検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦

真珠湾攻撃、ミッドウェイ海戦、レイテ沖海戦、天一号作戦…太平洋戦争を「戦略・作戦・戦術」の視点から再検証。「太平洋戦争の諸戦役を、主として戦略・作戦次元に注目しつつ検討してきた。

苦境を超えて、部下を守り抜く――指揮官の資質と能力とは？ 太平洋戦争末期、ラバウルで10万人もの軍人の命を守り、終戦後も、部下たちの心に寄り添い続ける――不滅の仁将の智勇を、現代の視点で捉え直した力作評伝。

This illuminating study explores the ways in which the shattering defeat of the Japanese in World War II, followed by over six years of American military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society. The author describes the countless ways in which the Japanese met the challenge of "starting over", from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes, fears, and activities of ordinary men and women in every walk of life.

慢心、隠蔽、虚偽の報告……。太平洋戦争において日本海軍が抱えていた「本質的な問題」とは何か。大和ミュージアムの館長であり、菊池寬賞も受賞した海軍史研究家が後世に残す、戦後80年の総決算！

On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss. Pacific Crucible tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history and seized the strategic initiative.

ナチスの強制収容所における体験を綴った名著『夜と霧』の著者であり、「生きる意味」を見出していく心理療法、実存分析(ロゴセラピー)の創始者であるビクトール・フランクルが読者に熱く語りかける「魂」を鼓舞するメッセージ。

Threatened with extermination, many Jewish people refused to go passively to their deaths at the hands of the Nazis during World War II and instead put up heroic resistance. Prisoners at Sobibór and Treblinka organized successful revolts, while at Auschwitz they sacrificed their lives to dynamite the crematorium. Beyond the barbed wire of the camps, hundreds of Jewish people were active in the French resistance and thousands fought with partisans in other occupied countries. One and a half million more served in the Allied armed forces.

From the skies above Europe to the beaches of Normandy, the Allied air campaign of 1943-44 orchestrated one of history's most decisive military victories. In this groundbreaking analysis, retired Air Force Colonel Joseph T. Molyson reveals how a year of strategic bombing and aerial warfare...

Paris, 1939. De to unge mødre Elise og Juliette møder hinanden i Boulogneskoven i udkanten af byen og bliver hurtigt uadskillelige. Selvom krigens skygge kryber over Europa, mistænker ingen af kvinderne, at deres liv snart vil ændre sig uigenkaldeligt. Da Elise bliver et mål for den tyske...

Os nazistas, responsáveis pelo Holocausto durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, foram exemplarmente punidos após a derrota alemã, certo? Não foi bem assim. Muitos desses carrascos desfrutaram o resto da vida em liberdade, em vários cantos do planeta, como se fossem...

An enthralling new study of the brutal British retreat from Burma, the beginning of World War II in the Far East. Using eyewitness accounts and based on meticulous research, World War II historian Jack Bowsher examines the pivotal Burma campaign of 1942. In the aftermath of the attack on Pearl...

Disse otte noveller blev skrevet i 1945 og er baseret på en række interviews der blev foretaget for at afklare graden af uhyrligheder begået mod den polske befolkning – ikke kun jøderne, som dengang udgjorde ca. 10% af befolkningen i Polen. Dermed havde Polen den største jødiske...

Mens de fleste i Ejler Borchs hjemby Hundested husker ham som den tidligere maskinmester på færgerne, kommer det nok bag på en del, at han har en fortid som modstandsmand bevæbnet med en maskinpistol. Ejler Borch, født i 1925 og snart 100 år gammel, var aktiv i BOPA fra 1944 til 1945. I...

4. maj 1945. Tyskland kapitulrer, og Danmark er atter frit. Samtidig strander 1400 pludselig frie, tyske krigsfanger på Påø Strand på Langeland. Krigsfangerne, som var allierede soldater fra Beligne, Frankrig og Sovjetunionen, var blevet gennet ombord på en flydedok på Rügen fire dage...

Kender du skudhullet i Knud den Helliges knæ på Odense Rådhus? Historien om kanonstillingerne og pansergravene, der løb på tværs af Sønderjylland og stadig er synlige? Modstandstegnet i Hammer Bakker på Bornholm? Krigsmuseet på Egholm Slot i Hornsherred? Gestapos fængsel i Kolding?...

*Narrated by the Author* An unforgettable collection of recipes inspired by ten diverse, moving stories of Holocaust survivors and WWII heroes, from James Beard Award–winning chef Alon Shaya with author June Hersh. Memories of a Good Meal is a culinary journey that celebrates the tenacity of...

It is time to focus on what the United States has gotten right in the pursuit of liberty in the last 250 years since the nation’s founding. Two beliefs undergird America’s experiment in liberty, and they are articulated in the Declaration of Independence. The book “We Hold These Truths”...

Fritz Kleinmann fasst einen unglaublichen Beschluss. Da er seinen Vater nicht allein lassen will, folgt er ihm nach Auschwitz. Jeremy Dronfields Bestseller „Der Junge, der seinem Vater nach Auschwitz folgte" ist ein eindringliches Plädoyer gegen das Vergessen. Eine Geschichte von unermesslicher Grausamkeit, doch auch von Menschlichkeit, Mut und Hoffnung.

Um livro que faltava sobre as duas guerras mundiais e o inferno do nazismo. C. G. Sweeting resgata nas páginas deste O piloto de Hitler o testemunho privilegiado de um homem fiel ao ditador alemão mesmo depois dos dez anos de sofrimento em masmorras e campos de prisioneiros da União...

In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler's army was beaten, and expected that the war would be over by Christmas. But the disastrous Allied airborne landing in Holland, American setbacks on the German border and in the Hürtgen Forest, together with the Battle of the Bulge, drastically...