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Stan was aged 15 when war broke out. Over a period of 5 years, he dodged death as he travelled thousands of kilometres from Poland to the UK, via Soviet gulags, Uzbekistan, the Middle East and India. He then trained as a paratrooper in Scotland. He met a local girl and was going to get married, but had to leave her behind when he was dropped into battle at Arnhem. He was trapped behind enemy lines and captured by the Nazis. Only the Dutch underground might be able to help him escape.

Quando Joe Dunthorne si sposa, la madre gli regala un anello: un eliotropio nero screziato di rosso che, a detta della donna, era «scampato ai nazisti» nel 1935 - o forse no? A poco a poco, Dunthorne comincia a sospettare che le cose non siano andate esattamente come ha sempre pensato, e che la storia della sua famiglia ebreo-tedesca in realtà sia una narrazione creata ad arte per nascondere qualche segreto particolarmente scomodo.

The Life and Times of Joe I. Flynn by Sandra Flynn Camburn, narrated by Michelle Ochitwa and produced and published by Panda Publishing Agency, is an inspiring biography and memoir that chronicles one man’s extraordinary resilience through hardship, faith, and unwavering determination.

Die 50er Jahre: Zeit des Wirtschaftswunders und des Neuanfangs. Nachkriegskinder sind in etwa die Jahrgänge bis 1960 – in West und Ost. Ihre Eltern waren keine Kriegskinder, sondern haben als Erwachsene den Krieg mitgemacht, die Väter meist als aktive Kriegsteilnehmer. Nachkriegskinder hilft den Angehörigen dieser Generation, die Ungereimtheiten im eigenen Lebenslauf zu verstehen und für sich neue Ressourcen zu entdecken.

The astounding memoir of a World War II veteran who spent three and a half years in the slave-labor camps made famous by The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Loet Velmans was 17 when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman’s Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indies - now Indonesia - where he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of the Dutch soldiers. For the next three and a half years Velmans and his fellow POWs toiled in slave-labor camps.

Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the 20th century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and leading planner of the "Final Solution," Heydrich played a central role in Hitler's Germany.

Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. After serving as a gunlayer on a Pz.Mk.III during Barbarossa, he led a company of Tigers at Kursk. Later he led a company of King Tiger panzers at Normandy and in late 1944 commanded a battle group (12 King Tigers and a flak company) against the Russians in Hungary in the rank of junior, later senior lieutenant (from November 1944, his final rank). Only 489 of these King Tiger tanks were ever built. 

A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio...

Brought to you by Penguin. In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long...

"The Furhrer" delves into the complex and disturbing life of Adolf Hitler, a man who became synonymous with hatred and fear. Beginning with his early days in Linz, following his path through the Bavarian Army and the failed Putsch, and culminating in his death, the film seeks to understand the psychological trajectory of his descent into tyranny.

Este libro recopila el testimonio de cientos de combatientes de los cuarenta y cinco mil que formaron parte de la División Azul entre 1941 y 1943. A través de las palabras de los divisionarios, el lector va a poder conocer desde la intimidad del soldado la historia de la más singular campaña militar española del siglo XX. Una de las particularidades de la División Azul fue el alto nivel educativo de sus integrantes.

Ce livre retrace de façon exhaustive la vie hors du commun d'un médecin nazi particulièrement cruel, Josef Mengele. Soldat au service de Hitler à partir de 1940, c'est comme médecin qu'il entame sa funeste carrière de bourreau, en 1943. D'abord à Auschwitz, puis au camp des Tsiganes, et enfin à Birkenau, orchestrant des expériences atroces et souvent létales sur les prisonniers. À la fin de la guerre, commence pour Mengele une longue cavale qui va le conduire de tanière en tanière, depuis Munich jusqu'au Brésil, en passant par l'Argentine et le Paraguay.

Michela Ponzani ricostruisce la guerra combattuta, vissuta e subita dalle donne italiane tra il 1940 e il 1945, e indaga a fondo i meccanismi che portano alla degradazione della donna e del corpo femminile.

Brought to you by Penguin. The 2019 Costa Book of the Year and Biography Winner. How do you keep fighting in the face of unimaginable horror? Narrated by David Rintoul, this is the untold story of one of the greatest heroes of the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, after the Nazi...

Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Trained by the British as a Special Operations Executive, Pippa was lauded for her fluency with languages and her coding ability—both attributes she put to remarkable use as she posed as a teenage soap seller, often selling soap to the German soldiers, and sending back information via code to the UK.

Von der Aufstellung in Wismar an der Ostsee über Polen und Frankreich nach Russland schildert diese Chronik die ganze Härte der schweren Flak. Als Flugabwehr aufgestellt, müssen die Männer schnell erkennen, dass sie an vielen Frontabschnitten die Feuerwehr der Front sind. Schonungslos werden die erbitterten Kämpfe gegen Bunker, Panzer und den russischen Winter dargestellt. Die 3. Batterie der 1. Abteilung Flakregiment 61 durchlebt die Hölle des Krieges an ihren schweren 8,8 cm Kanone.

Le nom de Jean Moulin, sa figure sont devenus familiers à tous les Français. En ne parlant pas sous la torture, il a racheté les lâchetés de nombreux Français pendant l'Occupation. Mais qui était-il vraiment ? Pourquoi de Gaulle a-t-il décidé de faire de lui son représentant en France ? Était-il un sous-marin du Parti communiste, un agent soviétique ou américain ? Faut-il inscrire le tragique épisode de Caluire dans un combat fratricide ? Ce grand livre d'enquête de Pierre Péan, fourmillant de révélations, redonne à Jean Moulin une dimension humaine. Le héros était aussi un homme.

Legend: The Story of Witold Pilecki is a sweeping, immersive novel that traces the arc of a life lived in the crucible of war and oppression. From the embattled parlor of the Pilecki estate to the blood-soaked trenches of the Polish-Soviet War, from the clandestine cellars of occupied Warsaw to the unspeakable machinery of Auschwitz, this is the story of a man who chose to walk willingly into hell so that the world might know the truth.

SS Commander Reinhard Höhn was one of Nazi Germany's most brilliant legal minds, an archetype of the fervid technocrats that built the Third Reich. His story wouldn't be too different from that of other prominent Nazis, if not for the fact that the great majority of Germany's post-war business leaders were educated at his school. Is this a coincidence? Or is there a link between the forms of organization of Nazism and the principles of corporate management?

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The “compelling,” untold story of the man who captured and brought to trial Rudolf Höss—one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war criminals and subject of the Oscar-nominated film The Zone of Interest—“fascinates and shocks” (The Washington Post). May 1945...