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How to Start a War is unlike any audiobook you’ve ever listened to. Adapted from the popular podcast miniseries of the same name, Michael Trapani immerses listeners in the dramatic events that led to the crime of the century – World War II and the Holocaust – documenting the actions of the criminals who carried it out. Listeners will feel like they are in the room as some of history’s most villainous characters plot to overthrow democracy, impose tyranny, and outmaneuver those who had the power to stop them.

There is no story in 20th-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the world’s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time.

In the spring of 1933, more than 8,000 Jewish musicians, actors, and other artists were expelled from their positions with German orchestras, opera companies, and theater groups. Later that year, the Jüdische Kulturbund, or Jewish Culture Association, was created to allow Jewish artists to perform for Jewish audiences.

Brought to you by Penguin. The 2019 Costa Book of the Year and Biography Winner. How do you keep fighting in the face of unimaginable horror? Narrated by David Rintoul, this is the untold story of one of the greatest heroes of the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, after the Nazi...

The monumental struggle fought against Imperial Japan in the Asia/Pacific theater during World War II is primarily viewed as an American affair. While the United States did play a dominant role, the British and Commonwealth forces also made major contributions. It was a difficult and often desperate conflict fought against a skilled and ruthless enemy that initially saw the British suffer the worst series of defeats ever to befall their armed forces.

Recounts a frontline soldier's Pacific War experience, blending combat hardship, personal reflection, and wartime artistry. Harvey Ball, communications sergeant in Company L, 383rd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division, served on the front lines in the Pacific during World War II. His memoir...

"Meine Klasse. Wer hat überlebt?" Es ist eine Momentaufnahme: Im Mai 1937 versammelt sich die dritte Klasse der Jüdischen Volksschule in der Herzog-Rudolf-Straße in München zu einem Klassenfoto. Ausgehend von dieser Aufnahme entwirft das Buch eine vielstimmige Kollektivbiografie all der...

Jehuda Bacon ist einer der letzten Überlebenden von Auschwitz, und was er über diese Zeit zu sagen hat, ist eindringlich und unglaublich zugleich. Im Gespräch mit dem Psychologen und Bestsellerautor Manfred Lütz erzählt er auf berührende Weise erstmals ausführlich über seine Erlebnisse im KZ. Eindringlich bringt er uns nahe, wie er trotz tiefer Erschütterung den Glauben an die Würde des Menschen zurückgewann und sogar im Leiden Sinn erleben konnte – gelesen von Jaap Achterberg.

Bloomsbury presents Generalship on the Eastern Front, 1941–45: A Study in Command by Robert Forczyk, read by Elliot Chapman A comprehensive evaluation of generalship on the most important front in World War II. The war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 was the largest sustained air-ground...

В 38 лет Дженнифер Тиге, дочь немки и нигерийца, узнает, что она внучка нацистского преступника. Миллионы людей знают историю жестокого коменданта концлагеря из «Списка Шиндлера». Садиста, любившего ради развлечения расстреливать евреев с балкона виллы. Как Дженнифер, учившейся и несколько лет прожившей в Израиле, смотреть теперь в глаза друзьям, зная, что у каждого из них кто-то из родственников погиб в нацистских концлагерях, может быть, и в самом Плашове?

Across occupied Europe, there existed a hidden world of false papers, whispered passwords, midnight train journeys, secret apartments, mountain guides, and ordinary civilians risking everything to help strangers escape the Nazi system. This is the story of the Comet Line. Across the Silent Frontier reveals one of the most extraordinary civilian rescue operations of the Second World War—the escape network that guided downed Allied airmen from occupied Belgium through France, across the Pyrenees, and into Spain using nothing but courage, secrecy, endurance, and trust.

How did an entire nation's churches end up serving the regime that destroyed them?God's People tells the story of the Christian institutions that accommodated Adolf Hitler, and the Christ they reinvented to do it. In November 1933, twenty thousand members of the German Christian movement packed the Berlin Sportpalast to hear a schoolteacher demand that Christianity be purged along racial lines and rebuilt as a national religion. The movement was embarrassed. They got rid of the man. They kept the agenda.

The audiobook is a biography of my parents lives during WWII while separated by the war during which my father was a Navigator on a B-17 flying bombing missions over Germany, The events that affected their lives when he was shot down, captured and a Prisoner of War of the Germans. The story emerges from letters they wrote each other and historical war telegrams and documents they saved from the war years.

Un témoignage rare, lucide et profondément humain sur l'une des pages les plus sombres de l'Histoire. En 1941, Benjamin Jacobs est encore étudiant en médecine dentaire quand il est déporté avec son père. Transporté dans plusieurs camps avant de terminer à Auschwitz, il ne doit sa survie qu'à sa trousse de dentiste. Son récit bouleversant raconte la faim, la peur et la mort mais aussi les gestes de solidarité et les instants de courage.

Les grands stratèges américains de la Seconde Guerre mondiale se comptent sur les doigts d'une main. Les deux premiers sont incontestablement l'amiral Nimitz et le général MacArthur, le second étant de loin le plus excentrique et le plus flamboyant. En 1918, il est déjà général sur le front de France et accompagne les nettoyeurs de tranchées, ceint d'une écharpe mauve de deux mètres tricotée par sa mère et armé seulement d'une badine...

A landmark book published to rave reviews, Pearl Harbor Ghosts has now been updated to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the surprise attack that forever changed the course of history. Full of gripping drama and vibrant details, here is the intimate human story of the events surrounding...

Na een Oscar te hebben gewonnen, verdiept Willeke van Ammelrooy zich in de Japanse interneringskampen door een dagboek van Toos Blokland, met aangrijpende, poëtische verhalen van die tijd.

In 1979, Galina Cherny and her husband Yan submitted a single form. That application was a declaration. There was no going back. One piece of luggage. Stripped of citizenship. Abused at the border by Soviet soldiers. Suspended between two worlds. Last Train to Freedom is the true story of a Jewish girl born into a patriotic military family in Soviet-era Ukraine, where being Jewish determined where you could study, where you could work, and what you dared to say aloud.

Eine der zentralen Figuren des NS-Regimes im Spiegel seiner Zeit. Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942) war einer der mächtigsten Männer des »Dritten Reichs«: Als Leiter des Reichssicherheitshauptamtes und engster Mitarbeiter Heinrich Himmlers lenkte er den Terrorapparat der Nationalsozialisten. Robert Gerwarth folgt in seiner Biographie dem steilen Aufstieg Heydrichs und beleuchtet dessen Rolle im NS-Regime sowie die Stilisierung zum Märtyrer nach seinem Tod durch ein Attentat in Prag.

Hunderttausende Deutsche flohen Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs vor der Roten Armee aus Ostpreußen und Königsberg. Immer wieder gingen Kinder auf der Flucht verloren oder erlebten die Ermordung der eigenen Familie. Andere mussten ohnmächtig mit ansehen, wie ihre Geschwister verhungerten, die Großeltern aus Schwäche starben oder die Mutter einer Epidemie erlag. Auf sich allein gestellt, überlebten diese Kinder in den Wäldern des Baltikums. Man nannte sie „Wolfskinder".