Sarah Helm: 7 books

‘Ravensbrück’ van Sarah Helm is het standaardwerk over het grootste en beruchtste concentratiekamp voor vrouwen. In de Tweede Wereldoorlog hebben 160.000 vrouwen van alle standen en nationaliteiten gevangen gezeten in dit kamp. Zij werden gruwelijk en onmenselijk behandeld en velen van hen vonden...

In the summer of 2014 a 50-day conflict between Gaza and Israel saw the loss of over 2,200 Gazan lives, including scores of families classified as "erased". The world looked on with a mixture of horror and indifference, and the debate about the rights and wrongs polarised around intractable pro-Israeli...

From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britain’s premiere secret agents during World War II.  As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored special operatives...

A masterly and moving account of the most horrific hidden atrocity of World War II: Ravensbrück, the only Nazi concentration camp built for women   On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 867 women—housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes—was marched through the woods...

Les femmes, qui arrivaient parfois de nuit, croyaient être près de la côte car le vent y avait un goût de sel et elles sentaient le sable sous leurs pieds. Quand venait le jour, elles voyaient que le camp était construit au bord d’un lac et entouré de forêts. Himmler aimait que ses camps...

‘I felt I should say congratulations on winning the election but I couldn’t find the words...There were suddenly three of us in our relationship.’ In the weeks leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the pressure on the UK government to commit to joining the American cause was escalating....

Praise for the 1st Edition "Easy to read yet filled with facts and information, this is a solid reference guide with everything for the beginner – and perhaps something for the more experienced too." –Family History Monthly "There is a lot of good advice in this book...