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Diciassette mesi nascosti sottoterra: l'avventura di quarantasei ebrei nel diario di un ragazzo che sfuggì ai nazisti. Nei primi mesi del 1943 l'ombra della liquidazione incombeva sul ghetto di Drohobycz, una cittadina polacca ai piedi dei Carpazi. Gli ebrei scampati a due anni di occupazione nazista sapevano di essere condannati e cercarono di nascondersi in attesa dell'Armata rossa. Alcuni di loro, raccolti attorno alle famiglie Mayer e Schwartz, spesero le ultime risorse per costruire un bunker sotto una villa.

Il 15 marzo 1944, la ventiquattrenne Renata Laqueur venne deportata assieme al marito nel campo di concentramento di Bergen-Belsen, nella Bassa Sassonia, dopo aver già trascorso un anno in vari altri lager. I due rimasero a Bergen-Belsen fino all'aprile del 1945, quando furono liberati dall'Armata Rossa.

In the early hours of the morning of April 26, 1986, the nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine exploded, unleashing a storm of radioactive material into the atmosphere and contaminating most of Europe with its fallout. It was a disaster on an unprecedented scale.

This new edition of Yasmin Khan's reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis.

Unforgettable as it was, the public response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 was not without precedent. When her great-grandfather King Edward VII - glamorous, cosmopolitan and extraordinarily popular - died in May 1910, the political, social and cultural anxieties of a nation in turmoil were temporarily set aside during a summer of intense and ritualised mourning. In The King Is Dead, Long Live the King! Martin Williams charts a period of tension and transition as one era slipped away and another took shape.

Las modistas de Auschwitz cuenta la historia de las veinticinco mujeres y adolescentes, la mayoría judías, que en medio del horror absoluto del campo de exterminio de Auschwitz-Birkenau fueron seleccionadas para confeccionar ropa a medida para las damas de la alta sociedad nazi. Sus habilidades se convirtieron en su única esperanza de salvarse de una muerte segura en las cámaras de gas.

Das berührende Memoir und die einzigartige Biographie einer Shoah-Überlebenden, die sich bis heute gegen das Vergessen engagiert. Als junges Mädchen läuft sie unbeschwert durch die staubigen Gassen des kleinen ungarischen Dorfes, in dem sie mit ihrer Familie lebt. Bis sie eines Tages nach Auschwitz deportiert wird. Edith Bruck, eine der letzten Überlebenden der Shoah, blickt zurück auf ihre eigene Geschichte.

È stata una guerra particolare, forse destinata ad essere il prototipo di altre che potrebbero avvenire. Non solo una lotta fra stati o poteri economici per assicurarsi il mercato, ma un tentativo di imporre un diverso modo di concepire la vita dei singoli e delle comunità. L’8 gennaio 1945, con altri 480 prigionieri stipati in carri bestiame, Luigi Massignan iniziò la sua terribile esperienza come prigioniero nel campo di sterminio nazista di Mauthausen.

A “gripping” (Kati Marton, author of The Chancellor) historical investigation and family memoir that intertwines the iconic narrative of Anne Frank with the untold story of Bep Voskuijl, her protector and closest confidante in the Annex, bringing us closer to understanding one of the great secrets of World War II.

The tragic fate of the British airship R101—which went down in a spectacular fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later—has been largely forgotten. In His Majesty’s Airship, S.C. Gwynne resurrects it in vivid detail, telling the epic story of great ambition gone terribly wrong.

The liberal democratic order that seemed so stable in North America and Western Europe has become precarious. James E. Cronin argues that liberalism has never been secure and that since the 1930s the international order has had to be crafted, redeployed, and extended in response to both victories and setbacks.

Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous people, Mexican culture followed the Spanish colonial frontier northward and put its distinctive mark on what became the southwestern United States. Shaped by their Indian and Spanish ancestors, deeply influenced by Catholicism, and often struggling to respond to political and economic precarity, Mexicans play an important role in United States society even as the dominant Anglo culture strives to assimilate them.

War presents the most degraded moral environment humanity creates. Individuality is subsumed in collective violence, and humanity is obscured as a faceless, merciless enemy. A barbaric logic has guided the conduct of war throughout history. Yet as Cathal Nolan reveals in this powerful book, even as war can obliterate hope and decency at the grand level it simultaneously produces conditions that permit astonishing exceptions of mercy and shared dignity. Pulling the trigger is usually both the expedient thing and required by war's grim and remorseless calculus.

"100 Quotes by Jean Giraudoux" takes readers on a journey behind the scenes of one of the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. A novelist, essayist, diplomat, and playwright, Giraudoux’s work features stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy – during a time when the world was far from at ease. An ideal book for dipping in and out of, this must-read collection is ideal for history buffs looking to uncover the greatest thinkers of an unprecedented period. Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) was a French literary figure of immense might.

100 Quotes by Anne Frank is a poignant collection of thoughts and observations from the world’s most famous diarist. Touching, observational, and often funny, these quotes create a collage of a teenager whose world had been turned upside down. One of the most important documentarians of the Second World War, Frank’s views and feelings are both timeless and aligned with a darker chapter in humanity’s history. A fascinating and thought-provoking read, it's a great addition to any library.

Das Unheil nimmt seinen Lauf bei Kaffee und Kuchen. Karlrobert Kreiten, 27 Jahre alt, ein hochbegabter Pianist, verliert im März 1943 ein unbedachtes Wort gegenüber einer Freundin seiner Mutter: "Der Führer ist krank", der Krieg sei verloren. Sechs Monate später stirbt er am Galgen. Sein Schicksal steht im Mittelpunkt von Oliver Hilmes' Buch über das einschneidende Jahr 1943. In dem immer noch getanzt wird, auch wenn bei Stalingrad eine ganze Armee vernichtet wird und die Städte schon in Trümmern liegen.

The Jews of Biržai launches the listener swiftly into the pre-World War II life of Birzai, a town in northeastern Lithuania where Jews and their neighbors share the same desires for living quiet lives. Amid the growing winds of war, the Jews of Birzai are increasingly faced with the sudden contrast from normalcy to anxiety and fear, and finally to the resignation of betrayal, and the hopelessness and horror of an inevitable fate.

Soccer has been the world’s most popular sport for the last century, and an irresistible game for political and social leaders seeking shortcuts to the hearts of their people. Sometimes it worked, momentarily, but as renowned sports journalist Luciano Wernicke writes in this fascinating and original audiobook, the game and its glories have survived them all.

Jacobo Celnik ha navegado por las aguas turbulentas del pasado familiar para descubrir sus secretos y resolver los misterios que llevaron a los Celnikier a fragmentarse por cuenta del antisemitismo polaco y del horror del Holocausto.

The Spanish military coup of 1936 was launched to overturn the social and economic reforms of the democratic Second Republic, and its educational and cultural challenges to the established order. The consequent civil war was fought in the interests of the landowners, industrialists, bankers, clerics and army officers whose privileges were threatened. However, a central justification for a war that took the lives of around 500,000 Spaniards was that it was being fought to combat an alleged scheme for world domination by a non-existent ‘Jewish-Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy’.