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A vivid stoker's-eye view of life in a submarine during the Second World War. The perfect World War Two memoir for people who enjoyed the works of James D. Hornfischer, Robert Leckie, and Laura Hillenbrand. In 1939, at the age of twenty, Sydney Hart joined the Royal Navy as a stoker. Over the...

In the shadowed cells of Nuremberg Prison, twenty-two men awaited judgement for history's greatest crimes. Stripped of their uniforms, power, and myth, the architects of the Third Reich faced something more intimate than the tribunal: the searching gaze of American psychiatrist Douglas M. Kelley, M.D. What he discovered was not the comforting legend of pure madness or demonic uniqueness.

From Pearl Harbor to VE Day is the personal World War II memoir of Francis Gerrit Veldman, a young man from Muskegon, Michigan, whose Army service carried him from training camps in the United States to North Africa, Italy, France, and finally home just before Victory in Europe Day. Written in his own plainspoken voice, Veldman recalls enlistment, troop trains, searchlight duty, wartime travel, military friendships, danger, humor, homesickness, and the strange turns that carried him from the Coast Artillery to infantry service near the end of the war.

Als Intimus Hitlers, Propagandaminister und Bevollmächtigter für den totalen Kriegseinsatz war Joseph Goebbels eine der zentralen Gestalten des Dritten Reiches. Kindheit und Jugend sind für Ralf Georg Reuth der Schlüssel zum Verständnis des Mannes, der aufgrund eines körperlichen Makels schon früh zum Außenseiter gestempelt wurde und einen beinahe krankhaften Ehrgeiz entwickelte, um seinen Minderwertigkeitskomplex zu kompensieren.

WWII began with a metallic roar as the German Blitzkrieg raced across Europe, spearheaded by the most dreaded weapon of the 20th century: the Panzer. No German tank better represents that thundering power than the infamous Tiger, and Otto Carius was one of the most successful commanders to ever...

In 1939, the world was dragged into the most devastating conflict in human history. Empires collapsed. Entire cities burned. Tens of millions of people would never return home. World War 2: A Complete History of WWII and Its Enduring Legacy takes you on a sweeping journey through the conflict that reshaped the modern world. From the lightning strikes of Blitzkrieg in Europe to the brutal island battles of the Pacific, this audiobook explores the war through strategy, politics, and the lives of the people who endured it.

A tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American...

Im Frühjahr 1945 wirkten sie als Statisten im letzten Kapitel des untergehenden Nazi-Reiches mit. Sie waren Teil einer «Kinderarmee», Hitlers letztem Aufgebot. In einem «Reichsausbildungslager» (RAL) der Hitlerjugend im südmährischen Bad Luhatschowitz waren die 16- und 17-jährigen in Schnelllehrgängen zu Soldaten geschliffen worden, zusammen mit über 1000 Gleichaltrigen.

Imagine you learn that there are kids your age living in a prison with their families. None of them have done anything wrong. It is racial prejudice and fear that has put these people there. Then imagine that your family volunteers to live in one of these places to help the people who are imprisoned. That is what twelve-year-old Helen Hannan experiences in 1945. She hears about these prisons before most other Americans do. Traveling to a place called Camp Amache with her brother, sister and parents, she quickly discovers this is no summer camp.

Robert Ley war Reichorganisationsleiter der NSDAP und baute die Deutsche Arbeitsfront zum größten NS-Verband auf. Nach dem Krieg war er im Nürnberger Prozess einer der 24 Hauptangeklagten. Sein Enkel Axel Spilcker erzählt nun die Lebensgeschichte seines Großvaters und die seiner Familie. Einem Urteil in den Kriegsverbrecherprozessen entzieht sich Robert Ley 1945 durch Selbstmord. Achtzig Jahre später, in einer Zeit, in der die Demokratie wieder unter Druck steht, macht sich sein Enkel auf Spurensuche.

Yrjö Ylisirniö syntyi Posiolla ja osallistui talvi- ja jatkosotaan (1939–44). Hän taltioi sotakokemuksensa C-kasetteille 90-luvun alussa. Hänen tarkoituksensa oli myös kirjoittaa kirja kokemuksistaan. Kirja jäi kuitenkin tuolloin kirjoittamatta. Minä, hänen tyttärensä Anne Ylisirniö-Kemppanen, päätin kirjoittaa isäni kertomusten perusteella tämän kirjan mahdollisimman totuuden mukaisesti. Kirja kertoo myös ajasta ennen sotia ja se sisältää paljon kuvamateriaalia.

Un témoignage rare, lucide et profondément humain sur l'une des pages les plus sombres de l'Histoire. En 1941, Benjamin Jacobs est encore étudiant en médecine dentaire quand il est déporté avec son père. Transporté dans plusieurs camps avant de terminer à Auschwitz, il ne doit sa survie qu'à sa trousse de dentiste. Son récit bouleversant raconte la faim, la peur et la mort mais aussi les gestes de solidarité et les instants de courage.

Major Peter Weaver's military career is remarkable for its breadth, from the Royal Tank Corps, to the infantry, but also as an engineer and on colonial and special operations. Hearing accounts of the rise of Hitler, he joined the Territorials. The outbreak of war saw him rapidly promoted...

A remarkable true story about saving life in wartime, not taking it The Lifesavers were a little-known band of men and women at the forefront of groundbreaking battlefield care in the Second World War. As part of a new and pioneering service, unconventional and iconoclastic, they pushed and...

В 38 лет Дженнифер Тиге, дочь немки и нигерийца, узнает, что она внучка нацистского преступника. Миллионы людей знают историю жестокого коменданта концлагеря из «Списка Шиндлера». Садиста, любившего ради развлечения расстреливать евреев с балкона виллы. Как Дженнифер, учившейся и несколько лет прожившей в Израиле, смотреть теперь в глаза друзьям, зная, что у каждого из них кто-то из родственников погиб в нацистских концлагерях, может быть, и в самом Плашове?

The audiobook is a biography of my parents lives during WWII while separated by the war during which my father was a Navigator on a B-17 flying bombing missions over Germany, The events that affected their lives when he was shot down, captured and a Prisoner of War of the Germans. The story emerges from letters they wrote each other and historical war telegrams and documents they saved from the war years.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A tribute to the female agents whose war in the shadows saved thousands of lives, this is the first-ever to tell the story of all 40 SOE female agents of F Section, including Nancy Wake The history of SOE's war in the shadows has been told many times...

Les grands stratèges américains de la Seconde Guerre mondiale se comptent sur les doigts d'une main. Les deux premiers sont incontestablement l'amiral Nimitz et le général MacArthur, le second étant de loin le plus excentrique et le plus flamboyant. En 1918, il est déjà général sur le front de France et accompagne les nettoyeurs de tranchées, ceint d'une écharpe mauve de deux mètres tricotée par sa mère et armé seulement d'une badine...

Between the 26th May and 4th June 1940, 338,226 men were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk, after having been surrounded by German troops during the Battle of France. 222 naval vessels and 665 civilian craft had continuously ferried between Dunkirk and the British coast, a miraculous landmark in modern history. This is their story. Their real story. Featuring stories told by Ernie Wiggins, Walter Sullivan, Alan Wayland, Tom Waldren, Wally Stokes and Dick Sharpe.

Winston Churchill became Great Britain's Prime Minister on 10th May 1940 after the country had finally lost all faith in the great appeaser, Neville Chamberlain and he went on to become a symbol of national unity throughout World War 2. This programme will be a lasting tribute and commemoration to the man who defined 'their finest hour'.