検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦

A tutt’oggi Hitler e il suo carisma sono circondati da un fascino perverso. In questa nuova biografia politica, Hans-Ulrich Thamer riassume in modo pregnante lo stato della ricerca concentrandosi in particolare sul rapporto tra messinscena e potere, e tra consenso e violenza. L’autore – tra i maggiori esperti del nazionalsocialismo – mostra in modo chiaro e comprensibile come Hitler abbia reagito abilmente alle aspettative della società tedesca facendo diventare il culto del Führer la base stessa della sua politica.

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.

In June 1944, a Stars and Stripes photographer captured a group of paratroopers preparing for the Normandy invasion—faces streaked with war paint, hair shaved into mohawks. The American public didn't know them, but within the 101st Airborne the 1st Demolition Section of the 506th PIR—the...

A memoir of hope and survival. I. Betty Grebenschikoff has reached into the past to write a moving account of her experiences as a Holocaust refugee in China. Shanghai was the only port in 1939 that was willing to admit European Jews without passports or visas. Once My Name Was Sara details her...

ONE DESTROYER TWELVE BATTLE STARS FIFTY VOICES 424 STORIES Hear it as they lived it! Hell, even the men down in the fireroom knew we were done for! Mike Callahan Word spread like wildfire throughout the ship that we were going in to two thousand yards, and every single one of us knew what our...

”Seks gange forsøgte tyske officerer at slå Hitler ihjel i løbet af efteråret 1943 og sommeren 1944. Sprængstof i personlige gaver, attentatmænd bevæbnet med håndgranater og pistoler, ja endda selvmordsbombere med lommerne fulde af sprængstof jagtede Føreren, som utvivlsomt...

Navnet Adolf Hitler vækker – selv et halvt århundrede efter Det Tredje Riges fald – stadig afsky, foragt og forundring. For hvordan kunne en amatørmaler forføre et helt folk? Hvordan kunne han ud af et ubetydeligt parti med 55 medlemmer skabe en massebevægelse på millioner? Bogen, du...

”De bitre kampe i Stalingrads ruiner, rædslerne på Volgaflodens mørke vande og den intense luftkrig over Stalingrad kostede hundredtusindvis af soldater og civile livet. Slaget var så udmarvende og grusomt, at selv 2. verdenskrigs mest hårdføre generaler ikke kunne undgå at blive...

The remarkable story of how fresh SAS recruits helped lay the foundation for the liberation of France in the last chapter of the Second World War. On 16 June 1944, 58 men from 1 SAS parachuted into occupied France. Landing hundreds of miles behind German lines, their mission was to disrupt the...

The Greatest Day is an hour-by-hour account of the events of 15 September 1940, when the Luftwaffe’s all-out attempt to destroy the Royal Air Force with an armada of bombers was thwarted by the Spitfires and Hurricanes of RAF Fighter Command. Now celebrated as ‘Battle of Britain Day’, 15...

'Starts with a bang and never lets up until the final page. Compulsively readable . . . a spy story, a war story and a love story. A rousing, rollicking, entirely thrilling book' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of London Falling In 1941, Andrée 'Dédée' de Jongh set out on a mission that would...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2026 'A captivating mosaic of wartime Berlin' Katja Hoyer, Financial Times 'Wonderfully nuanced' Guardian When war broke out in September 1939, what was most striking in the German capital at first was how little changed. Unless you were...

La trajectoire fulgurante d'un as de l'aviation allemande qui est aussi la peinture d'une société cédant aux sirènes de l'Allemagne nazie. À la veille de Noël 1941, Erbo von Kageneck fut tué en Libye par un chasseur australien. Crédité de 67 victoires aériennes homologuées, il était devenu l'un des 35 chevaliers de la croix de fer avec feuilles de chêne. Grâce à des documents familiaux, son frère raconte la trajectoire fulgurante de cet « as » de l'aviation.

Bloomsbury presents Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 by Robert Forczyk, read by James Parsons. This fascinating title from renowned World War II historian Robert Forczyk tells the story of Case White. The German invasion of Poland on 1 September, 1939, designated as Fall Weiss (Case...

Bloomsbury presents On a Knife's Edge: The Ukraine, November 1942–March 1943 by Prit Buttar, read by Leighton Pugh From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar, this is the engrossing story of the often-overlooked German counteroffensive post-Stalingrad, and how it prevented the...

The unsung story of heroic World War II combat nurses sent into the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa to save thousands of American soldiers and Marines The Pacific Theater was the setting for some of World War II’s bloodiest battles, and yet much of its history remains untold. As the war in...

The riveting story of the hunt for a Berlin serial killer at the height of Nazi rule, uncovering the deep connections between German criminal science and policing and the horrors of the Holocaust. December 1940, Berlin. Under the cover of citywide blackouts, the city’s commuter rail system...

Da Europa bliver kørt over af Hitlers buldrende krigsmaskine, har Churchill som eneste statsleder mod til at sætte sig op imod Føreren. Jernviljen hos den britiske premierminister gør ham til et forbillede i England og over hele kontinentet. I Tyskland bliver Albert Speer i februar 1942...

Da Hitler sætter ild til Europa i 1939, håber alle de nordiske lande at holde sig ude af konflikten. Men allerede tre måneder senere angriber Den Røde Hær Finland og tvinger landet ud i en overlevelseskamp. I foråret 1940 ruller tunge tyske divisioner op gennem Danmark og Norge, og heller...

Den 27. januar 1944 erklærer Stalin Leningrad for befriet. Efter to et halvt års belejring trækker Værnemagten sig tilbage. Den Røde Hær forfølger de modløse tyske soldater, der på bare tre dage bliver drevet 100 kilometer vestpå. Opmuntret af sejren beslutter den russiske general...