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“Sobering, unforgettable reading. This is a standout of its kind.” – Publishers Weekly “A riv­et­ing, deeply mov­ing mem­oir. The writ­ing is descrip­tive and dra­mat­ic, pre­serv­ing Lewkowicz’s deep emo­tions.” – Jewish Book Council This is the remarkable story of...

Bertram Ramsay has acquired almost mythical status in the history of the Second World War, firstly as the principal organizer of the Dunkirk evacuation and then as naval commander of the Allied invasion of Normandy - in the eyes of many, 'the organizer of victory'. But because Ramsay was killed in January 1945 and never wrote his own memoirs, his life has until now been difficult to pin down. Andrew Gordon, author of The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command, writing with the help of Ramsay's descendants, now describes the career of this intense and territorial man.

George MacDonald Fraser—beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels—offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the war’s final year, and he offers a first-hand glimpse at the camaraderie, danger...

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.

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.

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.

Brought to you by Penguin. This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top secret clearances. For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets, to...

Ein junger Soldat wird während des Zweiten Weltkriegs an die Ostfront geschickt. Was zunächst wie ein weiterer militärischer Einsatz erscheint, entwickelt sich zu einem erbarmungslosen Kampf ums Überleben. Seine Erinnerungen zeigen den Krieg aus der Perspektive eines jungen Menschen, der zwischen Angst, Kameradschaft und dem täglichen Überlebenskampf gefangen ist. Es ist keine Geschichte von Ruhm und Heldentum, sondern ein persönliches Zeugnis über die zerstörerischen Folgen des Krieges.

Manfred Görtemaker legt die erste grundlegende Biographie vor, die mit neuen Quellen einen außergewöhnlich präzisen Einblick in die Chefetage des NS-Regimes ermöglicht. Der Potsdamer Zeithistoriker Manfred Görtemaker hat fast zwanzig Jahre lang an dieser akribisch recherchierten Biographie gearbeitet. Erstmals konnte er ca. 4.100 Briefe und 50.

Am 19. April 1943 springt der elfjährige Simon Gronowski aus einem fahrenden Deportationszug nach Auschwitz. Es ist der 20. Transport aus der Sammelkaserne Mechelen mit mehr als 1.600 jüdischen Männern, Frauen und Kindern. Nur wenige werden überleben – Simon Gronowski ist einer von ihnen. Seine Mutter und seine Schwester werden in Auschwitz ermordet.

Verbotene Schlittenfahrten auf der zugeschneiten Dorfstraße, betrunkene Weihnachtsmänner und ein Pfarrer, der Frauen (durch Gebet natürlich) verschwinden lässt. Gerhard Fischer erzählt aus seiner Jugendzeit in Hitlerdeutschland, den Nachkriegsjahren und von seinen Erlebnissen als Pfarrer im Reisedienst. Ansteckend und fröhlich, nachdenklich und eindringlich berichtet er von Lebens- und Glaubenserfahrungen.

Poruszające wspomnienia Gitel Hopfeld o przetrwaniu w okupowanej przez nazistów Polsce. Autorka, razem z dwójką dzieci, opisuje swoje doświadczenia z wojennej tułaczki, podczas której ratowały ją nie tylko znajome, ale i zupełnie obce osoby. Jej relacja ukazuje bezprecedensową odwagę Polaków – sąsiadów, kolegów, nawet kapłanów – którzy, często ryzykując życie, pomagali rodzinie żydowskiej przetrwać najtrudniejsze chwile.

This autobiography is told through the eyes of a child growing into a teen from the last gasping thousand-year empire of Hitler into the equally evil government of East Germany, a life that had no normal childhood and a life of tears and fear and no future. Only being allowed to migrate to the US at age twenty-one changed the author's life.

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.

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...

1931 trat Albert Speer der NSDAP bei und avancierte zu einem der engsten Vertrauten Hitlers, 1942 wurde er Rüstungsminister und organisierte den »totalen Krieg« und die Vernichtungsmaschinerie. Dennoch behauptete er nach dem Kriegsende, kein Nazi gewesen zu sein – eine Legende, die der renommierte Zeithistoriker Magnus Brechtken eindrucksvoll dekonstruiert.

This WWII espionage biography brings "one of America's greatest spies back to life" in a "story of derring-do and white knuckles suspense" (Patrick O'Donnell, author of Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs) Virginia Hall left her comfortable Baltimore roots in 1931 with dreams of becoming a Foreign...

6 days, 13 hours and 37 minutes to go . . . At the end of The Prodigal Daughter, Florentyna Kane is elected President – the first woman President of the United States. At 7.30 one evening the FBI learn of a plot to kill her – the 1572nd such threat of the year. At 8.30 five people know all...

‘I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. I just thought that was it, the game was up . . .’ Downed airman Bob Frost faced danger at every turn as he was smuggled out of France and over the Pyrenees. Prisoner of war Len...