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On a pitch-black night in September 1943, a daring Australian commando unit launches a covert raid on Singapore Harbour, sinking and damaging numerous Japanese ships. Operation Jaywick - an epic that passed into Australia's national legend - sets in motion a brutal crackdown by Japan's dreaded...

אבא בא בריצה למחסן. 'סלקציה', אמר. ידעתי את פירוש המילה הזאת. אוספים את כל האנשים במקום אחד. בחצר סגורה, למשל. ואז כולם יוצאים אחד-אחד דרך השער. שם עומדים הגרמנים ובעל...

פחות מחודש לפני שפרצה מלחמת העולם השנייה, נשא אדולף היטלר נאום לפני הרייכסטאג. שם קבע הדיקטאטור כי אם תפרוץ מלחמה כוללת באירופה יהיה זה באשמת היהודים (כמובן!)...

השתתף במצעד הספרים תשע"ד הנקה הסתכלה על הבנין והמחשבות התרוצצו בראשה: 'מי הם האנשים שגרים פה? האם יהיו נחמדים אלי? כמה זמן אשאר כאן?' לבה הלם בחזקה. הדודה מארי הקישה...

"הסיפור מבוסס על דברים ששמעתי מפיו של יורם פרידמן, שהיה בן חמש כשהגרמנים כבשו את פולין בפרוץ מלחמת העולם השנייה, והיה בן שמונה כשנשאר לבד בעולם בעיצומה של המלחמה...

מה חושב ילד החי בימי המלחמה בורשה הפולנית על היהודים הסגורים בצד השני של חומת הגטו? מה מבין מריאן ומה הוא מרגיש כשעליו לעזור לאביו החורג להבריח מזון דרך נקבות...

אם יקרה לי משהו, אז האיש הזה, אנטון קינצלה, הוא האחראי למותי. אמר הפושע הנאצי הרברטס צוקורס לאשתו ערב נסיעתו לאורוגוואי למפגש עסקי עם קינצלה, גופתו של צוקורס, מי...

What does it mean to live under the boot of an occupying army? Not as a soldier, not as a politician, but as a mother, a student, a shopkeeper, or a child—trying to survive while your world is dismantled around you. In Occupied: The Horrors Of Civilian Life Under Nazi Rule, historian Cyril Marlen offers an unflinching and deeply human account of what it was like for ordinary people trapped beneath the Nazi regime during World War II.

«Ordine compagni!» è la frase che risuona tra i cordoni di manifestanti incaricati di salvaguardare la compattezza e la sicurezza del corteo. È il Sessantotto, si aprono gli anni delle rivolte e delle stragi; quelli passati alla storia come "anni di piombo", solcati dalla paura e dalla voglia di cambiare il mondo, dal desiderio di riscatto e dalla lotta politica. Il Servizio d'ordine si identifica quindi come il braccio armato che coordina e protegge studenti e operai scesi in piazza, i rivoluzionari, i ribelli, i sognatori.

The Great Depression was a period of severe economic suffering in the United States that lasted from 1929 to 1941. It was the country's longest and most severe economic downturn in history. The book describes the events and conditions that led to the Great Depression and the long-term consequences it had on generations of Americans. This book is an excellent resource for anybody interested in learning more about this pivotal period in American history. The book takes an in-depth look at the individuals and places touched by this tragic event.

Ein Junge stößt beim Schlittschuhlaufen auf einen Toten im Eis und den Beginn einer sonderbaren Geschichte. Kern, ein schwerreicher Erbe, kann nicht länger ignorieren, dass seine Augen schwächer werden. Da ist Kerns hundertjährige Mutter, die den größten Teil des Tages im Dachgeschoss der Villa im Bett liegt, und doch mit brutaler Konsequenz die Fäden in der Hand hält.

The Fall of the Reich: The Final 100 Days tells the harrowing and historically rich story of how the Third Reich unravelled during its final, desperate months between January and May 1945. What was once a seemingly invincible Nazi war machine had by 1945 become a hollow shell—crumbling under the weight of defeat, dissent, and destruction. From the failed final offensive in the Ardennes to the thunder of Soviet artillery at the gates of Berlin, this book tracks the intense and often chaotic events that sealed Hitler’s fate and reshaped the modern world.

During the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese state sought to eradicate religious life throughout the country. But by 1978, two years after the death of Mao Zedong, the Communist Party under Deng Xiaoping cautiously embraced the revival of religion. At the same time, the newly elected Pope John Paul II made a point of renewing outreach to China. Paul P. Mariani tracks the fate of Chinese Catholicism in the wake of these transformative leadership changes, focusing on the influential Catholic community in Shanghai.

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 THE WASHINGTON POST’S 5 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2025 THE ATLANTIC’S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025 THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 TIME MAGAZINE’S BEST BOOKS...

At the eve of the Second World War, an estimated 1.6 million Jewish children lived in Nazi-occupied Europe. While 10,000 of them escaped to Britain in the Kindertransport, only some 500 found a new home in France. Here they attempted to begin again—but their refuge would all too soon become a trap. For the first time, Laura Hobson Faure brings to life the experiences of these children, and the Jewish and non-Jewish organizations who helped them. Drawing on survivors' testimonies as well as children's diaries, letters, drawings, songs, and poems, Who Will Rescue Us? recreates their journeys.

'Compelling' TELEGRAPH 'Such a compelling account of a small but significant dark corner of history... Profound, angry, and tender all at once' VIRGINIA FEITO, author of MRS MARCH 'An insightful, empathetic and well-researched account of a deeply fascinating and macabre true story' KATE MOORE...

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890-March 28, 1969) was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank as General of the Army. President Eisenhower delivered his first inaugural address on January 20, 1953.

Eight women. Thousands of children saved. Unforgettable stories of courage. They were teachers, nurses, students—ordinary women who made extraordinary choices. In the darkest days of World War II, they risked everything to save the most vulnerable: the children. Saving the Children of the Holocaust tells their incredible stories.

How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined by nineteenth-century imperialists? Neither, writes Georgios Varouxakis in The West, his ambitious and fascinating genealogy of the idea. "The West" was not used by Plato, Cicero, Locke, Mill, or other canonized figures of what we today call the Western tradition. It was not first wielded by empire-builders.

This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive...