lukashenka's downfall or his survival with Russian support.

Family lore had it that Bonnie Siegler’s grandfather crossed paths in Midtown Manhattan late one night in 1954 with Marilyn Monroe, her white dress flying up around her as she filmed a scene for The Seven Year Itch. Jules Schulback had his home movie camera with him, capturing what would become the only surviving footage of that legendary night. Bonnie wasn’t sure she quite believed her grandfather’s story…until, cleaning out his apartment, she found the film reel.

The history of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent civil war has been well documented in a number of books and documentaries. What has received far less coverage is an almost uncannily similar situation in Finland during the same time period. Starting in 1917, Finland was convulsed by a series of events that provided a direct parallel to those in Russia. The revolution, the civil war that followed, and the impact of the end of World War I all helped to define the modern state of Finland. This is the story of a forgotten conflict, its roots, and its impact on Finland and beyond.

Sami Modiano aveva solo otto anni quando è stato espulso dalla scuola. Abitava a Rodi, all’epoca territorio italiano, ed era in terza elementare. Il maestro non gli spiega il perché, gli dice solo di tornare a casa dal padre. Da quel giorno Sami smette di essere un bambino e diventa un ebreo. Con il padre Jakob e la sorella Lucia affronta le difficoltà delle Leggi razziali fasciste, fino al rastrellamento dell’intera comunità ebraica avvenuto nel luglio del 1944.

El siglo XX se erige como la edad de las ideas, un tiempo en el que, para bien o para mal, el pensamiento de unos pocos se impuso sobre las vidas de muchos. De una claridad y lucidez sin precedentes, el último libro de Tony Judt, uno de los más incisivos historiadores contemporáneos, está destinado a convertirse en un clásico del pensamiento moderno.

இந்தக் கதை 1962 இல் இமயமலைப் பகுதியில் நடந்த இந்திய-சீனா போரை அடிப்படையாகக் கொண்டது. 1959 முதல் 1962 வரையிலான இந்தியா, சீனா மற்றும் திபெத்தின் அரசியல் சூழ்நிலைகள் நாவலில் விவாதிக்கப்பட்டன.

இந்தக் கதை 1962 இல் இமயமலைப் பகுதியில் நடந்த இந்திய-சீனா போரை அடிப்படையாகக் கொண்டது. 1959 முதல் 1962 வரையிலான இந்தியா, சீனா மற்றும் திபெத்தின் அரசியல் சூழ்நிலைகள் நாவலில் விவாதிக்கப்பட்டன.

Peter Smith er en dansk forlagsmand, der har bosat sig i Miami, og stamgæst på The Compleat Angler, som Hemingway gjorde berømt. Her møder Peter Sally, en smuk amerikansk kvinde og sød musik opstår. Men næste morgen er Sally forsvundet... Samtidig finder man revisor Jørgensen myrdet på stranden. Og endnu et mord tæt på Sally bliver opdaget. Inden Peter når at se sig om, er også han truet på livet - en pistol peger direkte på ham. Steen Andersen (f.1946) er dansk forfatter, cand.mag. i engelsk og dansk og var i mange år underviser.

Under faderens sygdom genoplever den kvindelige fortæller sin barndom på landet i 1950'ernes og 60'ernes Danmark. En opvækst, der var præget af materiel tryghed, men også af ensomhed og længsel. Romanen er en beretning om et opgør med rollen som Den Gode Datter, og det at finde sine egne værdier og leve sit eget liv. Lone Andrup, født 1956 i Fredericia. Har rejst og arbejdet i Hong Kong og Italien. Cand.mag i dramaturgi og italiensk. Har skrevet børnebøger og skuespil, og debuterede i 1992 som romanforfatter.

Der er startet en ny pige i Jonnies klasse. Hun hedder Lotte og vil helst bare være for sig selv. Det er der ikke nogen, der kan forstå, og heller ikke Jonnie er i starten helt med på hvorfor. Men så lærer han Lotte lidt bedre at kende, og finder ud af, hvorfor hun holder sig for sig selv. Det er bare lidt ærgerligt, når nu Jonnie er gået hen og blevet forelsket i hende. Hans-Eric Hellberg (f. 1927) er en svensk forfatter, der har skrevet en lang række børnebøger, hvoraf mange er oversat til dansk.

Dr. Aribert Heim var en af Nazi-Tysklands mest berygtede og eftersøgte nazister. Som læge i koncentrationslejren Mauthausen udførte han grufulde operationer på raske mennesker og sprøjtede benzin ind i jødiske patienters hjerter - hans metoder kostede utallige menneskeliv. Efter Det Tredje Riges fald blev dr. Aribert Heim et af de mest eftersøgte mennesker i verden, men det lykkedes aldrig nazijægerne at finde ham og stille ham til ansvar for sine forbrydelser.

"På Slotsholmen" er beretningen om det politiske spil bag de lukkede døre. Hans Engell fortæller om dramatiske oplevelser, om skandalesagerne, om de politiske slagsmål - også bag scenen. Han går tæt på de centrale personer i dansk politik og besvarer spørgsmålet: Hvordan kunne Tamil-sagen få det katastrofale forløb, den fik? En veloplagt øjenvidneberetning fra en spændende periode i dansk politik. Hans Engell (f.

På den amerikanske landevej møder vi vietnamveteranen Howard Walker på flugt fra en mørk hemmelighed. Under køreturen gennem Trumps Amerika fortæller Walker sin livshistorie, om krigstraumer og om at gå i hundene - og om sin tid sammen med den verdensberømte protestsanger Philip Boothman i New York. Det var Boothman, der samlede Walker op, da han lå i rendestenen, og siden har Walker udført lyssky arbejde for den feterede og elskede sangskriver og levet i hans skygge. Brian Dan Christensen (f.

I denne dramatiske beretning skildrer modstandsmanden Aage Bertelsen sine oplevelser i forbindelse med de danske jøders redning i 1943. Bogen er udkommet i mange oplag, er blevet oversat til en række sprog og er en klassiker i litteraturen om jødeforfølgelsen og besættelsestiden i Danmark. "Jeg har læst denne bog med oprigtig beundring, dyb bevægelse og taknemmelighed.

I "Rundt om Annapurna" beskriver forfatter og litteraturforsker Knud Wentzel sine oplevelser fra sin vandring i Annapurna-bjergene i Nepal. I dagbogsfragmenter reflekterer han over stedet og rejsen som udtryksform. Knud Wentzel (f. 1941) er en dansk essayist, litteraturforsker og lektor ved Københavns Universitet. Knud Wentzel har de sidste mange årtier spillet en afgørende rolle på dansk litteraturforsknings scene. Knud Wentzel modtog Dansk Forfatterforenings H.C.Andersen Legat i 2015.

World War II rises in its vastness and complexity over the rest of human history. A number of victims difficult to conceive, never surpassed by any other conflict; the masses of men, women, and resources mobilized in a conflict that shook even the most remote ends of the planet; the ideological battle between totalitarianism and democracy, between fascism and communism, and the passions and hatred that it aroused; the unimaginable horror and fanaticism of the Holocaust; geopolitical games; the repetition of World War I on an even more dire scale.

As a child, Luiz Schwarcz knew little about his grandfather and namesake, Lajos. Only later did he learn that Lajos, a devout Hungarian Jew, had been put on a train to a Nazi death camp with his son André, whom he ordered to leap to freedom at a rail crossing while he himself was carried on to death. What young Luiz did know was that his father, André, who had emigrated to Brazil, was an unhappy and silent man. Luiz blossomed into the family prodigy, becoming a groundbreaking literary publisher. He found a home in the family silence—a home that he filled with reading.

A teenage girl, guilty only of being Jewish, is saved from the fate that awaits her family and hidden by her parents' Catholic friends—who pay the ultimate price for their bravery. So much was risked and so much lost but the legacy of their courage and trust lives on through the surviving generations. Now, at last, their story can be told . . .

Most popular accounts of the Holocaust typically cast Jewish victims as meek and ask, "Why didn't Jews resist?" But we know now that Jews did resist, staging armed uprisings in ghettos and camps throughout Nazi-occupied Europe. In Hope and Honor, Rachel L. Einwohner illustrates the dangers in attempting resistance under unimaginable conditions and shows how remarkable such resistance was. She draws on oral testimonies, published and unpublished diaries and memoirs, and other written materials produced both by survivors and those who perished.

I et kapløb for at bevise sine tekniske evner og med blikkene rettet mod verdensrummet, udkæmpede USA og Sovjetunionen Den Kolde Krig på himmelsk front. Kapløbet mod rummet begyndte da Sovjet opsendte Sputnik 1 i 1957. USA, som havde talt om at sende sin egen satellit op bare to år tidligere, begyndte at blive urolige for, at Sovjet ville anvende sine satellitter til et angreb. Derefter fulgte et kapløb, der skulle fortsætte indtil 1971, hvor Sovjet bemandede den første rumstation, Saljut 1, og relationen mellem landene aftog.

In this engaging narrative, historian Paul Kennedy grapples with the rise and fall of the Great Powers during World War II. Tracking the movements of the six major navies of the Second World War—the allied navies of Britain, France, and the United States and the Axis navies of Germany, Italy, and Japan—Kennedy tells a story of naval battles, maritime campaigns, convoys, amphibious landings, and strikes from the sea.

It's almost shocking to think that now, more than seventy years after the Nazi surrender in 1945, there is not a single volume that has attempted to unify the resistance movements that convulsed Europe during the brutal years of occupation. In her extraordinary work, Resistance, Halik Kochanski does just that, creating a prodigiously researched account that becomes the first to bring these disparate histories into a single narrative.

With war clouds gathering and harassment increasing, the stars of Continental opera, many of whom are Jewish, face dark futures under the boot heel of the Nazis. What can two middle-aged British spinsters do about such matters? They can form a secret cabal right under Hitler’s nose and get to work saving lives. The sisters conspire to bring together worldwide opera aficionados and insiders in an international operation to rescue Jews in the opera from the horrific fate that everyone intuits is coming.

Che cosa successe di preciso quel martedì 10 giugno 1924, quando il pestaggio e l'uccisione di Giacomo Matteotti segnò un punto di svolta nella storia d'Italia? Ma soprattutto, quale fu la concatenazione di eventi che portò alla sua morte, e quale la catena di comando che sancì l'esecuzione del delitto? Con precisione chirurgica e lucidità da poliziesco americano, questo saggio inquisitorio scava negli archivi dell'epoca e riporta alla luce i fatti, le affermazioni e i personaggi che gravitarono intorno a Giacomo Matteotti nei giorni che precedettero il suo omicidio.

En 1945 Europa se encontraba en sus momentos más bajos. Gran parte del continente estaba devastado por la guerra, los asesinatos en masa, los bombardeos y el caos. Amplias zonas de Europa del Este empezaban a caer bajo control soviético para cambiar un despotismo por otro. En la actualidad, la Unión Soviética ya no existe y las democracias europeas llegan hasta la frontera de Rusia.