検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦

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. Basierend auf den geheimen Tagebüchern des jüdischen KZ-Häftlings Gustav Kleinmann, erzählt der Autor in diesem historischen Sachbuch die Geschichte von Gustav und seinem Sohn Fritz, die den „Todesfabriken" der Nazis entkamen.

The Allied leaders rarely spoke directly about the Holocaust in public. When Churchill and Stalin alluded to Nazi mass murder of civilians in early speeches, they said much less than they knew. Not until December 1942 did Allied governments issue a joint statement about Nazi Germany's policy of...

When the Germans invaded Norway in 1940, teenager Odd Bjerke bid his family farewell and confidently made his way to Sweden alone, on skis, with the intention of traveling to Britain to fight for his country. His wartime odyssey began when he joined the Norwegian Free Army in Scotland in 1940...

A vivid account of the US Eighth Air Force’s raid on Schweinfurt in October 1943, their most difficult and costliest mission of World War II. Based on the first-hand accounts of those who survived, renowned aviation historian Tom Cleaver tells the story of the Eighth Air Force’s Mission 115...

An account of the Long Range Desert Group's overlooked exploits in the last 18 months of World War II. The Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) was formed in 1940 and is most famous for the secretive but vital role it played in the North African campaign in World War II. However, it also saw...

The definitive, myth-busting history of the wartime SAS – the real story behind the global BBC phenomenon Rogue Heroes, told by the only historian trusted by 75 original SAS veterans. This exciting new history reveals a story far more compelling and real than the dramatic liberties taken in...

In the first of a three-volume series, a brilliant young scholar of World War II offers a fresh and magisterial new history of the cataclysmic military struggle and the geo- and socio-political change it engendered. Between 1931 and 1949, a series of crises broke out that threatened collective...

A masterwork of moral inquiry from one of the twentieth century’s greatest observers of power, guilt, and justice In A Train of Powder, Rebecca West—one of the great literary journalists of the twentieth century—brings her crystalline intelligence and unsparing moral vision to some of the...

Ce second volume nous entraîne au cœur des choix politiques qui maintiennent Goebbels enchaîné à Hitler. L'homme, qui a rassemblé les masses en une communauté nationale derrière le Führer à partir de 1933, cumule les fonctions et ne cesse de renforcer ses pouvoirs durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale où il parvient à imposer le concept de « guerre totale ». Fidèle parmi les fidèles, sa soumission absolue l'entraîne jusqu'à la mort : la sienne et celle de sa famille au complet.

PREMIO GONCOURT 2017Un relato inquietante acerca de los entresijos del inicio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la implicación de los empresarios en el ascenso de Hitler al poder. En febrero de 1933, en el Reichstag tuvo lugar una reunión secreta, que no estaba en el orden del día, en la que los...

Международная команда историков на протяжении нескольких лет выясняла, что стоит за мифом о «Салоне Китти»–центре международного шпионажа, созданном нацистскими главарями на базе берлинского борделя средней руки. Кем была пресловутая Китти Шмидт–и почему ее «салон» продолжал работать и после войны? На что рассчитывали–и чего добились–Гейндрих и Шелленберг? Как островок «Веймарского Берлина» сохранился в гитлеровской Германии–и какие метаморфозы ему пришлось пережить?

Dieses dem Buch zugrunde liegende schriftliche Material ist im strengen Sinn kein Tagebuch, trotzdem wird der Begriff übernommen, weil der Soldat Engelbert selbst von einem Tagebuch spricht. Das aufgefundeneTagebuch und die Briefe sind Geschichte zum anfassen und hinterlassen nach dem Lesen meist mehr Fragen als sie Antworten geben. So ist es auch dem Herausgeber mit dem Tagebuch von Engelbert ergangen. Dabei können Tagebücher viel über einen Menschen aussagen, wenn der Tagebuchschreiber sich an die Wahrheit hält und ehrlich mit sich selbst umgeht. Und da stellt sich die Frage?

« Il m'a fallu soixante ans pour pouvoir en parler, pour isoler cet enfer intérieur, pour pouvoir le voir de l'extérieur. Il est impossible de pouvoir oublier une expérience comme celle de l'Ebre mais pendant des années je l'ai oubliée. Ou peut-être l'ai-je cachée par peur. Ou pour me libérer inconsciemment du souvenir de l'horreur. Comme si quelque chose dans mon cerveau avait fermé une porte. Je ne peux pas l'expliquer, peut-être que j'avais honte de parler de ces choses.

The Prince of Whitechapel, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...

"A well-written and rewarding memoir that provides keen insight into the mindset of a patriotic young man willing to make sacrifices for his country." —Robert Forczyk In this masterful two-volume account, Prussian solider and officer Karl Knoblauch draws on his wartime diaries to detail his...

One woman's extraordinary personal journey in the United States military and her triumphant effort to honor her predecessors with the Congressional Gold Medal Looking back on her remarkable career, Retired Army Colonel Edna W. Cummings can justly say that "the odds ain't good, but good stuff...

In this second of two impressive volumes, Prussian solider and officer Karl Knoblauch describes his military career during the final stages of the Second World War. This volume picks up where the first book left off, with Knoblauch's experiences as an officer in the 1st Fallschirm-Panzer...

10 maggio 1933. A Bebelplatz, nel centro di Berlino, allo scoccare della mezzanotte migliaia di libri vengono dati alle fiamme. Joseph Goebbels proclama: «L'uomo tedesco del futuro non sarà più un uomo fatto di libri, ma un uomo di carattere». Su tutta l'Europa si sparge un odore di benzina e di cenere. 24 febbraio 2022. La Russia invade l'Ucraina, e di lì a qualche mese un nuovo conflitto devasterà la striscia di Gaza.

Between the 26th May and 4th June 1940, 338,226 men were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk, after having been surrounded by German troops during the Battle of France. 222 naval vessels and 665 civilian craft had continuously ferried between Dunkirk and the British coast, a miraculous landmark in modern history. This is their story. Their real story. Featuring stories told by Ernie Wiggins, Walter Sullivan, Alan Wayland, Tom Waldren, Wally Stokes and Dick Sharpe.

Winston Churchill became Great Britain's Prime Minister on 10th May 1940 after the country had finally lost all faith in the great appeaser, Neville Chamberlain and he went on to become a symbol of national unity throughout World War 2. This programme will be a lasting tribute and commemoration to the man who defined 'their finest hour'.