検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦

In 1940, the German sons and daughters of infamous Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Bormann, Speer, and Mengele were children of privilege at four, five, or ten years old, surrounded by affectionate, all-powerful parents. Although innocent and unaware of what was happening at the time, they eventually discovered the extent of their father's occupations:

Historian Mark Hager builds on hundreds of hours of interviews with Harold Frank, sharing the intimate and heart-pounding account of Frank’s journey as a child of the Great Depression to the bloody shores of the D-Day invasion, into the bowels of Nazi Germany, and back to the U.S. where as a young man Harold would spend years resolutely dealing with the lingering effects of starvation rations while determinedly building a new life—a life always mindful of the legacy of his POW experience and his faithful service in America’s hard-fought war against Nazi aggression.

From the icy front lines of Soviet Russia to the bombing campaigns against Britain to the American submarines lurking beneath the choppy waters of the Pacific, step into the shoes of remarkable everyday men and women in World War II: Up Close and Personal. Your lecturer is Dr. Keith Huxen, a historian and project director at The Henry M. Jackson Foundation, which supports the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

World War II is one of the most harrowing and impactful events in human history. Our imaginations may be captured by the sweeping military battles, but the story of war is the story of humans, everyday people trying to do their bit in a world falling apart around them.

From the deployment of US military forces in Europe and the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 to the surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, the voices of history makers were heard around the world. This collection contains original remarks and speeches from FDR, Churchill, Truman, MacArthur, Ike, Chamberlain, General Patton, and others.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2025* From the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists who risked everything for the future of humanity *An Economist Book of the Year* 'An astonishing story...

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.

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...

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.

In the chaotic months after Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War was anything but certain. The US Navy, reeling from sudden loss, scrambled to slow Japanese momentum, while the Imperial Japanese Navy pressed outward, convinced that seizing Southeast Asia's resources was essential to survival. This book...

On September 1, 1939, the day World War II broke out in Europe, Gen. George Marshall was sworn in as chief of staff of the U.S. Army. Ten months later, Roosevelt appointed Henry Stimson secretary of war. For the next five years, from adjoining offices in the Pentagon, Marshall and Stimson headed...

The Last Full Measure tells the forgotten story of the sacred mission to return America’s fallen from foreign battlefields. In the fall of 1944, German flak shredded an American bomber in the skies over Austria. Four crew parachuted from the burning aircraft, but six spiraled five miles to...

צחוק של עכברוש הוא רומן עמוק, זועם, מקורי להפליא. הוא כתוב בחמישה ז`אנרים שונים: סיפור, אגדה, שירת-אינטרנט, פנטזיה עתידנית ויומן, שמצטרפים ליצירה מרשימה אחת, קצבית...

אדם בן כלב נחשב לאחד הספרים המהפכניים בספרות הישראלית ולאחת מנקודות המפנה בייצוג ובתפיסת השואה בספרות. הספר שראה אור לראשונה בשנת 1968, הקדים את זמנו בשנים רבות...

Wer die Mechanismen totaler Herrschaftssysteme verstehen will, kommt an Hannah Arendt nicht vorbei. Dieses Hörbuch nimmt Sie mit auf eine faktenreiche Bildungsreise und vermittelt klar strukturiert Basiswissen über eine Publizistin gegen den Antisemitismus, deren Analysen Orientierung geben. Sie lernen, wie Arendt politische Begriffe entwirrte, wie sie Herrschaft als Prozess beschrieb und warum ihre Texte nicht beruhigen wollen, sondern wach machen.

נעמי היא מעצבת וילונות נשואה לא באושר. את סודותיה המסוכנים היא מיטיבה להסתיר מן העולם, אך אמא שלה יודעת הכול. בין השתיים נכרתת ברית משונה: אני אהיה אשת הסוד שלך...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if you could learn the most extraordinary and lesser-known stories from World War II while drifting peacefully into sleep? This captivating collection of fascinating wartime facts transforms bedtime into an educational journey through history's...

History often records the Holocaust in numbers. This audiobook tells that history through the experience of one Hungarian Jewish family. *Taken. Numbered. Survived. is not a typical Holocaust memoir. It is a documented historical narrative built from survivor testimony, archival records, and verified sources. Through the experience of Mary Katz Claman and her family, it shows how the Holocaust unfolded in human terms: through exclusion, ghettoization, deportation, selection, forced labor, mass murder, displacement, and survival.

Descubre las batallas clave, las tácticas, las tecnologías y los puntos de inflexión de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el conflicto que dio forma al mundo moderno. Este audiolibro explora las causas, los eventos importantes y las consecuencias de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Utilizando un enfoque original se perfilan más de noventa de las ideas y eventos importantes antes, durante y después del conflicto, desde el surgimiento de Hitler y el fascismo en la década de 1930 hasta Pearl Harbor, los aterrizajes del día D y el bombardeo de Hiroshima a la fundación del Estado de Israel en 1948.