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大宅賞、講談社ノンフィクション賞、ダブル受賞に輝いた感動ノンフィクション!敗戦から12年目に遺族が手にした6通の遺書。ソ連軍に捕われ、極寒と飢餓と重労働のシベリア抑留中に死んだ男のその遺書は

ソ連では第二次世界大戦で100万人をこえる女性が従軍し、看護婦や軍医としてのみならず兵士として武器を手にして戦った。しかし戦後は世間から白い目で見られ、みずからの戦争体験をひた隠しにしなければならな

基本コマンドは「走る」「叫ぶ」「飛び跳ねる」。防大卒の元・自衛官が汗と絶叫まみれの4年間を描く、 愛と笑いの防大エッセイ。

太平洋戦争末期に実施された”特別攻撃隊”により、多くの若者が亡くなっていった。だが、「必ず死んでこい」という上官の命令に背き、９回の出撃から生還した特攻兵がいた。その特攻兵、佐々木友次氏に鴻上尚史氏が

「日本が戦争に巻き込まれる日」は果たして来るのか―――。ニュースやワイドショーでおなじみ、我が国きっての安全保障の第一人者、防衛研究所室長・高橋杉雄が語り尽くす！

The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the Bushido code.    

広島に原爆が落とされたのは、1945年８月６日でした。11歳の米澤鐡志さんは、爆心から750メートルの電車内で母親と一緒に被爆します。

1994年5月、大阪市東淀川区に住む大屋隆司の父親・横山道雄が突然、失踪した。この失踪騒ぎの後、みるみる衰弱していく父を看病する中で、隆司はこれまで知らなかった父の過去を知る。

Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story. It relates how Anne, her family, and their friends hid in secret rooms - "the Annex" - in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months. Anne, just 13 when the family moved in and only 15 when the Gestapo at last broke down the doors of her secret world, found hope where there was only fear and the first blush of love when outside and all around there washed a sea of hate.

This illuminating study explores the ways in which the shattering defeat of the Japanese in World War II, followed by over six years of American military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society. The author describes the countless ways in which the Japanese met the challenge of "starting over", from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes, fears, and activities of ordinary men and women in every walk of life.

This revolutionary audiobook contains copies of two letters, top secret military transcripts and notes from the late Matilda O'Donnell MacElroy, an army air force nurse at the Roswell Army Air Field 509th Bomb Group in 1947. In her letters, she asserts that the transcripts are an exact recording of a series of interviews she conducted with an extraterrestrial being as part of her official duty as a flight nurse in the US Army Air Force.

In the fall of 1941, as the situation for Jews worsens across Europe, Ibolya (Ibi) Grossman learns she is pregnant. She is scared and confused–a baby during wartime? But her husband, Zolti, assures her, “We need this baby, you will see.”

Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrived in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which took both of their parents. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto was fresh in their minds, as were their fragile hopes to be adopted.

Nate Leipciger, a thoughtful, shy eleven-year-old boy, is plunged into an incomprehensible web of ghettos, concentration and death camps during the German occupation of Poland. As he struggles to survive, he forges a new, unbreakable bond with his father and yearns for a free future. But when he is finally liberated, the weight of his pain will not ease, and his memories remain etched in tragedy.

Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice Roosevelt Longworth once remarked that if her Auntie Bye had been a man, she would have been the president. Anna Roosevelt Cowles was Theodore Roosevelt's older sister by almost four years. She was nicknamed Bamie as a child. Her siblings, nieces, and nephews later called her Auntie Bye because she was always on the go. After overcoming a childhood disability, Bamie grew into a tower of strength for her immediate family and supported them throughout her life, especially after her father passed away. She also assisted her extended family at every opportunity.

"Shots Fired in Anger" by Lt. Col. John George is a compelling memoir and technical analysis from the front lines of the Burma campaign during World War II. Drawing upon his personal experiences, George provides an insightful narrative that offers a detailed look at the challenges and realities of combat against the Japanese forces. Not merely a collection of war stories, the book stands out for its in-depth evaluation of the small arms and weaponry used in the conflict, blending historical significance with technical expertise.

On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter.

From the bustling city of Paris to the quaint, countryside village of Champlost, France, Where Courage Lives follows ten-year-old Muguette Szpajzer and her family as they sought refuge from the war.

Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times best sellers including Talking to Strangers and host of the podcast Revisionist History, uses original interviews, archival footage, and his trademark insight to weave together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in Central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard. As listeners hear these stories unfurl, Gladwell examines one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.

The Mystery of the Casement Ship recounts one of the most extraordinary and explosive episodes of the Irish Easter Rising. In 1916, working with the Irish revolutionary Sir Roger Casement, Germany sent a captured British merchant ship disguised as a Norwegian tramp steamer named the Aud to Ireland to deliver guns and ammunition to rebels planning the Easter uprising.