検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦

This is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a best-selling novelist at the height of his powers, it is an exceptionally moving story that culminates in him having to personally shoot a number of wounded British soldiers who cannot be evacuated before their position is overrun by the Japanese. 

Viljapellot hiiltyvät mustiksi sata kilometriä etelään Neuvostoliiton Kursk-kaupungista. On vuosi 1943, ja puna-armeija on puolustautunut jo viikon saksalaisten panssarivaunujen rajuja hyökkäyksiä vastaan. Kurskin valtaus suoristaisi mutkan rintamalinjassa, joten Saksa on salassa valmistautunut motittamaan kaupungin. Samaan aikaan Neuvostoliittoa puolustaa kuusi linjaa miehiä: ensimmäisen kaatuneen sotilaan takana seisoo viisi uutta valmiina uhraamaan henkensä. Puna-armeijankin panssarikalusto on viritetty tuhovoimaiseksi. Kumpi voittaa maailman suurimman panssaritaistelun?

From a New York Times bestselling author comes an incredible true war story of an underage soldier who experiences his first love and loss on the battlefields of Bataan and Corregidor—perfect for fans of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz and Unbroken. Joe Johnson Jr. ran away from...

Listen to firsthand accounts of training and piloting B-17s and B-29s, Webster’s thrilling missions between Saipan and Japan, and the P-51s and P-47s out of Iwo Jima that flew alongside. Written from notes made in 1944 and 1945 and stored undisturbed in an Army-issue briefcase for over 60 years, this account was drawn from vivid memory and written during the seven-and-a-half-hour flights back home to Saipan after missions. This book puts you in the pilot's seat during one thrilling mission after another.

Stuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old, unblooded, fresh from a public-school background and Officer Cadet training. He was going to war. Two days later, his tank sunk, he and his crew landed from a rubber dinghy with just the clothes they stood in. After that, the struggles through the Normandy bocage in a replacement tank, engaging the enemy in a constant round of close encounters, led to a swift mastering of the art of tank warfare and remarkable survival in the midst of carnage and destruction. 

Saksalaissotilaat odottavat peloissaan vihollisen hyökkäystä Ranskassa vuonna 1944. He tietävät, että liittoutuneet hyökkäävät vielä jonakin päivänä, mutta on vielä arvoitus milloin ja minne. Lopulta Normandiassa, Ranskan pohjoisrannikolla alkaa tapahtua. Kuudentena kesäkuuta näkyviin lipuu satojen pienten maihinnousualusten joukko, ja taaempana siintää taistelu- ja kuljetuslaivoja, tykkejä sekä panssarivaunuja. Alkaa Normandian maihinnousu, yksi toisen maailmansodan verisimmistä ja keskeisimmistä taisteluista.

Taistelut repivät Pohjolaa vuonna 1939. Mikko Kallionpää on tiedusteluretkellä Suomen puolella itärajaa, kun hän kohtaa neuvostosotilaan silmästä silmään. Aseen piippu osoittaa Kallionpäätä kymmenen metrin päässä, mutta hän ehtii ensin. Laukaus on talvisodan ensimmäinen. Stalin on päättänyt vallata Suomen varmistaakseen selustansa. Toisaalla norjalaiset vastustavat Hitleriä, joka pyrkii hallitsemaan Norjan länsirannikon satamia turvatakseen rautamalminsaannin Ruotsista.

Hyytävä viima piiskaa sotilaiden kasvoja 2900 kilometrin pituisella rintamalla vuonna 1941. Hitler on antanut heidän tehtäväkseen valloittaa Neuvostoliitto, mutta rintamalla sääolosuhteet osoittautuvat pahaksi viholliseksi. Kylmyys kangistaa sotilaitten jäseniä ja hyydyttää aseet sekä ajoneuvot, eivätkä huoltolinjat toimi. Saksan nälkäiset joukot uhmaavat säätä ja etenevät kohti Moskovaa, jota Neuvostoliitto puolustaa säästelemättä sotilashenkiä. Luftwaffe pommittaa jo päämajoja.

Eletään vuotta 1940. Ranska on antautunut, Pohjola miehitetty, ja Iso-Britannia on Euroopan viimeinen toivo. Natsi-Saksan Luftwaffe on kuitenkin huimasti Britannian kuninkaallisia ilmavoimia edellä. Briteillä on vain joukko kouluttamattomia lentäjiä ja liian vähän lentokoneita, joilla on vaikea vastustaa maailman mahtavimpia ilmavoimia. Kumpi voittaa ilmaherruuden? Seuraa lentäjien huimia kaksintaisteluja kanaalin yllä ja tutustu sodan kokeneiden silminnäkijöiden kertomuksiin.

Liittoutuneiden saattueet kuljettavat varusteita Murmanskiin Jäämeren halki, mutta reitti on henkeäsalpaavan vaarallinen. Arktiset kuljetukset Neuvostoliittoon sisältävät kaikkea tarpeellista purkkimuonasta panssarivaunuihin. Kun Hitler määrää joukkonsa saalistamaan saattueita, iskuja torjuvat merimiehet joutuvat taistelemaan paitsi lunta ja jäätä, myös laivoja, sukellusveneitä ja lentokoneita vastaan. Millainen oli reitti, jota Winston Churchill nimitti maailman pahimmaksi matkaksi? Tapaa saattueissa olleita merimiehiä ja tutustu heidän kertomuksiinsa.

On helmikuu vuonna 1941. Saksalaiset ovat päättäneet tuhota jälleen yhden brittien sukellusveneistä. Saksa ja Iso-Britannia ovat kamppailleet vuosia Atlantin herruudesta, sillä Saksa haluaa estää saattueet, joilla liittoutuneet yrittävät auttaa brittejä. Tällä kertaa voitonvarmat saksalaiset merikapteenit yllättyvät karvaasti. Paljastuu, että eräs brittien taitavimmista sukellusvenekapteeneista on mukana suojaamassa saattuetta ja hänellä on vaarallinen ässä hihassaan. Yksi kaikkien aikojen hurjimmista meritaisteluista on alkamassa.

They were known as “Rudder’s Rangers,” the most elite and experienced attack unit the Army had. In December 1944, they would be the spearhead into Germany, taking the war into Hitler’s homeland at last. Their colonel was given this objective: Take Hill 400. After two days, when they were finally relieved, only 16 Rangers remained to stagger down from the top of Hill 400. The Last Hill is filled with unforgettable action and characters—a gripping, finely detailed saga of what the survivors of the battalion would call “our longest day.”

The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War – organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy. In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place – 106 Allied prisoners were freed from a...

Between dusk and dawn on the night of March 24-25, 1944, a small army of Allied soldiers crawled through tunnels in Germany in a covert operation the likes of which the Third Reich had never seen. The prison break from Stalag Luft III in Eastern Germany was the largest of its kind in the Second World War. Seventy-nine Allied soldiers and airmen made it outside the wire - but only three made it outside Nazi Germany. Fifty were executed by the Gestapo.

Thomas Kendrick (1881-1972) was central to the British Secret Service from its beginnings through to the Second World War. Under the guise of "British Passport Officer," he ran spy networks across Europe, facilitated the escape of Austrian Jews, and later went on to set up the "M Room," a listening operation which elicited information of the same significance and scope as Bletchley Park. Yet the work of Kendrick, and its full significance, remains largely unknown.

On May 2,1945, Red Army soldiers broke into Hitler’s bunker. Rzhevskaya, a young military interpreter, was with them. Almost accidentally the Soviet military found the charred remains of Hitler and Eva Braun. They also found key documents: Bormann's notes, the diaries of Goebbels and letters of Magda Goebbels. Rzhevskaya was entrusted with the proof of Hitler’s death: his teeth wrenched from his corpse by a pathologist hours earlier.

Als Wilhelm Brasse (1917-2012) mit 22 Jahren in das Stammlager Auschwitz eingeliefert wird, ahnt er nicht, dass er als gelernter Fotograf zum Dokumentarist des Grauens wird. Seine Aufgabe ist es, die KZ-Insassen zu fotografieren. Menschen, die kurze Zeit später in den Gaskammern umgebracht werden. Menschen, die von Josef Mengele zu "medizinischen Forschungsarbeiten" missbraucht werden und denen die Todesangst ins Gesicht geschrieben steht. Hätte er die Arbeit verweigert, wäre das sein eigenes Todesurteil gewesen.

The Boys of Winter tells the true story of three young American ski champions and their brutal, heroic, and fateful transformation from athletes to infantrymen with the 10th Mountain Division. Charles J. Sanders's fast-paced narrative draws on dozens of interviews and extensive research to trace these boys' lives from childhood to championships and from training at Mount Rainier and in the Colorado Rockies to battles against the Nazis.

Like many Americans, as soon as Vincent J. Riccio heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor, he wanted to enlist in the military. This memoir recounts his experiences in the United States Army Air Corps as an instrument technician, aviation cadet, and flight engineer in World War II. It describes his escapades during training and deployment, the missions flown over Germany, the fateful events that led to his captivity in Stalag Luft IV, and the long road home. It reflects his impressions of military service, the people he met, and the lessons he learned along the way.

Als Eberhard Dennerlein 1936 in das Pionierbataillon 47 in München eintritt, legt er damit den Grundstein für sein weiteres Leben. Er verpflichtet sich, lebenslänglich der Wehrmacht zu dienen. Vom Unteroffizier steigt er auf zum Offizier und ist zunächst mit dem Bau von Brücken beauftragt, um dem Vormarsch in Polen den Weg zu bereiten. Bereits mit Anfang zwanzig wird er zum Kompanieführer ernannt. Nach Einsätzen in Holland und später in Russland gerät er in russische Kriegsgefangenschaft.

'Brilliantly gripping' Sunday Times; 'Compelling' Daily Mail; 'Heart-rending' Sunday Telegraph; 'Excellent' The Times; 'Engrossing' Independent The UK's only war crimes trial took place in 1999 and had its origins in the horrors of the Holocaust, but only now in The Ticket Collector from Belarus?...

'A must read. Honesty, integrity and real experience that puts you in the thick of the action.' Billy Billingham There were three patrols that fateful January 1991 morning: Bravo One Zero, Bravo Two Zero and Bravo Three Zero. It was the opening hours of the Gulf War and the SAS were flown deep...

Lieutenant William Frederick “Bill” Harris was 25 years old when captured by Japanese forces during the Battle of Corregidor in May 1942. This son of a decorated Marine general escaped from hell on earth by swimming eight hours through a shark-infested bay; but his harrowing ordeal had just begun. Shipwrecked on the southern coast of the Philippines, he was sheltered by a Filipino aristocrat, engaged in guerilla fighting, and eventually set off through hostile waters to China.

When called up to fight in yet another World War, Drum Major Jackson promised his beloved wife, Mabel, that he would return to lead his band and play for her once more. In May 1940, he was captured at Dunkirk and interned in several German forced labour camps throughout Poland. Two years later, he was transferred to Auschwitz IV. When his captors appointed Jackson their ‘Kapellmeister’ (man in charge of music), he seized the opportunity to provide entertainment for his fellow prisoners at rehearsals and cover for escapees during concerts.

A stirring World War II combat story of how the legendary George Patton reinvigorated a defeated and demoralized army corps, and how his men claimed victory over Germany’s most-feared general, Erwin Rommel “Moore brings you to the battlefield and into the mind of a fearless military genius...

The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history’s greatest atrocities speak out about their lives, their careers in the Nazi Party, and their views on the Holocaust...

Seventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the greatest seaborne invasion in history. The outcome of the Second World War hung in the balance on that chill June morning. Giles Milton’s bold new history narrates the day’s events through the tales of survivors from all sides: the teenage Allied conscript, the crack German defender, the French resistance fighter. Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die lays bare the absolute terror of those trapped in the front line of Operation Overlord.  

Stephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us into the skies of World War II aviation, flying aboard the crowded and dangerous B-24 bombers as their crews fought to destroy the German war machine and secured Allied victory. The young men who flew the...

Admiral Bertram Ramsay may not be the most familiar World War II commander, but he was critical to the Allied victory. He orchestrated the dramatic evacuation of British expeditionary forces at Dunkirk, planned the invasions of North Africa and Sicily, and worked closely with General Dwight Eisenhower on Operation Neptune, the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy. In this magisterial biography, over a decade in the making, Andrew Gordon captures Ramsay’s complex, conflicted nature.

In the late summer of 1942, more than 10,000 members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. As American marines battled Japanese forces for control of the island, they were joined by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis. Only one of two civilian reporters to land and stay with the marines, Tregaskis’ notebook captured the daily and nightly terrors faced by American forces in one of World War II’s most legendary battles - and it served as the premise for his best-selling book Guadalcanal Diary.

A classic of WWII, this is the vivid memoir of Private Bowlby, who came through the North Africa campaign only to have to battle in bitter fighting against a stubborn and skilled German defence in Italy. It is a truly authentic account of what it was like to fight your way through one of the most gruelling and dangerous campaigns of the Second World War, where so often the hunters became the hunted.

From Kevin Maurer—the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning coauthor of No Easy Day—comes the true story of a World War II bomber pilot who survived twenty-five missions in Damn Lucky, “an epic, thrillingly written, utterly immersive account of a very lucky, incredible survivor of...

An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of...

*The instant New York Times bestseller* The untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II—all Medal of Honor recipients—from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler’s own mountaintop fortress, by the national bestselling author of The First Wave “Pitch-perfect...

In 1944, hundreds of Allied soldiers were trapped in POW camps in occupied France. The odds of their survival were long. The odds of escaping, even longer. But one man had the courage to fight the odds . . . An elite British S.A.S. operative on an assassination mission gone wrong. A Jewish New...

In Fire and Fortitude—winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History—John C. McManus presented a riveting account of the US Army's fledgling fight in the Pacific following Pearl Harbor. Now, in Island Infernos, he explores the Army’s dogged pursuit of Japanese forces, island by...

A wonderful trip through time and a whild journey of trails and tribulations.

Written with vivid detail, this encouraging, life-giving audiobook is a tale of a World War II Veteran father and his daughter, who found the relationship with him she'd always longed for. Do you have a family member who served in the military, who perhaps saw war, and wondered what their experience was really like? Do you suspect there are past traumas that might be affecting their ability to open up? Do you wish you could feel closer and more connected to your mom, dad, or other family members? If yes, Flying with Dad will pull you into a real-life story that shows you how.

Much has been documented about Himmler as the incarnation of pure evil and the puppet master behind the Holocaust. Now, history’s verdict reveals that he was much more than a mere slaughterer of Jews. For all his ills, Himmler was a visionary. He longed for a utopia based on the blood community of the Aryan race. What lengths was he prepared to go to in order to obtain "good blood" as well as removing the bad? The infamous SS is also examined in detail. Were they just the machinery of murder? What other duties did they perform to help the Nazi war effort?

A magnificent script, newly declassified revelations, testimony from the world's greatest historians and thinkers, and the chilling words of the Fuhrer himself and those of his closest henchmen to deliver History’s Verdict on Hitler. Opening with an astonishing series of insights into the formative years of the future dictator, we trace how the unremarkable son of a provincial bully experienced failure in love and art to then find happiness in the midst of a bloodbath. How Germany's defeat in the Great War catalysed his anti-Semitism and sense of destiny.

Ike’s public image is frequently overshadowed by more attention-grabbing colleagues. Cases in point: General Patton, his World War II subordinate; and JFK, his successor as President of the United States of America. But we reveal that there is far more to Ike than the myth of his being an uncharismatic conservative in everything he did. We examine his rise from humble origins in Kansas. His loving family relationships - including a pacifist mother - that led to his concern for the well-being of those he was responsible for.