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Six months after Pearl Harbor, the seemingly invincible Imperial Japanese Navy prepared a decisive blow against the United States. After sweeping through Asia and the South Pacific, Japan's military targeted the tiny atoll of Midway, an ideal launching pad for the invasion of Hawaii and beyond. But the United States Navy was waiting for them. Thanks to cutting-edge code-breaking technology, tactical daring, and a huge stroke of luck, the Americans under Admiral Chester W. Nimitz dealt the Japanese navy its first major defeat of the war.

かつて最も先進的とされた民主主義の崩壊と、狂気に満ちた独裁政治の誕生は、決して抗えない運命などではなく、日常の些細な選択の積み重ねでした。毎日の通勤時間や静かな夜の知的な思索に深く浸りたい時、歴史が...

脆弱的民主政体如何在短短十几年间被合法掏空，最终在极权狂热中走向自我毁灭的深渊？这部极具震撼力的政治历史纪实，带你重返二十世纪最为动荡的十字路口。它拒绝将灾难视为历史的必然，而是如同手术刀般精准拆解...

第二次世界大戦における戦略爆撃の圧倒的な破壊と、軍事指導者たちが抱えた倫理的ジレンマの衝突を、鮮烈なディテールとともに解き明かします。通勤の車中や一人静かに過ごす夜、歴史の深い影にと思索を巡らせたい...

The prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day, Stalingrad, and The Battle of Arnhem reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his ‘last gamble’ in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes in Belgium...

純粋な科学の探求はいかにして人類史上最も破壊的な国家プロジェクトへと変貌したのか、マンハッタン計画と原子爆弾の軌跡を紐解く濃密な歴史ノンフィクション。複雑な世界史の転換点をわずか2時間で立体的に把握...

狂信的なイデオロギーと過酷な現実との乖離がいかに巨大な帝国を崩壊へ導いたのか、第二次世界大戦における極限の意思決定を解き明かし、現代に通じる戦略的教訓を提示する歴史ノンフィクションです。毎日の通勤電...

The classic first-hand WWII narrative that chronicles the Marines’ savage five-day struggle to wrest Mount Suribachi from its tenacious Japanese defenders during their 35-day battle for Iwo Jima in 1945. Revised with a new introduction by the author and recently discovered photos, this book served as invaluable source material both for James Bradley’s best-seller Flags of Our Fathers as well as Clint Eastwood’s acclaimed film of the same name.

Discover the remarkable history of the Nuremberg Trials...In 1933, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, triumphant after the July 1932 elections, was the largest political party in Germany. The Nazis quickly banned all other political parties and proceeded to implement the policies which aroused the anti-Semitic sentiment of the German people. When the Allied Powers joined forces to fight the Nazis, they were determined to bring the German leaders to justice in an international court where they would be tried for their war crimes.

Brought to you by Penguin. Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in 20th-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts...

“A monumental new volume. . . . Revelatory, even revolutionary. . . . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable.” — The Boston Globe One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) Historian...

La Segunda Guerra Mundial fue y sigue siendo la guerra más grande de todos los tiempos. Más de cincuenta y cinco millones de personas fallecieron durante los seis años de actividad bélica. La cruenta guerra terminó cuando EUA utilizó un arma colosal jamás vista antes y considerada la más peligrosa hasta hoy en día: la bomba atómica. Setenta países participaron en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. De un lado estuvo Alemania junto a muchas otras naciones, por ejemplo, Japón e Italia. El otro bando estuvo conformado por potencias como Inglaterra, Francia, Estados Unidos, Rusia y China.

He Leadeth Me is a deeply personal story of one man’s spiritual odyssey and the unflagging faith which enabled him to survive the ordeal that wrenched his body and spirit to near collapse. Captured by a Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a “Vatican spy,” Jesuit Father...

Le 9 novembre 1942 dans la prison militaire de Berlin, après 18 mois de détention commune et quelques heures avant son exécution, Fernand Rahier faisait parvenir à André Thielemans ses mémoires destinées à sa femme. Le 10, André quitte Fernand et profite d'un transfert pour dissimuler dans ses propres affaires ces pages. Les divers magasins d'habillement des prisons furent donc pendant plus de deux ans et demi les fidèles gardiens des mémoires de Rahier.

The American occupation of Japan holds a singular and problematic place in the histories both of Japan and of American foreign policy. For the Japanese, the occupation marked the transition from war to peace, from authoritarianism to democracy, and from privation to plenty, making it a passage from one of the darkest chapters in Japanese history to one of the brightest.

Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness. From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in the 20th century.

Hiroshima was one of the great tragedies of WWII. But out of the devastation of the first atomic bomb, some survivors emerged, 25 courageous Japanese women who became part of a remarkable humanitarian epic. Victims of the atomic blast that ushered in the Nuclear Age, these women were brought to the United States in 1955, where they underwent reconstructive surgery to repair the ravages of the bomb. Schoolgirls when the bomb destroyed their futures, they began to remake their lives and re-create themselves. This is the compassionate, often bittersweet chronicle of the Hiroshima Maidens.

In the early years of the Third Reich, Hermann Göring, one of the most notorious leaders of the Third Reich, worked to establish his own personal army to rival Himmler's SS and Reichswehr. The result: a private Prussian police force which grew into one of the most powerful armored units in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht. This unit fought throughout the Second World War, meeting Anglo-American forces in vicious battles across the European theatres of Tunisia, Sicily, and Italy before finally being defeated by the Red Army on the Eastern Front.

Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to relatives in Kofu, only to be bombed out anew.

The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy. On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy...