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The Eastern Front 1941-43
Book 5 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Part of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War series, The Eastern Front 1941-1944, is an authoritative and accessible introduction to the brutal confrontation between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union along a 1,200 mile front.
Historian, author and broadcaster James Holland draws...
Hope and Honor
A Memoir of a Soldier's Courage and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Major General Sid Shachnow was more than a highly decorated Vietnam War veteran--receiving two silver and three bronze stars with V for Valor. He survived a crucible far crueler than the jungles of Vietnam: Nazi occupied Eastern Europe. As a child, he spent three years in the notorious Kovno Concentration...
Anatomy of Malice
The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
When the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, tried to fathom the psychology of the Nazi leaders, using extensive psychiatric interviews, IQ tests, and Rorschach...
Si Lewen's Parade
An Artist's Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Si Lewen’s Parade is a timeless story told in a language that knows no country—a wordless epic that, despite its muteness, is more powerful than the written or the spoken word. First published in 1957, The Parade is a lost classic, newly discovered, remastered, and presented by Art Spiegelman,...
by Jacqueline George
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
When Field Marshall Hermann Goering, Deputy Führer and commander of the Luftwaffe, appeared before the Nuremberg Tribunal in 1946, the world was watching. Much of Europe had directly suffered through the war that he and the Nazi system had brought to the continent, and now he would have to answer...
Zussen
een oorlogsverhaal
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Wanneer Nederland wordt bezet door de nazi’s, proberen drie Joodse zussen ieder op hun eigen wijze hun leven en dat van hun familieleden te redden. De een duikt onder, de ander ontsnapt met vervalste papieren aan de bezetter en de derde vlucht naar Engeland. Hoewel hun wegen zich scheiden, worden...
One Step Ahead
A Jewish Fugitive in Hitler's Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2001
Through compelling personal accounts and family correspondence, One Step Ahead documents Alfred Feldman’s harrowing flight into exile as he and his family fled the pogroms that flooded across Nazi-occupied Europe. It is a memoir of horror and hope recounted by a man who survived the organized terror...
by Ralph Moratz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The true account of Ralph Moratz's escape from Nazi Germany as a young boy. His journey took him through France and Spain, finally reaching freedom in America.
This is his story, in his own words.
by Joseph Tenenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
This is the story of a people, its origin, its history, its struggle for survival and its tragic end—the life-and-death story of Polish and other Eastern European Jewries. It is all this and more; more than a mere historical sketch or an episodic narrative of human greatness, more than a record...
by Micheline Maurel
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Micheline Maurel was a well-noted academic who had achieved a measure of recognition before the advent of the Second World War, she was appointed Professeur de Lettres at Lyon 1941-1942 in the Nazi-Occupied zone of France. However, by night, she was a clandestine member of the French resistance, acting...
German POWs, Der Ruf, and the Genesis of Group 47
The Political Journey of Alfred Andersch and Hans Werner Richter
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This work explores the experiences of Hans Werner Richter and Alfred Andersch, authors who served in the German army during World War II, were captured by U.S. forces, and enlisted into a secret program to promote American democracy to their fellow POWs while imprisoned in the United States. Upon...
by Joyce Tholo
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Kitso paused for a moment and then asked: “Does your bank do that, daddy?”“Do what, honey?” he asked, clearly not seeing the link between the question and BestBank.“Finance wars like the banks did during World War Two,” she said as she looked at him wide-eyed.“No way,...
by John Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2011
The largest, most complex and most destructive war humanity has yet fought, the Second World War escapes easy description.
Spirit over Steel is more than just a chronology of the war's main events, it also weaves in hundreds of individual threads into the tapestry of the whole conflict and...
Anne Frank House Amsterdam
Anne's Secret Annex turned into Museum
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Want to visit the Anne Frank House? Must read before you visit Amsterdam
One of the most popular museums in Amsterdam, the Anne Frank House, attracts over 1.2 million visitors a year. A museum you should definitely see when you are in Amsterdam (Holland). It was the hiding place during the...