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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Rommel in the Desert
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd The JG 7
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Little, Brown Book Group A Soldiers Story
Book Synopsis''This captivating account . . . is the story of an ordinary soldier, but an extraordinary man. I commend this book most warmly.''Richard Dannatt, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, Chief of the General Staff 2006-9''The amazing account of a young man, Neville ''Timber'' Wood, who, despite fighting in many of the major engagements of the Second World War, including Dunkirk, El Alamein and D-Day, survived to become a much-loved husband and father . . . brilliantly written . . . I highly recommend it''Eleanor TomlinsonThe son of a Hull butcher, Neville ''Timber'' Wood volunteered in 1939, at the age of eighteen, to join the British Army''s Tyne-Tees 50th Northumbrian Division. Timber was in many ways an entirely unremarkable soldier - he won no medals for gallantry, though he exhibited conspicuous bravery day after day, for years, and he rose no higher through the ranks than Lance Corporal. Nonetheless, he had an extraordinary wTrade ReviewA time when innocent lives were threatened by a ruthless enemy, when people of all ages lived in fear. Sound familiar? No it's not 2020, but 1939, and a generation of young men and women rallied to the cause to fight fascism, oppression and tyranny so that future generations could have their freedom and hopefully live in peace. A Soldier's Story is the amazing account of one such young man, Neville 'Timber' Wood, who, despite fighting in many of the major engagements of the Second World War, including Dunkirk, El Alamein and D-Day, survived to become a much-loved husband and father. It's brilliantly written and recounts the courage, determination, dedication and, somewhat surprisingly, the humour of the soldiers involved. I highly recommend it. -- Eleanor Tomlinson
£15.00
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Possum Clover Hades
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£36.89
Schiffer Publishing Ltd German 20mm Flak in World War II
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Attack Conquer The 8th Fighter Group in World
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£36.89
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Weapons and Equipment of the German
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£9.49
Harvard University Press Ghost Citizens
Book SynopsisFew Polish Holocaust survivors went home after liberation. Lukasz Krzyzanowski recounts the story of a group who did—the returnees of Radom. Bureaucrats tried to hold back their property and possessions to prop up the ruined state. And the returnees faced pogroms and even gangs of fellow Jews. Against it all, they struggled to rebuild their lives.Trade ReviewThey came back from the war, from the camps and from exile, only to face hostility, indifference, and loss. Yet some Polish Jews did decide to return to their devastated hometowns. Lukasz Krzyzanowski describes what happened to a forgotten group of Holocaust survivors who tried to rebuild their lives in a place where they were now ‘ghost citizens,’ alive but often unwelcome. -- Anne Applebaum, author of Iron CurtainFrom a brilliant young historian comes this insightful look at the immediate postwar period, a stellar example of what is known as the New School of Holocaust Studies in Poland. A must-read for anyone interested in the Holocaust and its aftermath. -- Jan T. Gross, author of NeighborsUtilizing a rare collection of Jewish community documents that survived World War II by a fluke, Krzyzanowski recreates the world of lawlessness, isolation, and intimidation experienced by Jewish Holocaust survivors who returned to the Polish city of Radom after the war. He deals with a sensitive topic with balance, empathy, and courage, adopting an appropriate tone that eschews accusatory histrionics on the one hand and distorted apologetics on the other. -- Christopher R. Browning, author of Remembering SurvivalThis compelling book takes us inside the daily struggles of Jews returning home in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Krzyzanowski shows that surviving was not only about making it through the camps but also dealing with the fear, loneliness, and violence of the postwar world. -- Tim Cole, author of Holocaust LandscapesA haunting microhistory of a time period, a community, and a place…An important book that will pave the way for further studies into the issues raised in Ghost Citizens and that is bound to inspire fresh perspectives on the return home after the Holocaust. -- Joanna Sliwa * H-Net Reviews *Impeccably well-researched. -- J. P. O’Malley * Irish Independent *A work of exceptional scholarship. * Choice *Superb, well-written, and thoroughly researched…beautifully translated…should appeal to both general readers and specialists. -- Samuel D. Kassow * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *
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Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd Hoodwinking Churchill
Book SynopsisNew information reveals how Britain's staunchly anti-communist Prime Minister was deceived into giving his full backing to the communist Tito and cutting all aid to the anti-communist forces resisting the Germans in Yugoslavia. The author argues, Tito would not have overcome his political opponents and emerged as the undisputed ruler after the war.Trade Review"this fascinating book ... The purpose of Peter Batty's excellent book is to describe what Churchill called 'one of the biggest mistakes of the war'" Daily Mail 20110722 5.0 stars out of 5. Peter Batty's absorbing book, based on scrupulous and wide ranging research, is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the dismemberment of former Yugoslavia by the Germans and Italians during the 2nd World War and its temporary reunification under Tito's brutal dictatorship. It convincingly challenges the myth, still not completely extinct, which credited the Croat/Slovene Communist Tito and his Partisans with providing the key resistance to the German occupation. Batty shows how the myth was based on material fed by Tito to Fitzroy Maclean and Deakin, Churchill's preferred but gullible envoys, and accepted as accurate by the British Prime Minister. This misleading version of events, questioned by our American allies and some British sources (though not by the B.B.C.), was bolstered by doctored intelligence supplied by a pro -Soviet mole working in the S.O.E. headquarters in Cairo. The development was accompanied by Britain's gradual abandonment of her previous allies, Mihailovic and his Serb royalist/nationalist Chetnik supporters, who were Tito's main rivals and victims and who, paradoxically, were regarded by the Germans as a far greater threat to them than Tito's Partisans. Batty also explains the contrasting policies adopted by the Germans and Italians towards the Serb resistance. His moving analysis of the character and motivations of the tragic and fundamentally honourable Mihailovic is entirely credible. He also shows how the British never fully understood that what was happening on the ground was as much a civil war as a resistance struggle. At the end of the war Churchill acknowledged that his unquestioning support of Tito had been a mistake but the myth of Tito as our staunch if Communist war time ally lived on in British public opinion, as did their belief in his mendacious claim that he and not the Russians had liberated Yugoslavia from the Germans. Peter Batty's account of Tito's highly skilful post war manoeuvring between the Communist and Capitalist blocs and his leading role in the Non Aligned Movement is equally fascinating and original. Tito's estrangement from Moscow (1948-55) intensified sympathy from Western governments who continued to court him. This was despite his brutal suppression of domestic opposition (largely ignored in the West), his fundamental attachment to Communist ideology and (with few exceptions) to Soviet foreign policy until his death in 1980, only a few years before the renewed fragmentation of Yugoslavia, this time from within. -- Giacomo Amazon Reader 20110822 5 stars out of 5. Long overdue expose This is a long overdue expose of one of Churchill's darkest secrets - and biggest mistakes - of the Second World War. Peter Batty is a highly respected documentary film-maker (producer/director of 6 episodes of the amazing World at War for example) and several years ago produced a big documentary on Tito for the BBC in which he met and interviewed many of the surviving witnesses to this episode in Churchill's life including many of the SOE agents flown into Yugoslavia during the war. As a result he has an incredible insight into the truth of this sorry tale of deception and blundering. It's a gripping read too and I highly recommend it to all readers. Amazon Reader 20110819 'The book answers many questions such as Tito's collaboration with the Germans particularly to thwart an Allied attack across the Adriatic, and his reign of terror and murder after WWII to eliminate all possible enemies. It also conclusively shows that the Partisans hardly harassed the German Army on its retreat in 1944, and did not liberate the country but spent most of their efforts fighting a Civil War to eliminate the forces of Mihailovic. Liberation was by the Red Army in Belgrade and the German evacuation.' South Slav Journal 20110815 'The research and referencing for the book is impressive and for any student of the period it will provide a valuable bibliography. A recommended read for any student of WWII and the Cold War.' Freedom Today 20110815 "Subtitled 'Tito's Great Confidence Trick', journalist and documentary film-maker Peter Batty's fascinating book explores new information to show how Britain's staunchly anti-communist Prime Minister was deceived into giving his full backing to the communist Tito, cutting all aid to the anti-communist forces resisting the Germans in Yugoslavia. But for that decision, the author argues, Tito would not have overcome his political opponents and emerged as the country's undisputed ruler after the war. That it has taken so long for the full story to emerge, the author suggests, is due to a concerted cover-up by a generation who had a vested interest in sustaining the myths surrounding Tito which they had helped to beget. In this the BBC played a controversial part. This book is both a telling biography of Tito and a convincing re-appraisal of the truth behind an important aspect of the wartime mythology." 20110910
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Aviation Books Ltd. Dambusters: The Complete WWII History of 617 Squadron
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Fonthill Media Ltd Silent Invaders
Book SynopsisCombat gliders were called by some as Death Crates, Purple Heart Boxes, Flying Coffins and Tow Targets . They were not pretty and had no graceful lines. Viewed from the front, they had a pug nose and a sloping Neanderthal forehead. Their wings looked like the heavily starched ears of a jackrabbit placed at right angles on a canvas-covered frame. Twice the length of the body, these wings were eighty-four feet in length, 70 per cent as long as the Wright Brothers first powered flight at Kitty Hawk. They could not become airborne, let alone fly, unless assisted by an engine-powered tow plane. And for those riding in the back, it was like flying through the gates of hell . The men who were trained and assigned to guide gliders into battle were said to be the only pilots who had no motors, armament, parachutes and no second chances. Like the aircraft they commanded, they were called inglorious names such as The Bastards Nobody Wanted, Glider Gladiators in Wooden Chariots; Hybrid Jackasses and Glory Boys. Beautifully written, profoundly illustrated and researched, Silent Invaders: Combat Gliders of the Second World War is a work that is dedicated to those brave men under impossible odds from the British and American servicemen on D-Day, the doomed Operation Market Garden in Holland and Hitler s radical commando raid to rescue Mussolini."Table of ContentsForeword; Preface; Part I The Machines: The Beginning; Pug Ugly and Deadly; Gliders in the UK; German Gliders; Japan and the Soviet Union; Tugs and Tows; PART II The Men and their Training: The Men; Training: Washed Out, RTU, and LMF; The Devil is in the Details; Part III The Missions (In Chronological Order): “Far Away Places, With Strange Sounding Names”; Another Route to War, Another Destination to Combat; Eben Emael: Old and Conventional vs New and Unconventional; Unternehmen Merkur Operation Mercury Crete; Operation Freshman; Sicily “This was a bad time for the Regiment”; Commando Skorzeny; Burma Operation Thursday/Project 9 “Tonight you’re going to find out if you have a soul”; D-Day Operation Overlord: Voices from Normandy; Southern France Operation Dragoon: Dingson 35A; Silent Invaders; Operation Market Garden; Nuts!; Operation Varsity 3 Hours, 20 Minutes: The Summer of ’45; Endnotes; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Photographic Appendix; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC P38 Lightning vs Bf 109
Book SynopsisAn exciting account of the aerial battles fought by the USAAF''s P38 Lightnings and the Jagdflieger''s Bf 109Gs for dominance over North Africa and the Mediterranean.USAAF fighter pilots experienced a baptism of fire when flying the technically advanced but fragile P-38 Lightning over North Africa in the wake of 1942''s Operation Torch. Their opponents were battle-hardened jagdflieger of the Jadgwaffe, flying the tried and tested Bf 109 in its very lastest Gustav iteration. Responsible primarily for escorting USAAF bombers attacking Afrika Korps installations in Tunisia, the P-38 units in North Africa had to develop effective tactics to defend the bombers against Luftwaffe fighter attacks. For several months the Lightning squadrons had to also cope with shortages of aircraft and spare parts, steady losses and a lack of replacement pilots. To survive, American aviators had to learn quickly. While it is difficult to definitively attribute victorTable of Contents(Subject to Confirmation) Introduction Chronology Design and Development Doctrine, Tactics, Leadership, Deployment of Forces The Strategic Situation The Combatants Combat Statistics and Analysis Aftermath Further Reading Index
£14.39
Scrawny Goat Books Hitler's Table Talk: The Complete Edition 1941-1944
£27.50
Park Row Books The Lost Girls of Paris
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£9.49
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Death Rattlers
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£39.09
Simon & Schuster The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Book Synopsis“One of the most important works of history of our time.” —The New York Times The fiftieth anniversary edition of the National Book Award-winning bestseller that is the definitive study of Adolf Hitler, the rise of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and World War II. This special edition features a new introduction by Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and How the End Begins.No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about its birth and destruction as the Third Reich. When the bitter war was over, and before the Nazis could destroy their files, the Allied demand for unconditional surrender produced an almost hour-by-hour record of the nightmare empire built by Adolph Hitler. This record included the testimony of Nazi leaders and of concentration camp inmates, the diaries of officials, transcripts of secret conferences, army orders, private letters—all the vast paperwork behind Hitler''
£34.00
Picador USA Savage Continent
Book SynopsisWinner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize A superb and immensely important book.Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostThe Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years...The end of World War II in Europe is remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, but the reality was quite different. Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed, and more than thirty million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for grantedsuch as police, media, transport, and local and national governmentwere either entirely absent or compromised. Crime rates soared, economies collapsed, and whole populations hovered on the brink of starvation. In Savage Continent, Keith Lowe describes a continent where individual Germans and collaborators were rounded up and summarily executed, where concentration camps were reopened, and viole
£20.80
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bolt Action Germany Strikes
Book SynopsisIn 1939, Germany shattered the peace of Europe with a lightning-quick strike against Poland. The next year, it captured Denmark and Norway, before launching its famous blitzkrieg against France, Belgium and The Netherlands. In less than two years of fighting, Nazi Germany had become the master of mainland Europe. This new theater book for Bolt Action allows players to command armies of Germany tanks in WWII driving across the lowlands or to lead the desperate defense of the outgunned allied armies.Table of ContentsIntroduction/ Special Rules/ Scenarios
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Echo Point Books & Media London Calling North Pole
£17.53
Texas A & M University Press The Lost Submarines of Pearl Harbor
Book Synopsis“One of the last remaining and persistent mysteries of the Pearl Harbor attack is that of the Japanese Midget Submarines. It is a fascinating story of innovation, courage, secrets, and failed expectations. And it is not only a story of the morning hours of December 7, but of the years before to develop these weapons and the years after, where they were deployed in the great Pacific War and how they fared as weapons of war.”These words by Daniel J. Basta, Director of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, from the foreword of this manuscript, capture both the essence and the impact of this work, assembled by James P. Delgado and his coauthors. Th e authors have combed the records of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the recollections of its veterans as well as US Department of Defense archives. They have logged hours of direct observation and research on the mini-subs in their final resting places, in some cases more than 1,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific. And in the end, they have woven a tapestry of scholarship, historical sleuthing, scientific insight, and good storytelling that will enthrall specialists and history buff s alike.
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Penguin Books Ltd Children of the Flames
Book SynopsisDuring World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this remarkable narrative, the life of Auschwitz's Angel of Death is told in counterpoint to the lives of the survivors, who until now have kept silent about their heinous death-camp ordeals.
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HarperCollins Publishers Human Voices
Book SynopsisFrom the Booker Prizewinning author of Offshore' and The Blue Flower'; a funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz.The human voices of Penelope Fitzgerald's novel are those of the BBC in the first years of the World War II, the time when the Concert Hall was turned into a dormitory for both sexes, the whole building became a target for enemy bombers, and in the BBC as elsewhere some had to fail and some had to die, but where the Nine O'Clock News was always delivered, in impeccable accents, to the waiting nation.Trade Review‘Reading a Penelope Fitzgerald novel is like being taken for a ride in a peculiar kind of car. Everything is of top quality – the engine, the coachwork and the interior all fill you with confidence. Then, after a mile or so, someone throws the steering-wheel out of the window.’ Sebastian Faulks ‘Wise and ironic, funny and humane, Fitzgerald is a wonderful, wonderful writer.’ David Nicholls ‘Of all the novelists of the last quarter-century, she has the most unarguable claim on greatness. [It has been] a career we, as readers, can only count ourselves lucky to have lived through.’ Philip Hensher, Spectator ‘One of the pleasures of reading Penelope Fitzgerald is the unpredictability of her intelligence, which never loses its quality, but springs constant surprises, and if you make the mistake of reading her fast because she is so readable, you will miss some of the best jokes. This is a very funny novel.’ The Times ‘Comic, and sometimes extraordinarily sad.’ A.S. Byatt, TLS
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Random House USA Inc Behind Enemy Lines
Book Synopsis[T]he amazing story of a woman who lived through one of the worst times in human history, losing family members to the Nazis but surviving with her spirit and integrity intact.” —Publishers WeeklyMarthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by their terrified parents. But soon her homeland was also under Nazi rule. As the Nazi occupation escalated, Marthe’s sister was arrested and sent to Auschwitz and the rest of her family was forced to flee to the south of France. Always a fighter, Marthe joined the French Army and became a member of the intelligence service of the French First Army. Marthe, using her perfect German accent and blond hair to pose as a young German nurse who was desperately trying to obtain word of a fictional fiancé, would slip behind enemy lines to retri
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HarperCollins Publishers Commandos
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Penguin Putnam Inc To Hell and Back
Book SynopsisChilling... To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinking…. Kershaw documents each and every ‘ism’ of his analysis with extraordinary detail and passionate humanism.—The New York Times Book ReviewThe Penguin History of Europe series reaches the twentieth century with acclaimed scholar Ian Kershaw’s long-anticipated analysis of the pivotal years of World War I and World War II. The European catastrophe, the long continuous period from 1914 to 1949, was unprecedented in human history—an extraordinarily dramatic, often traumatic, and endlessly fascinating period of upheaval and transformation. This new volume in the Penguin History of Europe series offers comprehensive coverage of this tumultuous era. Beginning with the outbreak of World War I through the rise of Hitler and the aftermath of
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd From Hitlers U-Boats to Kruschevs Spyflights
Book SynopsisThis book tells the tale of the illustrious Royal Air Force career of Tom Clark, a World War Two gunner and post-war signaller in action during some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. Lovingly penned by his son, it provides an authentic insight into this dynamic period of world history. From work as an air gunner, involved in the daunting task of taking on the might of Hitler's U-boat fleet, to post-war involvement in an Intelligence capacity during the dramatic events surrounding Khrushchev and the atomic threat of the late 1950s, Clark's career was dramatic and varied to say the least. Having joined the RAF as an aircraft man just before the Second World War, Clark was destined to take part in a whole range of wartime operational engagements. His career featured involvement in the famous 1941 hunt for the elusive Bismarck, the dangers of life as part of an Air Sea Rescue squadron in conflicted waters, and the experience of training as a gunnery leader (later an instructor), training air gunners for the famed Desert Air Force. His career also took in a fraught period behind enemy lines, when his crew of four were shot down in enemy territory in Northern Italy. Seven weeks in a safe house in Florence are relayed in engaging and dramatic style, as are a raft of other personal and professional achievements, set within the context of the wider conflict. Here is a career that deserves to be recorded and celebrated, and there is perhaps no-one better placed than the subject's son to act as custodian to his thrilling story.
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Oxford University Press Resisting Hitler
Book SynopsisResisting Hitler is a biography of the only American woman to have been executed for treason against Germany during World War II. Mildred Harnack was born in Wisconsin but moved to Germany with her husband in 1929 where she taught American literature. Both Mildred and her husband, Arvid (a professor of philosophy and a native of Gemany), socialised with the intellectual elite of Berlin. Appalled by the rise of Hitler, they joined with others to resist fascism by any means they could. Brysac''s exhaustive reasearch has found evidence to support the theory that both Mildred and Arvid gave classified information on Germany to both the Soviets and the US in an effort to sabotage the Nazis. Before and during the war, the Harnacks were founding and leading members of the Red Orchestra, an important covert intelligence group that transmitted messages of resistance with the use of contraband radios. In 1942, Hitler personally ordered their execution.That the heroic efforts of Mildred Harnack''Trade ReviewReview from previous editionResisting Hitler is one of the best researched books on the Second World War that I have ever read . . . Shareen Brysac has added greatly to our knowledge of anti-Nazi resistance in Germany. * Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday, 25/02/01 *splendid richly textured biography . . . . This is fine writing * Richard Overy, The Sunday Telegraph, 04/02/2001 *
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Fonthill Media Ltd The History of the Galician Division of the
Book SynopsisThe first volume of a two part set on the history of the Galician Division is based on over 25 years research by accomplished historian Michael James Melnyk who has sourced additional new and hitherto unseen original material on all aspects of the Division's history from archives and private collections in Europe, Australia, North American and Canada. Complemented by the individual accounts and contributions of many veterans which add an engaging personal dimension, this new definitive two volume account supersedes his earlier divisional history published in 2002. As a recognised authority on the subject he has produced the most reliable and exhaustive account to date lavishly illustrated with many rare and unique photos and crammed full of details, notes and references in this last ever book to include direct and new material from the participants.
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Anomalist Books LLC Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in World War II
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Wallflower Press Haunted Images – Film, Ethics, Testimony, and the
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University of California Press Beyond Anne Frank
Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with seventy Jewish men and women who, as children, were placed in non-Jewish families during the Nazi occupation of Holland, this book paints a portrait of Holocaust survivors whose experiences were often diametrically opposed to the experiences of those who suffered in concentration camps.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The History and Memory of Hidden Children 2. Before and During the War: The Netherlands and the Jews 3. After the War: The Jews and the Netherlands 4. "My Mother Screamed and Screamed": Memories of Occupation, War, and Hiding 5. "I Came Home, but I Was Homesick": When Both Parents Returned 6. "They Were Out of Their Minds": When One Parent Returned 7. "Who Am I?": Orphans Living with Families 8. "There Was Never a Kind Word": Life in Jewish Orphanages 9. Creating Postwar Lives, Creating Collective Memory: From the Personal to the Political Conclusion Notes Glossary References Index
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Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. Night
Book SynopsisA new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel''s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie''s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author''s original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man''s capacity for inhumanity to man.Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.
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University of California Press An Uncommon Friendship
Book SynopsisIn 1944, 13-year-old Fritz Tubach was almost old enough to join the Hitler Youth in his German village of Kleinheubach. That same year in Tab, Hungary, 12-year-old Bernie Rosner was loaded onto a train with the rest of the village's Jewish inhabitants and taken to Auschwitz, where his whole family was murdered.Trade Review"[A] remarkable book." Jewish Journal Of S.florida
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Battle for Leningrad 19411944
Book SynopsisThe German seige and Soviet defence of Leningrad in World War II was an epic struggle in an epic war, a drama of heroism and human misery unmatched in the annals of modern warfare. This work provides a military history of the conflict waged beyond the city's borders.Trade ReviewAn original and important contribution not only to the battle for Leningrad but also to a wider understanding of the Great Patriotic War. Drawing upon previously unavailable or neglected Soviet and German sources, it provides a major corrective to the shortcomings of previous accounts and will stand as a significant and durable achievement on a subject that continues to fascinate. John Erickson, Author Of The Road To Stalingrad; ""An outstanding contribution to the study of the Second World War as it was fought on the Eastern Front."" Malcolm Mackintosh, Author Of Juggernauti A History Of Soviet Armed Forces; ""An exceptional work on one of the great campaigns of World War II,"" James S. Corum, Author Of The Roots Of Blitzkrieg And The Luftwaffe
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Taylor & Francis The Battle for Kursk 1943 The Soviet General Staff Study Soviet Russian Study of War 10
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Coming Out Under Fire The History of Gay Men and
Book SynopsisDuring World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. Allan Berube examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontations.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Black and Field Gray Uniforms of Himmlerâs SS
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Sound Locators Fire Control Systems and
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Army Group North
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£29.59
Schiffer Publishing Ltd On the Highways of the Skies
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Sky Men
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Headline Publishing Group Arnhem Jumping the Rhine 1944 1945
Book SynopsisA riveting account of the Allies' victory at Arnhem by an expert in World War Two battle tactics and historyTrade Review'Among the thousands of books devoted to Second World War history only a small minority can claim to appeal to a wide audience. But through Lloyd Clark's narrative skill, ARNHEM is surely one of them' * Daily Telegraph *'Well stocked with dramatic personal accounts and much military detail' * Edinburgh Evening News *'This is an insightful and gripping account of what is widely considered the greatest airborne battle in history' * People's Friend *
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Soldiers of von Thoma
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd German Mountain Troops in World War II
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PeKo Publishing Kft. History of the Totenkopf's Panther-Abteilung
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£22.95
The History Press Ltd Love and War in London
Book SynopsisLove & War in London is rooted in the extraordinary milieu of wartime London. Vibrant and engaging, Olivia Cockett's diary reveals her frustrations, fears, pleasures and self-doubts. She recorded her mood swings and tried to understand them, and wrote of her lover (a married man) and the intense relationship they had. As she and her friends and family in New Scotland Yard were swept up by the momentous events of another European war, she vividly reported on what she saw and heard in her daily life. Hers is a diary that brings together the personal and the public. It permits us to understand how one intelligent, imaginative woman struggled to make sense of her life, as the city in which she lived was drawn into the turmoil of a catastrophic war.
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