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From the depths of German and American archives comes a story one soldier never wanted told. The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee’s position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German company of the Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Mexican-American War and died defending Lee’s battery at the Siege of Veracruz in 1847.

Mary Fulbrook's encompassing book explores the lives of individuals across a full spectrum of suffering and guilt, each one capturing one small part of the greater story. Using "reckoning" in the widest possible sense to evoke how the consequences of violence have expanded almost infinitely through time. Fulbrook exposes the disjuncture between official myths about "dealing with the past" and the extent to which the vast majority of Nazi perpetrators evaded responsibility.

The attack on Nazi Germany’s dams on May 17, 1943, was one of the most remarkable feats in military history. The absurdly young men of the Royal Air Force’s 617 Squadron set forth in cold blood and darkness, without benefit of electronic aids, to fly lumbering heavy bombers straight and level towards a target at a height above the water less than the length of a bowling alley. Yet this story has never been told in full. Max Hastings takes us back to the May 1943 raid to reveal how the truth of that night is considerably different from the popularized account most people know.

In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. Was Dresden a legitimate military target or was the bombing a last act of atavistic mass murder in a war already won? From the history of the city to the attack itself, conveyed in a minute-by-minute account from the first of the flares to the flames reaching almost a mile high best-selling author Sinclair McKay creates a vast canvas and brings it alive with touching human detail.

On February 13, 1945 at 10:03 p.m., British bombers began one of the most devastating attacks of WWII: the bombing of Dresden. The first contingent killed people and destroyed buildings, roads, and other structures. The second rained down fire, turning the streets into a blast furnace, the shelters into ovens, and whipping up a molten hurricane in which the citizens of Dresden were burned, baked, or suffocated to death.

Published in 1937, the result of 15 years of careful study since his days on the German General Staff in the First World War, Achtung Panzer! argues how vital the proper use of tanks and supporting armoured vehicles would be in the conduct of a future war. When that war came, just two years later, he proved it, leading his Panzers with distinction in the Polish, French and Russian campaigns. Panzer warfare had come of age, exactly as he had forecast.

Mengele describes the international search for the Nazi doctor in 1985 that ended in a cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the dogged forensic investigation that produced overwhelming evidence that Mengele had died - but failed to convince those who, arguably, most wanted him dead. This is the riveting story of science without limits, escape without freedom, and resolution without justice.

Fortællingen om Weimarrepublikkens fald og Hitlers vej til magten. Weimarrepublikken bliver en turbulent og kaotisk tid. I et Tyskland, der skal på fode igen efter Første Verdenskrigs nederlag, opstår et inferno af politiske kampe og fraktioner. Fra kejsertro til konservative og socialdemokrater til ekstremister på både venstre-og højrefløjen - herunder nationalsocialisterne, med Hitler i spidsen. Bogen dykker ned i et af den moderne histories afgørende vendepunkter: Weimarrepublikkens fald og Hitlers vej til magten - fortalt gennem ti uger fra november 1932.

As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor and author. In this New York Times bestselling biography, Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer's life—the theologian and the spy—and draws them together to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil.

The appearance of a hastily constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days, it had started to metamorphose into a structure that would come to symbolise the brutal insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. A city of almost four million was cut ruthlessly in two, unleashing a potentially catastrophic East-West crisis and plunging the entire world for the first time into the fear of imminent missile-borne apocalypse.

Dieses Hörbuch ist das dritte und letzte der Reihe. Es erzählt die interessante Geschichte Deutschlands weiter, nachdem es seinen Neubeginn geschafft hatte. Denn nun, wo der Neubeginn geschafft war, kam es zur Teilung Deutschlands. Als Zuhörer verfolgt man mit, wie es so weit kommen konnte und wie die Menschen dieser Zeit mit der neuen Situation umgingen. Zudem werden die Zusammenhänge des kalten Krieges berichtet. Das Hörbuch ist in der Lage den Zuhörer in die Geschichte zurück zu ziehen und ihm ein realistisches Bild jener Zeit zu liefern.

Dieses Hörbuch ist das zweite von drei Teilen. In dieser interessanten Fortsetzung startet der Zuhörer nach dem Zusammenbruch Deutschlands. Davon ausgehend wird die spannende Geschichte erzählt, wie Deutschland seinen Neubeginn schaffte und welche Anstrengungen dafür nötig waren. Denn die Katastrophen des Zweiten Weltkriegs hatten viele Fragen, die geklärt und viele Probleme, für die ein neuer Ansatz gefunden werden mussten.

In this book, Capa recounts his terrifying journey through the darkest battles of World War II and shares his memories of the men and women of the Allied forces who befriended, amused, and captivated him along the way. His photographs are masterpieces - John G. Morris, Magnum Photos' first executive editor, called Capa "the century's greatest battlefield photographer" - and his writing is by turns riotously funny and deeply moving.

Dieses Hörbuch ist das erste von drei Teilen. Es erzählt die spannende Geschichte Deutschlands nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Dem Zuhörer wird in diesem ersten Teil von dem großen Zusammenbruch erzählt, den Deutschland nach dem Ende des Krieges erlitt, bevor es mit einem Neubeginn starten konnte. Diese Stunde Null ist ein bedeutender Punkt in der Geschichte Deutschland und wird in diesem Werk gebührend aufgearbeitet.

Der Fall des eisernen Vorhangs kam für eine Handvoll Menschen kaum überraschend: Hinter den Kulissen der Regierung der DDR wusste man bereits 1986, dass der Zusammenbruch des Staates in spätestens vier Jahren erfolgen würde - eine Lösung der deutschen Frage wurde immer dringlicher. 1988 wurde Kohl der erste Vorschlag zur Ost-West-Annährung durch atomare Abrüstung gemacht, doch dieser ignorierte den Vorstoß. Stattdessen begannen nun geheime Treffen zum Thema Maueröffnung direkt hinter dem Todesstreifen, und diese fanden bis zum Fall der Mauer statt. In diesem spannenden Sachbuch richtet Ferdinand Kroh den Scheinwerfer hinter die Kulissen der DDR und ihrer politischen Machenschaften.

Die Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands in den Erinnerungen eines Diplomaten! Das Jahr 1989 war ein wichtiges für Deutschland, denn es war das Jahr des Mauerfalls. Doch dieser Triumph stellte das Land vor eine neue Herausforderung: die DDR musste nun in die Bundesrepublik eingeordnet werden. Jedoch glückten diese Veränderungen im "deutschen Jahr", welches eigentlich den Zeitraum 1989 und 1990 umfasst, besser als erwartet.

With a total of 40 victories, Oswald Boelcke was Germany's first ace in World War I-and a century later he remains a towering figure in the history of air warfare, renowned for his character, inspirational leadership, organizational genius, development of air-to-air tactics, and impact on aerial doctrine. Paving the way for modern air forces across the world with his pioneering strategies, Boelcke had a dramatic effect on his contemporaries. The famed Red Baron's mentor, instructor, squadron commander, and friend, he exerted a tremendous influence upon the German air force.

Abschied vom Klischee - vier Jahrzehnte DDR. Guido Knopp zeigt in seinem Hörbuch ein differenziertes Bild der 40-jährigen DDR-Geschichte. "Ostalgie" ist dabei Fehlanzeige. Anhand von exponierten und bisher unbekannten DDR-Lebensläufen werden die Widersprüche einer Gesellschaft sichtbar, in der starke Solidarität neben Stasiterror, Einordnung neben Widerstand, Alltagspragmatismus neben bitter enttäuschtem Idealismus stehen.

Living in West Berlin in the 1960s often felt like living in a zoo, everyone packed together behind a wall, with the world always watching. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, the East Berlin zoo was spacious and lush, a socialist utopia where everything was perfectly planned...and then rarely successfully finished. Berlin’s two zoos quickly became symbols of the divided city’s two halves. So no one was terribly surprised when the head zookeepers on either side started an animal arms race - rather than stockpiling nuclear warheads, competing to have the most pandas and hippos.

In a story spanning seven decades, Citizen 865 chronicles the harrowing wartime journeys of two Jewish orphans from occupied Poland who outran the men of Trawniki and settled in the United States, only to learn that some of their one-time captors had followed. A tenacious team of prosecutors and historians pursued these men and, up against the forces of time and political opposition, battled to the present day to remove them from US soil.