Jeremy Dronfield: 7 books
Dr James Barry
A Woman Ahead of Her Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club
The Times Book of the Week
Dr James Barry was many things in his life: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, lady killer, eccentric. He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British Empire, outraged the military...
The Stone Crusher
The True Story of a Father and Son's Fight for Survival in Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was arrested by the Nazis. Along with his sixteen-year-old son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany, where a new concentration camp was being built. It was the beginning of a six-year odyssey almost without parallel. They helped build...
Beyond The Call
The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
This inspiring true story of veteran Air Force bomber pilot Robert Trimble, who laid his life on the line to rescue World War II POWs on the Eastern Front.
Near the end of World War II, thousands of Allied ex-prisoners of war were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eastern Front. With no food,...
A Very Dangerous Woman
The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia's Most Seductive Spy
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century’s greatest writers, the Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg was born in 1892 to indulgence, pleasure and selfishness. But after she met the British diplomat and secret agent Robert Bruce Lockhart, she sacrificed everything...
Hitler's Last Plot
The 139 VIP Hostages Selected for Death in the Final Days of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Revealed for the first time: how the SS rounded up the Nazis' most prominent prisoners to serve as human shields for Hitler in the last days of World War II
In April 1945, as Germany faced defeat, Hitler planned to round up the Third Reich's most valuable prisoners and send them to his "Alpine...
by Jeremy Dronfield
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 10, 2019
«Há muitas histórias do Holocausto, mas não como esta. A história de Gustav e de Fritz Kleinmann, pai e filho, contém elementos de todas as outras, mas é muito diferente de qualquer outra.»
Viena, anos de 1930.
A família Kleinmann vive um dia-a-dia pacato e tranquilo. Gustav trabalha...
De jongen die zijn vader naar Auschwitz volgde
Het waargebeurde verhaal van het gevecht van een vader en een zoon om te overleven
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Het waargebeurde verhaal van het gevecht van een vader en een zoon om te overleven
In 1939 werden Gustav Kleinmann, een Weense stoffeerder, en zijn zestienjarige zoon Fritz samen met honderden andere Joodse mannen gearresteerd door de SS. Losgerukt van hun familie werden Gustav en Fritz in...