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World War II was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, involving the majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances. The major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities into the war effort. It was by far the deadliest conflict in human history, resulting in 70 to 85 million fatalities, due to actual battles as well as genocides (the Holocaust), starvation, massacres, and disease.

In this searing and beautifully written memoir, Marine Lieutenant and CNN Op-Ed contributor Mike Scotti charts a course from the front lines of Iraq back home to New York, showing how sometimes the hardest battle is the one after the war. Sometimes the hardest battle is the one after the war. As...

IBM and the Holocaust is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling shocker--a million copies in print--detailing IBM's conscious co-planning and co-organizing of the Holocaust for the Nazis, all micromanaged by its president Thomas J Watson from New York and Paris. This Expanded Edition offers pages of previous unpublished documents, internal company correspondence, and other archival materials to produce an even more explosive volume.

Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation. After the war, the famed Monuments Men (and women) recovered several hundred thousand pieces from the Germans' makeshift repositories. Well-publicized restitution cases, such as that of Gustav Klimt's luminous painting featured in the film Woman in Gold, illustrate the legacy of Nazi looting in the art world today. But what happened to looted art that was never returned to its rightful owners?

Brought to you by Penguin. Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in 20th-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts...

When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, social tensions, or the influence of Enlightenment thought. But what did Parisians themselves think they were doing—how did they understand their world? What were the motivations and aspirations that guided their actions?

The New York Times bestseller now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three...

NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life’s challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he’s learned over the course of his fascinating...

Twenty-six-year-old cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and sent to the Siberian Gulag. In the spring of 1941, he escaped with six of his fellow prisoners, including one American. Thus began their astonishing trek to freedom.

Six months after Pearl Harbor, the seemingly invincible Imperial Japanese Navy prepared a decisive blow against the United States. After sweeping through Asia and the South Pacific, Japan's military targeted the tiny atoll of Midway, an ideal launching pad for the invasion of Hawaii and beyond. But the United States Navy was waiting for them. Thanks to cutting-edge code-breaking technology, tactical daring, and a huge stroke of luck, the Americans under Admiral Chester W. Nimitz dealt the Japanese navy its first major defeat of the war.

Following the success of his #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your Bed, Admiral William H. McRaven is back with amazing stories of bravery and heroism during his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces. "Fascinating ... McRaven's war stories deliver remarkable...

Recounts a frontline soldier's Pacific War experience, blending combat hardship, personal reflection, and wartime artistry. Harvey Ball, communications sergeant in Company L, 383rd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division, served on the front lines in the Pacific during World War II. His memoir...

Bloomsbury presents The Anarchy by William Dalrymple, read by Sid Sagar. THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 A...

"Meine Klasse. Wer hat überlebt?" Es ist eine Momentaufnahme: Im Mai 1937 versammelt sich die dritte Klasse der Jüdischen Volksschule in der Herzog-Rudolf-Straße in München zu einem Klassenfoto. Ausgehend von dieser Aufnahme entwirft das Buch eine vielstimmige Kollektivbiografie all der...

Discover the remarkable history of the Battle of the Wilderness...The year 1864 saw Abraham Lincoln facing an increasingly unpopular war with too few Union victories, and a presidential re-election campaign pitting him against the Democratic challenger and former Union commander General George McClellan. The outlook for both looked dire for Lincoln.

Jehuda Bacon ist einer der letzten Überlebenden von Auschwitz, und was er über diese Zeit zu sagen hat, ist eindringlich und unglaublich zugleich. Im Gespräch mit dem Psychologen und Bestsellerautor Manfred Lütz erzählt er auf berührende Weise erstmals ausführlich über seine Erlebnisse im KZ. Eindringlich bringt er uns nahe, wie er trotz tiefer Erschütterung den Glauben an die Würde des Menschen zurückgewann und sogar im Leiden Sinn erleben konnte – gelesen von Jaap Achterberg.

Bloomsbury presents Generalship on the Eastern Front, 1941–45: A Study in Command by Robert Forczyk, read by Elliot Chapman A comprehensive evaluation of generalship on the most important front in World War II. The war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 was the largest sustained air-ground...

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?

Across occupied Europe, there existed a hidden world of false papers, whispered passwords, midnight train journeys, secret apartments, mountain guides, and ordinary civilians risking everything to help strangers escape the Nazi system. This is the story of the Comet Line. Across the Silent Frontier reveals one of the most extraordinary civilian rescue operations of the Second World War—the escape network that guided downed Allied airmen from occupied Belgium through France, across the Pyrenees, and into Spain using nothing but courage, secrecy, endurance, and trust.

How did an entire nation's churches end up serving the regime that destroyed them?God's People tells the story of the Christian institutions that accommodated Adolf Hitler, and the Christ they reinvented to do it. In November 1933, twenty thousand members of the German Christian movement packed the Berlin Sportpalast to hear a schoolteacher demand that Christianity be purged along racial lines and rebuilt as a national religion. The movement was embarrassed. They got rid of the man. They kept the agenda.