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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: Narrative that is direct, candid, and unpretentious. A member of a highly privileged caste in Soviet society... reduced to a 'mozho' girl mixing with foreigners, with instructions to report on them... the real story is in the simple, graphic and almost entirely, persuasive account of her observations, some amusing and others horribly or pitifully gruesome.
In the unforgiving WWII climate of 1940, 21-year old Nora is, faced...
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Des témoignages poignants de prisonniers de guerre durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale
«Ils m'ont volé mes plus belles années », m'a un jour confié Marcel Goffin, 20 ans en 1940 et prisonnier en Allemagne jusqu'en 1945.
Combien ont-ils été, jeunes hommes et femmes, à subir le même sort? Combien restent-ils aujourd'hui à pouvoir raconter? Leur nombre se réduit forcément d'année en année, hélas. Pour éviter que leur histoire s'efface...
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First published in English in 1959 and long unavailable, Rachmil Bryks's vivid stories portray Jewish life in the Lodz ghetto and at Auschwitz. In a spare and tragicomic style, they illuminate the small and large absurdities that arise at the limits of human endurance-from the cooking of "roast meat" made of cabbage leaves to the predicament of Jews forced to cooperate in the hierarchy of their own annihilation. Deceptively simple and often humorous,...
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Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The Holocaust St. Maximilian Kolbe is famous as the saint of Auschwitz who volunteered to die of starvation and thirst in place of another prisoner. But his heroic death in 1941 in the worst of the Nazi concentration camps was only the culmination of an amazing life-for St. Maximilian was fired by the supernatural ideal of conquering for Christ through Mary all souls in the entire world-to the end of...
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This WWII history vividly captures the Hungarian tanks and military vehicles that fought in Central and Eastern Europe through rare wartime photographs.
The Kingdom of Hungary emerged from the Great Depression as a staunch ally of Germany and Italy. In the Second World War, the Central European country not only organized its armed forces in support of the Axis Powers, but also developed its own military industry to supply weapons and equipment to...
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The cities of Los Angeles and San Diego were boomtowns during World War II. California aviation companies designed many of the greatest combat aircraft of the era, and bustling armies of women and men helped quickly churn them out by the thousands. An astounding 41 percent of all US warplanes came from California drawing boards during the war. These planes saw combat service everywhere-from the deserts of North Africa to the frozen tundra of Alaska....
5047) Bradley
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Alan Axelrod applies his signature insight and compelling prose to the life, strategy and legacy of the general Bradley who remains the model for all commanders today as the man who revolutionized the National Guard, shaped the US army's focus on the individual soldier, and emphasized cooperation and coordination among the military services--a cornerstone of modern U.S. military doctrine.
Dubbed by the World War II press as "The GI General" because...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Nuremberg trials in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Nuremberg trials. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the world was slowly coming round to the large-scale atrocities committed by the Nazis. The Allies recognised the need for international jurisdiction on war crimes and crimes against humanity, such as...
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This book is the story of the former Hungarian Zionist leader, Joel Brand, as told to Alex Weissberg, author of The Accused, which told of his experiences as a prisoner of the Soviet secret police. Most of Desperate Mission: Joel Brand's Story (1958) is devoted to an account of how Brand came to be in a position to negotiate with the Nazis for the lives of a million human beings and what he did to carry out his incredible mission. Written with all...
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A revelatory portrait showing how the famed British statesman created a network of American colleagues and friends who helped push our foreign policy in Britain's favor during World War II
Winston Churchill was the consummate networker. Using newly discovered documents and archives, Churchill's American Network reveals how the famed British politician found a network of American men and women who would push American foreign policy in Britain's direction...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le procès de Nuremberg en moins d'une heure !
Novembre 1945. Un procès unique en son genre s'ouvre à Nuremberg. Son objectif? Juger 24 dirigeants nazis et 8 organisations accusés de crimes contre la paix, de crimes de guerre, de crimes contre l'humanité et de complots. Pendant dix mois, c'est une cascade de révélations qui laisse entrevoir la folie de l'Allemagne d'Adolf Hitler. Très médiatisé,...
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OBJECTIVE: EXTERMINATION "There were in reality three Auschwitz camps… Auschwitz I...with its two ovens and the mild death rate of a thousand or so per day. Auschwitz II...where the death rate was stepped up to six thousand per day, with a world record of twenty-two thousand deaths in twenty-four hours. Auschwitz III was the labor camp...." In the labor camp, they had a grim motto: "Labor unto death." But all three camps were dedicated to the "problem...
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The author relies to a great extent on contemporary accounts of a large number of British men-and women-who were unwittingly caught up in this appalling war. As well as surviving the efforts of their determined enemy, the Russians, they had to overcome the harshest weather, rampant disease and woefully inadequate administrative support. As revealed to a shocked nation by the first war reporters, medical care was largely non-existent and wounded faced...
5054) Smoke Over Birkenau
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Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The Holocaust Arrested by the Gestapo in 1942 for involvement in the resistance, the author spent three years in Birkenau. Severyna Szmaglewska (1916-1992) began writing this book immediately after escaping from an evacuation transport in January 1945, and it is the first account of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and an eloquent and important analysis of the individual experience of modern war. It was...
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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 of fighting gallantry and Nazi gore. It is the epic of a people, its prose and its poetry, its piety and devotional consecration, its visions of a heavenly...
5056) St Nazaire Raid, 1942
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The raid on St Nazaire has gone down in history as one of the most daring commando raids of all time. Given the code name of Operation Chariot, it took place in the early hours of Saturday, 28 March 1942, and was a joint undertaking by the Royal Navy and British Commando units. The port at St Nazaire, which sits on the Loire estuary and the Atlantic Ocean, has a dry dock that was capable of accommodating some of Germany's biggest naval vessels, such...
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During World War II, training in the black arts of covert operation was vital preparation for the "ungentlemanly warfare" waged by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) against Hitler's Germany and Tojo's Japan. In the early years of the war, the SOE set up top secret training schools to instruct prospective agents in the art of being a spy. Soon there was an international network of schools in operation in secluded locations ranging from the Scottish...
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"Goulty tells the story from the perspective of the ordinary sailor or officer who was there."-The Northern Mariner
Although many books have been written about naval actions during the Second World War – histories and memoirs in particular – few books have attempted to encompass the extraordinary variety of the experience of the war at sea. That is why James Goulty's vivid survey is of such value. Sailors in the Royal Navy and the Merchant...
5059) Not So Wild a Dream
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In this captivating first-person account, Eric Sevareid describes in thrilling detail his time as a journalist covering international affairs during World War II. From a young man in North Dakota to an instrumental figure in establishing CBS as an international news organization, Sevareid witnessed the shaping of America's journalistic landscape. His experiences provide an invaluable glimpse into the trials and tribulations of a dogged reporter. With...
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On the night of 13/14 October 1939, the Type VIIB U-boat U-47, on its second War Patrol, penetrated the main Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow and sank the British battleship HMS Royal Oak. This legendary attack is remembered as one of the most audacious raids in the history of submarine warfare.
Laid down on 25 February 1937 and entering service in December 1938 under the command of Oberleutnant zur See, later Kapitänleutnant Günther Prien, after...
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