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In the 1930s, the airship was viewed as the future of transatlantic travel and a brave new era of global connectedness. Germany's safe, fast and efficient airships brought it back into the international fold after its humiliation in World War I. But on May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg airship caught...

Bettina Göring's name is her legacy. As the great-niece of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, she grew up in the shadow of his crimes. Early on, she rebelled against her own family's history and escaped the connection to her uncle and into the world of hippies and free spirits of America. Only through confronting her family's dark side could she set herself free.

A fiercely brave Italian woman convinces a German soldier to work with the Resistance in this unforgettable World War II love story. Tuscany, 1940s. At 20 years old, Nada lives as the single mother of a toddler. Her husband has left to fight in Africa, her family is far away, and she knows...

From the award-winning author of Plunder (a New York Times Best Nonfiction of the Year) Gold’s Fools is the stranger-than-fiction investigation into a 80-year-old mystery of Nazi treasure and two best friends who are now willing to destroy each other to solve it. It started with a tip—an...

I 1949 i efterkrigstidens hårdt ramte Tyskland er forholdene kaotiske, og landet er som et betændt sår fuld af lyssky aftaler, voldsom grådighed og flygtende krigsforbrydere på jagt efter nye identiteter. Kort sagt en tilstand, hvor der er rigeligt at lave for den hårdkogte privatdetektiv...

The War Correspondents unveils the extraordinary bravery and unmatched literary legacy of the journalists who risked their lives to cover WWII’s European Theater Ernie Pyle, John Steinbeck, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Ernest Hemingway, Bill Mauldin, Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White...

The Shipyard Agent reveals the untold story of Augusta Clawson, the undercover investigator who helped shape the future for World War II’s women welders. From the Pacific Northwest to the Gulf Coast and up the Eastern seaboard, during World War II women welders worked at a fever pitch in the...

This WWII memoir by a decorated Nazi officer and war criminal offers a vivid account of German operations across Europe and the Eastern Front. Known for his bold and aggressive leadership, Kurt "Panzer" Meyer was one of the most highly decorated German soldiers of World War II. He successively...

Stalingrad was one of the largest, bloodiest, and most famous battles in history as well as one of the major turning points of World War II. For four winter months during the battle, German and Soviet forces fought over a single factory inside the city of Stalingrad. Lavishly illustrated with...

From American heiress to Nazi resistance fighter, Muriel White's extraordinary journey reveals how one woman's privilege became her weapon against tyranny. "This compelling tale traces the intricately intertwined history of American high society with European nobility in the face of rising...

Berlin, 1933. Enorme bål af forbudte bøger oplyser nattehimlen. Nazistpartiet vokser, Berlin er ikke længere et sikkert sted for unge Freya. Hun kan kun se forfærdet til, mens fascismen siver ind gennem alle sprækker i hendes elskede by – og den ellers lovlydige Freya må træffe et valg...

Milano, 1944. Under Anden Verdenskrig hjælper teenageren Pino jøder med at flygte i bjergene. Kort efter bliver han spion for modstandsbevægelsen, da Hitlers højre hånd i Italien ansætter ham som sin chauffør. Pino bliver førstehåndsvidne til en lang række historiske og brutale...

Mød din nye ven Eddie. Han blev født i Tyskland i 1920. Under Krystalnatten blev han tævet halvt til døde. Han sad i kz-lejrene Buchenwald og Auschwitz. Som slavearbejder gik han rundt med et skilt om halsen, hvor der stod, at han skulle hænges, hvis han begik en fejl. Da krigen sluttede...

World War II began at Hollywood and Vine. From the moment Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, there was no American city he wanted to rule more than Los Angeles. Control the moviemaking capital of the world and Hitler could control the message that came out of it: As clear as black and white...

Mesmo após setenta anos do início da Segunda Guerra Mundial, completados em 2009, ainda é impossível separar o nome de Adolf Hitler do maior genocídio da história da humanidade. Um conflito atroz, que o mundo jamais conseguiu perdoar. Hitler, seu...

Bertram Ramsay has acquired almost mythical status in the history of the Second World War, firstly as the principal organizer of the Dunkirk evacuation and then as naval commander of the Allied invasion of Normandy - in the eyes of many, 'the organizer of victory'. But because Ramsay was killed in January 1945 and never wrote his own memoirs, his life has until now been difficult to pin down. Andrew Gordon, author of The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command, writing with the help of Ramsay's descendants, now describes the career of this intense and territorial man.

Known as "Hitler's Filmmaker," Leni Riefenstahl directed two of the most innovative and effective propaganda documentaries ever made, Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia (1938), which glorified the Third Reich. In this definitive biography, Steven Bach illuminates the truths and lies...

Top World War II aces of the RAF, USAAF, and the Luftwaffe recall the greatest aerial missions in this thrilling program. There is Douglas Bader, one of the best of the RAF fighter pilots despite 2 artificial legs, Adolf Galland of the Luftwaffe, who, subsequent to being shot down in France one...

George MacDonald Fraser—beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels—offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the war’s final year, and he offers a first-hand glimpse at the camaraderie, danger...

Listen to the definitive narrative history of the people, politics, and events of the Second World War - the conflict that shaped the modern world. From the build-up to the fighting, through to the reverberations still felt in the aftermath, this is a compelling, accessible, and immediate...