検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦

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。

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！

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。

The Year is 1943. The Titanic struggle between the Soviet Union and the Third Reich continues to rage across European Russia and the Caucasus. The Wehrmacht, following its defeat in front of Moscow in December 1942, is preparing for a new offensive on the Russian capital city. Hopes are high...

Ole Nikolajsen hedder den midaldrende, let blakkede journalist, der har slidt sig fra den jyske hede til det mondæne København. Da han møder sin modsætning, den forfinede og kompromisløst ærlige Karl-Werner Bühler, tvinges han ind i en nervepirrende spionsag, der fører helt tilbage til...

I trebindsværket ”Verden i flammer” følger man ligesom i den foregående trilogi, ”Europa i flammer”, familien Henry: Kommandørkaptajnen Victor, kaldet Pug, hans kone, Rhoda, og sønnerne Warren og Byron, den første bataljonschef, den anden sekondløjtnant og gift med den jødiske...

Schlesien in den Kriegsjahren: Katharina Elliger wächst zwischen Schule, Kirche und Hitlerjugend auf, der Krieg scheint lange weit entfernt. Als Ende 1944 die Rote Armee näherrückt, flieht die Fünfzehnjährige mit ihrer Mutter in einem Flüchtlingstreck bis in die Tschechei, kehrt jedoch nach dem Zusammenbruch in die Heimat zurück. Es folgen die Monate der russischen Besatzung, die Ankunft der Polen, Hunger, Willkür und das Lager, bis die Familie ein Jahr später unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen endgültig vertrieben wird.

'Historical fiction of a high order' The Times Spring, 1941. The war in the West is as good as won. Nation after nation has fallen before the Reich's armies. Only Britain endures, her cities under nightly bombardment from the Luftwaffe. Berlin would happily call off the bombers in exchange for a...

Six months. One ocean. The fate of the free world hanging on a knife's edge. Get the complete story of the Pacific War's most decisive chapter two gripping histories, one essential collection, for a fraction of the cost of buying them separately. Pearl Harbor plunges you into the smoke and chaos...

Wer war Claus von Stauffenberg? Die Figur des Obersten, der am Mittag des 20. Juli 1944 die Bombe zündete, die Hitler töten sollte, blieb in der Literatur immer schemenhaft. Wir kennen den langen Weg der Opposition, der schließlich zu dem Anschlag geführt hat, aber bis heute besitzen wir kein überzeugendes Bild von der Persönlichkeit des Attentäters.

Bloomsbury presents Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914 by Prit Buttar, read by Leighton Pugh Collision of Empires is the first major historical work on the Eastern Front during World War I since the 1970s. One of the primary triggers of the outbreak of World War I was...

What happens when two mortal enemies decide to collaborate? In August 1939, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin shocked the world by signing a pact that defied ideology, morality, and reason. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, sworn adversaries, agreed to divide Eastern Europe, silence their armies...

As relevant today as it was when it was first published, Man’s Search for Meaning is a book for finding strength and purpose in times of great despair. “This is a book I reread a lot … it gives me hope … it gives me a sense of strength.”—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNN...

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。

第一次世界大戦後の社会不安から独裁体制の台頭まで、一見無関係な歴史的要因が第二次世界大戦という巨大な悲劇へとつながる「選択の連鎖」を解き明かす歴史ノンフィクション。通勤の移動中や静かに思考を深めたい...

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.

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.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the acclaimed author of Seabiscuit comes the incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption. “Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic...

圧倒的な物量差という冷酷な現実の前で、歴史の転換点となった太平洋戦争終盤の軍事的敗北と人命の犠牲を体系的に紐解く重厚なノンフィクション。静かな夜のひとときや通勤の移動時間に深く没入できる、厳粛かつ省...

Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story. It relates how Anne, her family, and their friends hid in secret rooms - "the Annex" - in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months. Anne, just 13 when the family moved in and only 15 when the Gestapo at last broke down the doors of her secret world, found hope where there was only fear and the first blush of love when outside and all around there washed a sea of hate.