検索キーワード： 第二次世界大戦

Après le succès littéraire et commercial de son récit Les Exportés, Sonia Devillers part à la recherche d'un admirable piano à queue, volé par les nazis en 1943. Ce qu'elle nous raconte est bouleversant, instructif, et magistralement mené. Le fabuleux piano est un instrument volé par les Allemands, en 1943, à des juifs qui le cherchent encore... Elle part alors sur les traces des pianos fantômes pillés par milliers sous l'Occupation et transportés jusqu'aux confins du IIIe Reich. Avec cet instrument de concert ressurgit l'incroyable destin d'une famille d'éditeurs de musique, les Enoch.

A gripping look at how SOE agents of World War II trained for their work in occupied territories, the tools they used, and the paths they took to ensure victory. At the start of World War II, Winston Churchill commanded the Special Operations Executive to 'set Europe ablaze'. To do this...

The definitive and moving account of America’s only World War II Holocaust refugee shelter. Nearly eighty years ago, the residents of a small town in upstate New York welcomed a group of refugees that changed the town forever. The 982 people were the only refugees to enter the United States...

An Avid Reader Press book. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader...

Ein emotionaler Einblick in das Schicksal der Zwangsarbeiter im Zweiten Weltkrieg – eine unmögliche Liebe zu einer deutschen Frau und die Ausdauer der menschlichen Willenskraft, einen Weg in die Freiheit zu finden. Bochum, April 1943: Die fünfundzwanzigjährige Marie Heinrich fristet auf sich allein gestellt – ihr Mann ist seit drei Jahren im Krieg – ihr Leben auf einem kleinen Hof. Marie, die in der Personalabteilung für die Einweisung der neuen Zwangsarbeiter zuständig ist, findet durch Adrien die Möglichkeit, mit den Fremden zu kommunizieren.

Robert Ley war Reichorganisationsleiter der NSDAP und baute die Deutsche Arbeitsfront zum größten NS-Verband auf. Nach dem Krieg war er im Nürnberger Prozess einer der 24 Hauptangeklagten. Sein Enkel Axel Spilcker erzählt nun die Lebensgeschichte seines Großvaters und die seiner Familie. Einem Urteil in den Kriegsverbrecherprozessen entzieht sich Robert Ley 1945 durch Selbstmord. Achtzig Jahre später, in einer Zeit, in der die Demokratie wieder unter Druck steht, macht sich sein Enkel auf Spurensuche.

In 1942, Cork-born Kay Summersby’s life is changed forever when she is tasked with driving General Eisenhower on his fact-finding visit to wartime London. The pair takes an immediate liking to one another and so begins a tumultuous relationship against all military regulations. Kay becomes...

It's Christmas time with our favourite Bomb Girls at the Phoenix Munitions Factory . . . with trouble ahead can their wishes still come true? The festive season is approaching and the Bomb Girls are determined to make this a year to remember. With Myrtle's health in decline, Edna's love life...

Zuzana’s story is a profound and powerful testimony of the horrors of the Holocaust, and a testament to the importance of amplifying the voices of its survivors today. Zuzana Ruzickova grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian Bach and the piano. But her peaceful...

A WWII prisoner of war, a resistance heroine and their incredible true story. In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. Josefine Lobnik is a Yugoslav underground resistance fighter; Bruce Murray a New Zealand soldier and prisoner of war. A crumpled...

Kathleen Hey spent the war years helping her sister and brother-in-law run a grocery shop in the Yorkshire town of Dewsbury. From July 1941 to July 1946 she kept a diary for the Mass-Observation project, recording the thoughts and concerns of the people who used the shop. Among the chorus of...

A fascinating portrayal of the German experience during the Second World War told through the eyes of the citizens of Berlin While our understanding of the Holocaust is well developed, we know little about everyday life in Nazi Germany. In this vivid and important study Roger Moorhouse portrays...

We like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one part of the story that has never been told. It features a group of MPs who repeatedly spoke out against their party and their government's policy of appeasing Hitler and Mussolini. Remarkably...

Nazi Wives explores these women in detail for the first time, skilfully interweaving their stories through years of struggle, power, decline and destruction into the post-war twilight of denial and delusion. Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Bormann, Hess – names synonymous with power and...

Drawing on unpublished diaries, letters and Gestapo files, Norman Ohler spins an unforgettable tale of love, heroism and sacrifice. Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet - and one of...

The epic story of the vastly outnumbered platoon that stopped Germany's leading assault in the Ardennes forest and prevented Hitler's most fearsome tanks from overtaking American positions, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Liberator. "A gripping saga about raw courage and...

"Their submarine was dead, one hundred and eighty feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Somehow they survived. They were tortured and beaten. Somehow they survived. Alex Kershaw has done it again as he brings to life World War II's greatest submarine survival adventure." --James Bradley...

From the author of national bestsellers The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter comes "a rousing tale of little-known heroes" (Booklist).The Few tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of eight young Americans who joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutrality laws and...

I 1953 udkom De fordømtes legion, en krigsknaldroman om skyttegravslivet i et strafferegiment, baseret på forfatterens egne oplevelser som frivillig soldat i tysk tjeneste under Anden Verdenskrig. Gennem de næste ti år blev Sven Hazel et af Danmarks mest berømte forfatternavne. Hans romaner...

A tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American...