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The dropping of two atom bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their shocking aftermath finally ended World War II in the eastern theatre. But they weren't the only experimental weaponry at the time. In this fascinating account, Chris McNab examines the development of a range of hitherto unknown and at times shockingly effective weapons that were developed and unleashed on an unsuspecting world over the course of the war.

Da nazisterne i 1943 indledte forfølgelsen af jøder i Danmark, flygtede hovedparten af de danske jøder til Sverige. For nylig er det kommet frem, at en del af dem måtte efterlade deres børn i Danmark. Disse børn kaldes i dag de gemte børn. I denne bog fortæller 11 af disse børn, hvordan det at være et 'gemt barn' har præget resten af deres liv.

From Kisvárda to Canada: My Mother’s Holocaust Journey, author Brian Claman documents the true story of his mother, Maria (Mary) Katz Claman, a Hungarian Jewish teenager deported from Kisvárda to Auschwitz-Birkenau in June 1944. Tattooed with number A12064, she survived Auschwitz, forced labor at HASAG-Altenburg, a death march, and liberation in 1945.

Günter Bödekker bietet eine umfassende historische Darstellung der deutschen U-Boot-Kriegsführung im Zweiten Weltkrieg – von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des U-Bootkriegs.

Poland, 1942. Chaya is a seventeen-year-old daydreamer whose life is turned upside down when the Nazi regime invades her home. When her father and brother are brutally murdered, she and her mother are banished to the ghetto. When all the Jews of the ghetto are instructed to round up at the front gate, Chaya and her mother fear that the end is near. But miraculously, Chaya manages to slip away, escaping from the ghetto unseen. She wanders from hiding place to hiding place, suffering many hardships, assisted by good people who are willing to risk their lives to ensure her safety.

En medrivende historie om en gruppe modige, unge danske mænd, der – ofte ad omveje, der førte dem kloden rundt – kom til at flyve Spitfires i allieret tjeneste. Det er krigens år fortalt gennem en personlig historie – om flugt fra Danmark, lejrliv og kampmissioner. Det er viljen til (og kampen for) at gøre en forskel og kæmpe for friheden, ofte med livet som indsats.

A partir d'un large éventail de sources, pour la plupart inédites, la première partie de cette biographie exemplaire raconte la vie et l'ascension du bras droit d'Hitler, de sa naissance au déclenchement de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elle éclaire en particulier la mise en œuvre de l'Etat SS et la montée en puissance du premier d'entre eux, favorisée par la Nuit des longs couteaux et les luttes de pouvoir au sein de l'entourage du Führer.

Partir à la découverte de soi-même peut mener sur d'étranges chemins. Pour se ressourcer et faire le point sur sa vie, Stéphane Allix entame une retraite chamanique en forêt amazonienne. Il ignore qu'il va se confronter à l'impensable. Lors d'une étrange expérience, une vision s'impose à lui : un soldat de la Seconde Guerre mondiale meurt, touché à la gorge. Le nom de cet homme et d'autres informations lui parviennent également en pensée. L'expérience est extrêmement troublante. Pourquoi ressent-il une telle intimité avec ce personnage ?

In diesem Erlebnisbericht tauchen wir in das eindringliche Werk von Peter Bamm ein, der als Kriegschirurg an der Ostfront den Wahnsinn und das Grauen des Zweiten Weltkriegs hautnah erlebte. Das Hörbuch erzählt nicht nur den Kampf ums Überleben, sondern auch die moralischen Abgründe, den Schmerz, das Leid und die Hoffnung der Menschen inmitten der Hölle des Krieges. Es ist eine Geschichte, die zum Nachdenken zwingt – über Menschlichkeit, Schuld, Verantwortung und die unsichtbare Flagge, die jeder von uns in sich trägt.

As D-Day looms, three crack commandos parachute into enemy territory on a high-stakes mission of lies and deception. To succeed—and to save D-Day—they’ll need to get arrested by the Nazis. By March 1944, World War II had raged for four and a half years. Tens of millions were already dead...

This work takes listeners to two countries ravaged by World War II, Poland and Japan, recounting the wartime experiences of teenagers Bogdan and Seiko. Bogdan’s family abandoned its home in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and fled to Warsaw, where Bogdan fought for the Polish Home Army in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. During this brutal conflict, as Poles tried to oust occupying Germans, Bogdan sustained severe injuries, and after the Germans crushed the Uprising, he endured seven POW camps. On the other side of the globe, in Hokkaido, Japan, Seiko’s country went to war against the U.S.

Towards the end of the Second World War, a tragedy unfolded that many people are still not aware of. The granddaughter of a Countess, Anita, learns not to follow the traditional way of doing things. Heavily reliant on her intuition, which ultimately saved the life of herself and her daughter. She guides her family as they make their escape from East Prussia as the Russians make their final advance.

Familien Bogs er en fortælling om den dansk-tyske familie Bogs' skæbne i det 20. århundrede – fortalt af Kirsten Bogs Andresen, lillesøster til bokseren Tom Bogs. Men det er også historien om næste generation – om Tom Bogs, der trods en kaotisk barndom formår at kæmpe sig til tops i den internationale bokseverden. En familiekrønike om krig, kærlighed, skyld og tilgivelse – og om, hvordan fortidens traumer kaster lange skygger over fremtidige generationer.

One afternoon David Singer was performing at the White House and that evening he was back behind the wheel of a New York City taxi. He shared the stage at Carnegie Hall with legends of classical music, only to find himself weeks later scaling fences and evading guard dogs to sell welding supplies before dawn.

From an award-winning historian, the gripping, singular story of the destruction of Jewish Vienna as seen through the letters and diaries of an extraordinary woman who witnessed it all. In 1922, Hugo Bettauer published the novel The City Without Jews, a satirical critique of Austrian...

The remarkable true story of a Canadian paratrooper’s escape from behind enemy lines following the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. Ideal for listeners of James Holland, Anthony Beevor and Cornelius Ryan. On September 17, 1944, over 8,000 men of the British 1st Airborne Division landed in German-occupied Netherlands as part of the largest airborne invasion ever undertaken. Twenty-two-year-old Canadian paratrooper Leo Heaps was one of them.

Esta Historia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial es un hito en la bibliografía sobre la materia que nunca ha tenido una edición adecuada en español. Ahora, por fin, más de medio siglo después de su edición original en inglés, recupera todo el esplendor propio de un clásico indiscutible, con una nueva traducción y unos mapas redibujados para la ocasión.

A FORGOTTEN MANUSCRIPT. A FAMILY SECRET. AND THE URGENT NEED TO TELL THE WORLD ABOUT THE CHILDREN HITLER WANTED DEAD. THE TRUE STORY OF THE MISCHLINGE. Mischling (plural: Mischlinge): a cruel, derogatory term created by the Nazi regime to brand those of 'mixed blood'; children born to both...

Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A Lucky Child. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father...

This unique memoir by the grandson of General George S. Patton Jr. offers a rare and intimate look into the life of the legendary man and the legacy he passed down from one generation to the next.