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The famous journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich documents his front row seat at the pivotal events leading up to World War II. In the second of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer tells the story of his own eventful life, detailing the most notable moments of his career as a journalist stationed in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Shirer was there while Hitler celebrated his new domination of Germany, unleashed the Blitzkrieg on Poland, and began the conflict that would come to be known as World War II.

This book describes the odd coalition between Germany and Finland in World War II, and their joint military operations from 1941 to 1945. This is a topic often missing in English, though in stark contrast to the numerous books on the shorter and less bloody Winter War. That conflict represented a gallant fight of a democratic “David” against a totalitarian “Goliath” that caught the imagination of the world. The story of Finland fighting alongside a “Goliath” of its own has not brought pride to that nation and was a period many Finns would rather forget.

The Battle of Kursk was one of the most pivotal campaigns of World War II and Germany's final strategic offensive on the Eastern Front. Soviet armies had recently occupied the city of Kursk and the Germans aimed to pinch off the salient and cut off its supply chain. But Commander Erich von Manstein did not anticipate the Soviet's dramatic counter offensive, resulting in one of the bloodiest encounters of the Second World War which turned the tide against Adolf Hitler.

Japan's Holocaust combines research conducted in over eighteen research facilities in five nations to explore Imperial Japan's atrocities from 1927 to 1945 during its military expansions and reckless campaigns throughout Asia and the Pacific. This book brings together the most recent scholarship and new primary research to ascertain that Japan claimed a minimum of thirty million lives, slaughtering more than Hitler's Nazi Germany. Japan's Holocaust shows that Emperor Hirohito not only knew about the atrocities his legions committed, but actually ordered them.

The second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors about each of the atomic bomb drops, first in Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, that hastened the end of the Pacific War. On August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed a weapon...

'An indelible and enthralling work of moral witness' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE 'These questions of memory and impunity are forever timely' FINANCIAL TIMES 'An extraordinary achievement . . . I read with open mouth and thumping heart' STEPHEN FRY The house at 38 Londres Street in Santiago, Chile, is...

Discover the dark history of the Holocaust... Jewish communities have existed in the territories of modern-day Germany since Roman times, around the fourth century. By 1925, a census identified over half a million Jewish people living in Germany, accounting for around 1% of the total population. Jewish communities thrived in both economic and cultural terms, and Jewish people were active in commerce, science, the arts, and politics. During World War I, over 100,000 Jewish men fought in the Imperial German Army, demonstrating their commitment to the nation.

An “enthralling and authoritative” (The Wall Street Journal) political history of World War II that opens a window onto the difficulties of holding together the coalition that ultimately defeated Hitler—by the acclaimed author of Appeasement “A fine reassessment of Allied politics and...

Vera Atkins is one of the many unsung heroes and heroines of World War II. She carried out her life with great care and due diligence, quietly becoming the perfect spy when no one was watching. Beneath her polished exterior was a mind built for strategy, secrecy, and survival. But Vera wasn’t just a spy—she was a Spymistress. That’s what her operatives in Britain’s military intelligence unit, the Special Operations Executive, called her.

'The pacing and personal voice of Ruth makes for a gripping, focused story where the stakes are high. If you loved The Nightingale, you will love They called me Renee.' Heather Morris, internationally bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz 'Extraordinary... a luminous portrait of...

Autumn 1945 saw the start of the Nuremberg trials, in which high ranking representatives of the Nazi government were called to account for their war crimes. In a curious yet fascinating twist, witnesses for the prosecution and the defense were housed together in a villa on the outskirts of town. The Witness House reveals the social structures that allowed a cruel and unjust regime to flourish and serves as a symbol of the blurred boundaries between accuser and accused that would come to form the basis of postwar Germany.

Bloomsbury presents Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914 by Prit Buttar, read by Leighton Pugh Collision of Empires is the first major historical work on the Eastern Front during World War I since the 1970s. One of the primary triggers of the outbreak of World War I was...

Helmut Altner wurde zwei Tage nach seinem siebzehnten Geburtstag zum Wehrdienst eingezogen, um in den letzten Wochen des Unterganges des »Dritten Reiches« an der Oderfront und in Berlin zu kämpfen. Seine hauptsächlich aus Angehörigen des Jahrgangs 1928 bestehende Einheit wurde knapp hinter der Front ausgebildet und erlitt bei den Kämpfen während der sowjetischen Hauptoffensive an der Oder und beim Rückzug nach Berlin schwere Verluste...

Bloomsbury presents Aurore by Graham Hurley, read by Andrew Cullum. 'Historical fiction of a high order' The Times Barely half of the Bomber Command's aircrews survive a full tour, but wireless operator Billy Angell has beaten the odds and completed his 30th – and final – mission. Now, Billy...

Throughout a long and utterly unique and controversial life of public service, one of the towering figures of the 20th century Winston Churchill had an equally extended, far less known, but no less fascinating involvement with Spain and its people. Much of this was conducted in secret, and yet...

Cómo mueren las democracias y cómo logran consolidarse las dictaduras? En una época marcada por la polarización y la inestabilidad global, Revolución permanente: el Estado total en un mundo en guerra se erige como una lectura imprescindible para comprender la naturaleza del totalitarismo y...

Before they became numbers, they were children with names.They had homes, schools, family tables, favorite streets, prayers, books, toys, and dreams. Then Nazi persecution turned ordinary childhood into a fight for survival.The Children They Could Not Erase is a respectful, powerful historical...

In dieser Tagebuchreihe folgen wir den persönlichen Aufzeichnungen und Erinnerungen des deutschen Nachtjägerpiloten Peter Spoden durch die letzten Jahre des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Peter Spoden diente als Nachtjäger in der Luftwaffe und flog Einsätze bei den Nachtjagdgeschwadern NJG 5 und NJG 6...

In The OSS: America’s First Spy Agency, acclaimed historian Cyril Marlen peels back the curtain on the secret missions, eccentric characters, and dangerous innovations that defined the OSS’s short but seismic existence. From hidden radios tucked into shaving kits to jungle warfare in Burma, from psychological propaganda campaigns to midnight parachute drops into Nazi territory, this is the untold story of America’s first experiment with shadow war—and the people bold enough to carry it out.

The classic Second World War novel that inspired the acclaimed 1981 film 'Breathless, terrifying U-boat drama . . . a masterclass in economical, tight-space story telling, piling the pressure on both characters and audience' TIME OUT 'Riveting' NEW YORK TIMES 'Dynamic . . . striking...