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Dive into a riveting historical journey that reveals the courageous triumph of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, even if history tried to silence them. Have you ever wondered about the unsung heroes who dared to stand against tyranny? Does mainstream history leave you yearning for compelling stories of the figures who defied the odds? Are you searching for an engaging narrative that will challenge your intellect and resonate deeply with your sense of justice?

Emprenda un viaje de exploración a través de los ojos de algunos de los héroes más memorables de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La Segunda Guerra Mundial estuvo salpicada por algunos de los conflictos más devastadores de la historia de la humanidad, pero cimentó el nombre de muchas personas que se alzaron sobre el fragor de la contienda con una valentía sin parangón. Este libro sigue las vidas y acciones de diez de estos destacados héroes.

Документальная книга Клэр Малли "Шпионаж и любовь" рассказывает историю одной удивительной женщины - авантюрную историю шпионских закулисных интриг, разворачивающуюся на фоне величайших страданий, в которые ввергла народы Европы нацистская Германия.

Most histories of wounded Civil War veterans construe them as feminized men whose manhood has suffered due to their inability to provide for and raise families or engage in business. Wounded for Life complicates this picture by examining how seven veterans—six soldiers and one physician—coped with their changed bodies in their postwar lives. Through these intimate stories, author Robert D. Hicks looks at the veteran's body as shaped by the trauma of the battlefield and hospital and the construction of a postwar identity in relation to that trauma.

This book provides a complete overview of U.S. and British escape and evasion during World War II. It tells the story of the escape and evasion organizations, the Resistance-operated lines, and the dangers faced by the escapers and the evaders in a logical and compelling narrative. Heroism, betrayal, sacrifice, and cowardice are all elements of this fascinating part of the rich tapestry of World War II.

On a sweltering summer day in 2007, having just lost her brother to illness, Livia Manera Sambuy finds herself standing before a 1924 photograph of a stunningly elegant Indian princess at a museum in Mumbai. What's written in the caption will change her life forever. This gorgeous Punjabi princess, it's said, sold her jewels in occupied Paris to save Jewish lives, only to be arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp, where she died within a year. Could it be true? And if so, how could such a sensational story have gone unnoticed?

"Bombemål Shellhuset" er en bevægende fortælling om en af de mest skelsættende dage under Danmarks besættelse. Bogen fortæller om triumfen den 21. marts 1945, da Royal Air Force-bombefly i en dristig nålestiksoperation tilintetgjorde Gestapos danske hovedkvarter i Shellhuset midt i København ved højlys dag. Og om tragedien samme dag, hvor en kæde af ulyksalige omstændigheder førte til fejlbombningen af en katolsk pigeskole på Frederiksberg og udraderingen af et helt beboelseskvarter.

Præsten, Elisabeth, genoplever sit liv som uønsket barn under 2. verdenskrig, hvilket har efterladt hende med traumatiske oplevelser, og med et dårligt forhold til sin moder. Den danske forfatter Elisabeth Lyneborg (f. 1939) har slået sine folder vidt omkring. Hun har eksempelvis arbejdet som engelsk korrespondent i 1958-60 efterfulgt af et studieophold i Frankrig (1960-61), hvorefter hun vendte tilbage til Danmark, hvor hun fik optagelse som skuespillerelev ved Århus Teater i 1961-62.

"Stalingrad" beretter om rædslerne fra Hitlers invasion af Rusland i 1941 til tilintetgørelsen af den store tyske 6. Armé og feltmarskal Paulus‘ overgivelse i 1943. Med isnende nærvær fortælles om tyskernes forsøg på at løbe Stalin over ende, om misinformation, internt nid og nag i begge lejre, helte og dødsforagt, angsten for det hemmelige politi, konstante bombardementer, kampvognsangreb og mand til mand-kampe med bajonetter. Antony Beevor har udgivet flere historiske bestsellere om Anden Verdenskrig.

"Drengesabotørerne" - er blot en af de mange navne brugt om drengene fra Churchill-klubben, stiftet i 1941, som en af de første organiserede modstandsgrupper i Danmark imod nazisterne. Denne e-bog indeholder den originale version af historien om drengene fra Churchill-klubben, skrevet og fortalt i sommeren 1945 af klubbens stifter Knud Pedersen. E-bogen er en spændende fortælling om de heroiske drenges indsats for at stoppe tyskerne i at fuldføre deres missioner i Danmark.

En bro för mycket handlar om de allierades förtvivlade kamp om bron vid Arnhem i Holland i september 1944. De allierade skulle bakom de tyska linjerna i en gigantisk operation luftlandsätta 35 000 man. Hur planen misslyckas berättas om i denna spännande och mycket väldokumenterade bok. Cornelius Ryan var krigsreporter åt flera Londontidningar och tillhörde en av de skickligaste i sin generation. Boken läses av Claes Elfsberg som under många år hanterat nyheter i TV och som här lånar sin röst åt historien. ...

In 1943, as the war against Nazi Germany raged abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt had a critical goal: a face-to-face sit-down with his allies Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. This first-ever meeting of the Big Three in Tehran, Iran, would decide some of the most crucial strategic details of the war. Yet when the Nazis found out about the meeting, their own secret plan took shape—an assassination plot that would’ve changed history.

The American Civil War was a long and bloody conflict whose effects are still felt today in the United States. The descendants of the men who fought in the war continue to pay the fallen their respects and remember the events of the war, the various battles, and the personalities of the many leaders involved.

There are as many as 60 miles of underground tunnels beneath Wiltshire, England alone. While some of these abandoned and decaying subterranean spaces are playgrounds for urban explorers, others have been shrouded in secrecy for decades. This bunker-busting journey to some of Britain's dark and forgotten places will give you the chance to peek behind the heavy blast-proof doors of some of the country's best-kept underground secrets.

The era of modern warfare introduced in World War II presented the Allied Powers with one of the more complicated logistical challenges of the century: how to develop an extensive support network that could supply and maintain a vast military force comprised of multiple services and many different nations thousands of miles away from their home ports. The need to keep tanks rolling, airplanes flying, and food and aid in continuous supply was paramount to defeating the Nazi regime.

Polish Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in as if she was their own daughter. She fell in love with a German engineer who built aeroplanes for the Luftwaffe. What none of these people knew was that Mala Rivka Kizel had been born into a large Orthodox Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland, in 1926. By using her charm, intelligence, blonde hair, and blue eyes to assume different identities, she was the only member of her family to survive World War II.

When African American servicemen went to fight in the Vietnam War, discrimination and prejudice followed them. Even in a faraway country, their military experiences were shaped by the racial environment of the home front. War is often viewed as a crucible that can transform society, but American race relations proved remarkably durable. In Race in the Crucible of War, Gerald F. Goodwin examines how Black servicemen experienced and interpreted racial issues during their time in Vietnam.

Diciassette mesi nascosti sottoterra: l'avventura di quarantasei ebrei nel diario di un ragazzo che sfuggì ai nazisti. Nei primi mesi del 1943 l'ombra della liquidazione incombeva sul ghetto di Drohobycz, una cittadina polacca ai piedi dei Carpazi. Gli ebrei scampati a due anni di occupazione nazista sapevano di essere condannati e cercarono di nascondersi in attesa dell'Armata rossa. Alcuni di loro, raccolti attorno alle famiglie Mayer e Schwartz, spesero le ultime risorse per costruire un bunker sotto una villa.

Il 15 marzo 1944, la ventiquattrenne Renata Laqueur venne deportata assieme al marito nel campo di concentramento di Bergen-Belsen, nella Bassa Sassonia, dopo aver già trascorso un anno in vari altri lager. I due rimasero a Bergen-Belsen fino all'aprile del 1945, quando furono liberati dall'Armata Rossa.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (November 30, 1874-January 24, 1965) was born in Oxfordshire, England, of mixed English and American parentage. He would become a statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945—during the Second World War—and again from 1951 to 1955.