Second World War Books
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Hungary and Geopolitics: The Second World War and
Book SynopsisGuiding principles: Do chronicle the past as it really happened, Leopold von Ranke stressed long ago. Abiding by his spirit, this volume narrates the Hungarian nations quest for defending a sovereign existence while caught in the middle of a German-Soviet geopolitical struggle decisively influencing life and death. The narrative also considers the diligent Hungarian Jewish communitys attempt of carrying on a normal life despite facing severe domestic and foreign impediments, eventually leading to the enormous Holocaust tragedy. The author is mindful of Baruch Spinozas plea of ridicule not, bewail not, nor scorn human actions, but understand them. Rationality also dictates reflection upon Albert Einsteins appeal: Morality is of the highest importance for our very existence depends on it. Historical observations: Despite attending to Hungarys destabilizing irredentism, Hitler sought no Hungarian invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, and demanded large Honved forces only after his defeat in Moscow; The Holocausts intrusion into Hungary was triggered by a German military occupation, while local collusion and collaboration assisted it; Horthy was a calculating politician but not an anti-Semite, resulting in his uneven, positive and negative treatment of the Jewish Magyars; Szalasi was an anti-Jewish zealot proposing expulsion, but not genocide; Christians individuals and institutions saved many Jewish Magyars; Swedish humanitarian Wallenberg was an American secret agent; Not an Alpine redoubt, but Festung Budapest defended the Reich; 1941-1945, circa 500,000 Jewish and 600,000 non-Jewish Magyars died; Intervention, war, and a coup ended the Old Order and the Magyar monarchy.
£29.66
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij With Hitler for Mother Russia
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£16.10
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Islamic soldiers serving in the Waffen-SS
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£19.76
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Agression under the Guise of Liberation
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£17.95
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij John Kay: Not Always an Easy Ride
Book SynopsisWORLD WAR 2. Tilsit, East Prussia/ Germany.Elsbeth Zimmermann is married to Fritz Krauledat. She is eight months pregnant when her husband is killed at the Russian front, wearing a German uniform.Early 1945. On the run for the Soviet Army, Elsbeth arrives as a desperate war refugee with her nine-month-old toddler Joachim in the bombed out State of Thuringia. That part of Germany will soon be occupied by the American Armed Forces. Although, by a strange twist of fate, she will end up in the Russian zone and she is stuck behind the Iron Curtain. Elsbeth is afraid for her son''s future.In 1949, Elsbeth will flee again. This time from the communist zone in East Germany, to a much freer West Germany. At night, in a very dangerous move, she and her five-year-old Joachim will crawl through a hole in the barbed wire. Joachim is suffering from a serious eye affliction, but that doesn''t stop him. He follows his dream in music and less than twenty years later he will score a huge hit with Born To Be Wild, introducing a new rage with his band Steppenwolf: hard metal rock. John Kay, as he is called by then, will become the most distinct rock singer ever born in Germany. This extremely atypical book gives an in-depth description of John Kay''s background. It is the story of a young man, who didn''t speak any English when he emigrated to Canada in 1958. For all immigrants who arrive completely orphaned in a foreign country, his passion is an example of what you can achieve with boldness and perseverance . and from time to time a bit of luck. Theo De Vos (Duffel, Belgium 1955) was an officer in the Belgian Air Force. History has always been one of his great passions. Since he was fourteen, he has also been a huge hard rock fan, especially of the band Steppenwolf. In this book, he magically weaves those two completely different themes.
£26.96
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Brothers in Arms
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£26.96
Aspekt Publishers The Soldier Life was in our Blood: Karl Ullrich,
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£17.95
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij STALINGRAD: The Battle and the Air Bridge to
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£22.46
Aspekt Publishers The Demise of a Division German Infantry Success
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£17.95
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV Heinrich Himmler
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£26.96
Gefen Publishing House I Am a Holocaust Torah
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£13.29
Gefen Publishing House Holocaust in Lithuania 1941-1945: A Book of
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£230.24
Gefen Publishing House Fragments of Memory
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£10.44
Gefen Publishing House In the Shadow of the Red Banner
Book SynopsisOver 500,000 Jews fought under the Soviet banner in World War Two, of which an approximate 40 percent gave their lives â the highest percentage of all the nations of the Soviet Union and among all the other nations that fought in the Second World War. Dr. Arad now sets the record straight on the immense contribution of Soviet Jewry.
£31.19
Gefen Publishing House Poems of the Holocaust
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£10.44
Gefen Publishing House And Every Single One Was Someone: Regular Edition
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£999.99
Gefen Publishing House Story of an Underground: The Resistance of the
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£30.59
Gefen Publishing House Child Survivors in the Shadows
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£15.29
Gefen Publishing House On the Wings of Faith
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£27.89
Gefen Publishing House Zagare: Litvaks & Lithuanians Confront the Past
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£15.29
Gefen Publishing House We Dared to Live: A Tale of Courage & Survival
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£15.29
Gefen Publishing House Nathan's Bitterness & Salvation
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£13.29
Gefen Publishing House Sifting Through Ashes: Words & Images
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£17.09
Gefen Publishing House All About Eva: A Holocaust-Related Memoir, with a
Book SynopsisRudy Brook had just passed the German bar exam and married his childhood sweetheart. Hitlers coming to power put an end to Rudys law career, and his wife, Eva, dashed his Zionist dream, insisting they emigrate to America instead of Palestine. Their arrival in 1938 on Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass) spared them that calamity and the even graver one to follow. But thats only half the story. Evas connections to the upscale refugee colony in Los Angeles led Rudy to become a gardener to stars such as Judy Garland, and Eva to become a masseuse to other celebrities, actor Alexander Granach among them. Granach was a big name in pre-Nazi Germany and featured in Ninotchka with Greta Garbo. His affair with Eva would wreak havoc on the budding Brook family and leave Eva with a life-altering decision about herself and the authors older brother. Harrowing yet uplifting, All About Eva combines elements of the memoir and the historical novel to tell a compelling tale of three remarkable individuals and the tumultuous times in which they lived.
£15.29
Gefen Publishing House Witness to the Dark: A Testimony of Survival
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£14.39
Blacksmith Books A Danger Shared: A Journalist's Glimpses of a
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£36.00
ACADEMIC STUDIES PR Crisis War and the Holocaust in Lithuania
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£125.62
Castlehurst Books Dare All Dangers
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£13.60
HarperCollins Publishers Moral Combat
Book SynopsisA clear, chronological narrative exploring many of the ethical dilemmas posed for real people during and after the Second World War.Trade Review‘This is Burleigh at his best…a consummate encapsulator, with a masterly grip on an enormous literature…it demystifies, and presses on us the moral imperative of self-examination’ Independent ‘A magnificent moral survey of the Second World War…a long, brilliant, original, opinionated and scholarly meditation on morality as it appeared, or failed to appear, during the last global conflict…Seldom has a study of the past combined such erudition with such exuberance’ Guardian ‘A powerful and timely book…this is one of the most important books on the Second World War to be published in recent years’ Evening Standard ‘As always the colour and power of Burleigh’s prose is outstanding’ Observer ‘Burleigh’s outstanding book reminds us some things should never be forgotten’ Sunday Times ‘Michael Burleigh has long been one of our foremost writers on the importance of ethics in history, and in this deeply researched , closely argued and well-written analysis of the moral issues thrown up by the Second World War he has reached the zenith of his career’ Sunday Telegraph
£17.09
HarperCollins Publishers The Bitter Sea The Brutal World War II Fight for the Mediterranean
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£999.99
Sand In My Shoes
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HarperCollins Publishers Deserter A Hidden History of the Second World War
Book SynopsisA poet, a gangster and an agent of the Resistance; 'Deserter' details three astonishing lives shaped by the decision to flee during WWII.During the Second World War, the British lost 100,000 troops to desertion, and the Americans 50,000. Commonwealth forces from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Britain''s colonial empire also left the ranks in their thousands. But, surprisingly, only one WWII deserter was executed for his crime.In Deserter', veteran reporter and historian Charles Glass gives voice to the powerful stories of three soldiers, two Americans and one Brit, who all ran from the conflict to meet with distinctly different fates. He follows each into the heat of battle, exploring the pressures that formed their decisions and the lasting impact of their choices. The result is a highly emotional and engaging study of an under-explored area of World War II history.Trade Review‘Sensitive and thought-provoking … As this compelling and well-researched book shows, the battlefield was not a place for heroes, but a place where young men were dehumanised and killed … Given such conditions who among us would not also have considered walking away?’ Sunday Telegraph ‘[These] stories of individual human beings who eventually cracked under the strain of hardly imaginable fear and misery – are wonderful, unforgettable acts of witness, something salvaged from a time already sinking into the black mud of the past’ Guardian ‘Gripping … painstaking … sympathetic … Glass reveals just how inglorious war really is’ The Times ‘Charles Glass gives us something rare – he describes war, it’s foulness and demonic chaos, not from the heroes’ point of view but from a human point of view … A valuable work’ Evening Standard ‘Remarkable’ Sunday Times ‘With his own skill and sensitivity, Glass recreates the inhuman scenes that pummel the other soldiers he examines … Glass displays an unusual degree of empathy and kinship with these men … refreshing and stimulating – history told from the loser’s perspective. 5*’ Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph ‘Glass’s humane and groundbreaking history brings these untold, often tragic stories to light’ Sunday Telegraph ‘An important and refreshing book, shedding light on a subject that deserves attention … deepens our understanding of the realities of modern warfare and is a welcome challenge to the unquestioning hagiography of “The Greatest Generation”’ Times Literary Supplement ‘This is a world of frustrated and degrading brutality, racism and moral stupidity, of opportunistic greed, corruption, fear, mental disintegration and crime … the more familiar narratives of war seem uplifting in contrast … if Glass makes little attempt at neutrality few readers will mind that … If you have tears, prepare to shed them now’ David Crane, Spectator
£12.34
HarperCollins Publishers Gi Brides The WarTime Girls Who Crossed The Atlantic For Love
Book SynopsisThe Sunday Times bestseller From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls, G.I. Brides weaves together the real-life stories of four women who crossed the ocean for love, providing a moving true tale of romance and resilience.Trade Review‘Apart from the strength of the individual stories, one of the richest things about this book is the detail: the atmosphere on the rackety old ships which took the war brides across the Atlantic; the hideous, humiliating medical inspections they had to endure before being deemed fit to enter the USA; the dreadful anxiety of waiting for men who had promised to meet them on arrival, but didn’t show up…’ Bel Mooney, Daily Mail
£11.39
HarperCollins Publishers SHRAPNEL
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Spitfire Women of World War II
Book SynopsisThe story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots.Why would the well-bred daughter of a New England factory-owner brave the U-boat blockades of the North Atlantic in the bitter winter of 1941? What made a South African diamond heiress give up her life of house parties and London balls to spend the war in a freezing barracks on the Solent? And why did young Margaret Frost start lying to her father during the Battle of Britain?They and scores of other women weren''t allowed to fly in combat, but what they did was nearly as dangerous. Unarmed and without instruments or radios, they delivered planes for the Air Transport Auxiliary to the RAF bases from which male pilots flew into battle. At the mercy of the weather and any long-range enemy aircraft that pounced on them, fifteen of these women died, among them Amy Johnson, Britain''s most famous flyer. But the survivors sharedTrade Review‘Thrilling…I love this kind of book.’ Times ‘Some of the Air Transport Auxiliary's female pilots may have objected to being called “tough” simply because they were women – but they were as tough as nails all the same, as this superb account makes clear. They flew unarmed, without instruments, in atrocious weather, and hardly paused to grieve when their comrades started crashing into hillsides. At long last these magnificent women have the tribute they deserve.' Sir Ranulph Fiennes ‘Impeccably researched and written…and absorbing.’ Times ‘Books of the Year’ ‘The strength of Whittell's book is as a collection of stories of unusual young women living colourful loves and doing skilled, resourceful, brave and risky work, which cost sixteen of them their lives.’ TLS ‘[a] most engaging book…[with] intensely human stories. Whittell tells the story with suspense, perfect context and technical detail. It is quite impossible to read Whittell's book without emotional engagement…one is all but overwhelmed by the sense of utter admiration. And of gratitude, indeed.’ Times ‘An eye–opening and at times very moving illustration of the courage and sacrifice of women who deserve to be remembered alongside their more celebrated male counterparts.’ Literary Review ‘The breadth of Whittell's research leaps of the page in telling encounters with the now–aged survivors’ The Scotsman 'Extraordinary stories of women who had little fear and minimal concern for the enormous step they were taking in banging “Good grief, it's a girl!” condescension on the head.' Good Housekeeping
£10.44
HarperCollins Publishers A Nurses War
Book SynopsisThe remarkable wartime diary of nurse Kathleen JohnstoneWarm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, this delightful diary brims with intelligence and humour.' Wendy Moore, author of Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain's Trailblazing Military HospitalThe second world war could not have been won without the bravery and selflessness of women on the Home Front. Women like Kathleen Johnstone.This first-hand story of one extraordinary but unheralded member of Britain's Greatest Generation' brings home with extraordinary lucidity and compassion the realities of wartime Lancashire.In 1943, Kathleen, then thirty, was a nurse-in-training at the Blackburn Royal Infirmary. For the next three years she kept a meticulous diary of her day-to-day existence, leaving behind a vivid record of the real-time concerns of a busy, thoughtful woman on the frontline of the war at home.Kathleen's days were never the same. She writes in clear and lively prose about life in the hospital: of her fellow nurses, her patients, about death and dying, and the progress of the war as wounded soldiers returned from Normandy in the summer of 1944. She muses on being working class, wartime austerity, and her anxiety about examinations. Here too are dances, Americans and a POW boyfriend in Germany. Kathleen's observations are witty, wry and astute but above all relatable, even today.Poignant and engrossing, Kathleen Johnstone's tale of trauma, romance and friendship will leave a lasting impression.Trade Review‘A born diarist – sensitive, observant, sometimes opinionated, never taking herself too seriously – Kathleen Johnstone gives us a wonderfully intimate and humane picture of a northern life towards the end of the war. In fact, a positive gem.’ David Kynaston, author of Austerity Britain ‘Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, the diary of student nurse Kathleen Johnson opens a fascinating window into the small joys and terrible tragedies of World War Two. From her delight at a “real egg” to her amazement at the new “wonder drug” penicillin, this delightful diary brims with intelligence and humour.’ Wendy Moore, author of Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital ‘An inspiring and uplifting record of wartime life in a hospital. Kathleen Johnstone's warmth and wit render her diaries a gripping read.’ Lucy Fisher, author of Women in the War: The Last Heroines of Britain’s Greatest Generation Praise for Nella Last’s Peace, from the same editors: ‘Extraordinary – tender, intimate, striking, heartbreaking and witty – it grants us the lovely and dignified privilege of knowing a stranger's heart.’ A. L. Kennedy ‘A social document of extraordinary interest and value.’ D J Taylor
£999.99
Altruistic Personality
Book SynopsisAn enligtening and powerful exploration of those who risked their lives to help others during the Holocaust—and those who did not—and what we must do to ensure that such a tragedy never occurs again.Why, during the Holocaust, did some ordinary people risk their lives and the lives of their families to help others—even total strangers—while others stood passively by? Samuel Oliner, a Holocaust survivor who has interviewed more than seven hundred European rescuers and nonrescuers, provides some surprising answers in this compelling work. Samuel Oliver delves into the profound acts of altruism that emerged during one of history''s darkest periods. Each interview provides a unique insight into the types of personalities that answer a call to action, and those that do not. By comparing these rescuers with bystanders, he provides a nuanced understanding of what drives people to act with extraordinary compassion—or to remain passive in the face of evil. Offering both a historical perspective and a roadmap for a more compassionate future, Altruistic Personality is not just a historical account—it is a call to action and a beacon for moral education. Relevant when it was first published and even more relevant today, Oliver argues that by understanding and fostering the traits of altruism, we can prevent future atrocities and bring out the better aspects of humanity.
£18.99
HarperCollins Where the Birds Never Sing
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£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Years of Extermination
Book SynopsisEstablishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany’s mass murder of Europe’s Jews. . . . An account of unparalleled vividness and power that reads like a novel. . . . A masterpiece that will endure. — New York Times Book ReviewThe Years of Extermination, the completion of Saul Friedländer''s major historical opus on Nazi Germany and the Jews, explores the convergence of the various aspects of the Holocaust, the most systematic and sustained of modern genocides.The enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews depended upon many factors, including the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, and the passivity of the populations, primarily of their political and spiritual elites. Necessary also was the victims'' willingness to submit, often with the hope of surviving long enough to escape the German
£21.59
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Bielski Brothers
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HarperCollins Death on the Black Sea T
Book SynopsisDiscusses the harrowing 1942 events and tragedy of the Struma, a disabled ship that was trying to rescue eight hundred Jewish passengers from Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe before it was mysteriously sunk by a Russian submarine. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
£13.29
HarperCollins The Will to Live on This Is Our Heritage
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Perpetrators Victims Bystanders
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£16.19
HarperCollins Publishers Inc WWINGS LIKE EAGLES The Untold Story of the Battle
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£14.30
HarperCollins Anne Frank LP
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Popes Last Crusade How an American Jesuit
Book SynopsisDrawing on untapped resources, exclusive interviews, and new archival research, The Pope?s Last Crusade by Peter Eisner is a thrilling narrative that sheds new light on Pope Pius XI?s valiant effort to condemn Nazism and the policies of the Third Reich?a crusade that might have changed the course of World War II.A shocking tale of intrigue and suspense, illustrated with sixteen pages of archival photos, The Pope?s Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI''s Campaign to Stop Hitler illuminates this religious leader?s daring yet little-known campaign, a spiritual and political battle that would be derailed by Pius?s XIs death just a few months later. Peter Eisner reveals how Pius XI intended to unequivocally reject Nazism in one of the most unprecedented and progressive pronouncements ever issued by the Vatican, and how a group of conservative churchmen plotted to prevent it.For years, only parts of this story have been known. Eisner offers a new interpretation of this historic event and the powerful figures at its center in an essential work that provides thoughtful insight and raises controversial questions impacting our own time.
£14.39
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Ordinary Men
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