Second World War Books
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Hitler and the Secret Alliance Hitler Escape
£19.44
Simon & Schuster Band of Brothers
Book SynopsisStephen E. Ambrose’s classic New York Times bestseller and inspiration for the acclaimed HBO series about Easy Company, the ordinary men who became the World War II’s most extraordinary soldiers at the frontlines of the war''s most critical moments. Featuring a foreword from Tom Hanks.They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy. And at its peak—in Holland and the Ardennes—Easy Company was as good a rifle company as any in the world.From the rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the disbanding in 1945, Stephen E. Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company. In combat, the reward for a job well done is the next tough assignment, and as they advanced through Europe, the men of Easy kept getting the tough assignments.They parachuted into France early D-Day morning and knocked out a battery of four 105 mm cannon looki
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Open Road Media The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of
Book SynopsisThe true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Day of Infamy. In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler’s blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming Nazi strength, the 338,000 men gathered on the beach were all that stood between Hitler and Western Europe. Crush them, and the path to Paris and London was clear. Unable to retreat any farther, the Allied soldiers set up defense positions and prayed for deliverance. Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered an evacuation on May 26, expecting to save no more than a handful of his men. But Britain would not let its soldiers down. Hundreds of fishing boats, pleasure yachts, and commercial vessels streamed into the Channel to back up the Royal Navy, and in a week nearly the entire army was ferried safely back to England. Based on interviews with hundreds of survivors and told by “a master narrator,” The Miracle of Dunkirk is a striking history of a week when the outcome of World War II hung in the balance (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.). Trade Review"Stirring . . . The difference between the Lord technique and that of any number of academic historians is the originality of his reportage. . . . Contemporary history at its most readable." --The New York Times "Lively and interesting . . . Rewarding . . . A good tale, skillfully told . . . [Miracle of Dunkirk] is the most complete and readable account yet to appear." --Christian Science Monitor "Amazing and unexpected heroism . . . well worth reading." --Milwaukee Sentinel "A master narrator." --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
£14.20
Open Road Media Miracle at Midway
Book SynopsisNew York Times bestseller: The true story of the WWII naval battle portrayed in the Roland Emmerich film is “something special among war histories” (Chicago Sun-Times). Six months after Pearl Harbor, the seemingly invincible Imperial Japanese Navy prepared a decisive blow against the United States. After sweeping through Asia and the South Pacific, Japan’s military targeted the tiny atoll of Midway, an ideal launching pad for the invasion of Hawaii and beyond. But the US Navy would be waiting for them. Thanks to cutting-edge code-breaking technology, tactical daring, and a significant stroke of luck, the Americans under Adm. Chester W. Nimitz dealt Japan’s navy its first major defeat in the war. Three years of hard fighting remained, but it was at Midway that the tide turned. This “stirring, even suspenseful narrative” is the first book to tell the story of the epic battle from both the American and Japanese sides (Newsday). Miracle at Midway reveals how America won its first and greatest victory of the Pacific war—and how easily it could have been a loss.Trade Review“A gripping and convincing account.” —Philadelphia Inquirer “Few better accounts of Midway have been, or are likely to be, written.” —The Houston Post “The most detailed and comprehensive account of Midway.” —James D. Hornfischer, bestselling author of The Fleet at Flood Tide “Epic.” —The New York Times “Something special among war histories . . . No other gives both sides of the battle in as detailed and telling a manner.” —Chicago Sun-Times
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Open Road Media The Hotel Tacloban: The Explosive True Story of One American's Journey to Hell in a Japanese POW Camp
Book SynopsisA “very dramatic [and] compelling” World War II story of murder, mutiny, and a military cover-up, from the author of The Phoenix Program (The New York Times). Captured by the Japanese while on patrol in the fetid jungles of New Guinea, Douglas Valentine’s father, who’d enlisted in the US Army at age sixteen, was sent to a prison camp in the Philippines, where he was interned with Australian and British soldiers. The events that followed make up this “well-told, chilling” story of betrayal and brutality—a powerful tale of a son uncovering the traumatic events that shaped the rest of his father’s life (Los Angeles Times Book Review). “Not just a searing picture of life in a terrible POW camp, it is also a significant historical document about a place that the U.S. military says never existed.” —Publishers Weekly
£16.95
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Postwar Occupation of Japan: The History of the Transition from World War II to Modern Japan
£10.66
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Voices of the Waffen SS
£20.00
Independently Published Kurt Knispel, El Caballero Sin Cruz
£13.94
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Sinking of the Bismarck: The History of the Battle that Destroyed Nazi Germany's Most Famous Battleship
£10.66
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Odessa: The Controversial History of the Mysterious Network that Helped Nazis Escape Germany after World War II
£10.66
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform World War II Cryptography: The History of the Efforts to Crack the Secret Codes Used by the Axis and Allies
£10.66
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Battle of Crete: The History of Nazi Germany's Airborne Invasion of Greece during World War II
£10.66
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Big War Box Set
£15.81
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Operation Paperclip: The History of the Secret Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to America During and After World War II
£10.66
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform U-Boat! (Vol.VIII)
£19.39
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Marshal Josip Broz Tito: The Life and Legacy of Yugoslavia's First President
£10.66
Grand Central Publishing Dragonfly
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Grand Central Publishing The Midwife of Auschwitz
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History PR Denville in World War II
£22.49
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform U-Boat War in Photos
£19.73
Basic Books Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
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Basic Books Scorched Earth
£28.00
PublicAffairs How to Win an Information War
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£24.00
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Odessa: The Controversial History of the Mysterious Network that Helped Nazis Escape Germany after World War II
£10.66
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Operation Paperclip: The History of the Secret Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to America During and After World War II
£10.66
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Maginot Line: The History of the Fortifications that Failed to Protect France from Nazi Germany During World War II
£10.66
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Postwar Occupation of Japan: The History of the Transition from World War II to Modern Japan
£10.66
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform U-Boat! Vol. 10
£18.68
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 163256: A Memoir of Resistance
Book Synopsis163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman's astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his incarceration in numerous death and labour camps, to his eventual liberation by Allied soldiers in 1945 and his emigration to Canada. Surviving by his wits, Englishman escaped death time and again, committing daring acts of bravery to do what he thought was right - helping other prisoners escape and actively participating in the underground resistance. A man who refused to surrender his spirit despite the loss of his wife and his entire family to the Nazis, Englishman kept a promise he had made to a friend, and sought his friend's children after the war. With the children's mother, he made a new life in Canada, where he continued his resistance, tracking neo-Nazi cells and infiltrating their headquarters to destroy their files. Until his death in August 2007, Englishman remained active, speaking out against racism and hatred in seminars for young people. His gripping story should be widely read and will be of interest to scholars of auto/biography, World War II history, and the Holocaust. Trade Review``In an appendix to this fine memoir, Michael Englishman (Engelschman) lists the members of his immediate family who were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.... He survived in part because he was an electrician: his technical skills made him valuable.... He also developed...a keen sense of self-preservation [which] he used for his own benefit, but also to save the lives of others--he was able to get a number of his fellow prisoners transferred to safer work details.... Englishman emigrated to Canada after the war, and continued his fight against fascism by doing educational work and by taking on neo-Nazi groups. With this powerful memoir, his work continues.'' -- Canadian Military History, Book Review Supplement, Autumn 2009, 201004Table of Contents 163256: A Memoir of Resistance by Micheal Englishman Preface Introduction: Words at the Ready 1. Growing Up Jewish in Amsterdam 2. Deportation 3. From the Burght to Vught—and Auschwitz 4. The Coal Mines of Janina and the Buna Works 5. The Death March to Dora-Nordhausen and Building the ""Secret Weapon"" 6. Liberation 7. Finding the Children 8. Picking Up the Pieces 9. Canada, Here We Come 10. Déjà Vu 11. Fighting Back by Telling the Truth 12. Family Reunion 13. March of the Living—April 2004 Afterword Appendices I. Family Relationships II. List of Prison and Concentration Camps
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Phyllis Bruce Books Perennial Unlikely Soldiers
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Heritage Books Ready to Haul, Ready to Fight. U.S. Navy, Royal Australian Navy, and British Merchant Navy Cargo Ships in the Pacific in World War II
£26.60
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the
Book SynopsisFirst comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction deals with questions of German victimhood. In recent years it has become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of "ethnic" Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has accompanied this trend. Sebald's The Air War and Literature and Grass's Crabwalk are key texts, but there are many others; the great majority seek not to revise German responsibility for the Holocaust but to balance German victimhood and German perpetration. This book of essays is the first in English to examine closely the variety ofthese texts. An opening section on the 1950s -- a decade of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the focus shifted to German perpetration -- provides context, drawing parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written since the mid-1990s shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on perpetration and victimhood, on "ordinary Germans," and on the balance between historical empathy and condemnation. Contributors: Karina Berger, Elizabeth Boa, Stephen Brockmann, David Clarke, Mary Cosgrove, Rick Crownshaw, Helen Finch, Frank Finlay, Katharina Hall, Colette Lawson, Caroline Schaumann, Helmut Schmitz, Kathrin Schödel, and Stuart Taberner. Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the University of Leeds. Karina Berger holds a PhD in German from the University of Leeds.Trade Review[A]n impressive testament to collaborative research. The . . . essays . . . all offer highly stimulating discussions of individual texts and topics, and can be read as self-contained pieces, but the book is far more than the sum of its parts: the coherence of its argument suggests not only masterly editing, but also the real benefits of scholars with related interests working together over an extended period. [This book] will be of interest to students, specialists, and general readers alike, and given the implications of the topic, deserves the widest possible audience. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *Contributes to a growing body of research on the evolution of memory politics in post-unification Germany... Adds important inflections to current debates... Important, thought-provoking, and fittingly nuanced. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *The individual essays make a compelling and well-conceived contribution to an important and on-going discussion that in the ten years of its existence has gained in nuance and sophistication. * MONATSHEFTE *Provides a valuable overview about the range and complexity of literary accounts on 'German suffering. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *Provocative yet accessible to a wide audience. * CHOICE *The volume adds support to the argument that the notion of 'German victims' did not begin with the fall of the Berlin Wall. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *Clearly structured, with a common theme that gives the work cohesion.... Will certainly stimulate academic debate and scholarship for years to come. * H-NET GERMAN *Has an impressive array of contributions. . . . [C]ertainly demonstrates the complexities of the current debates. * THIS YEAR'S WORK IN MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Stuart Taberner and Karina Berger W. G. Sebald and German Wartime Suffering - Stephen Brockmann The Natural History of Destruction: W. G. Sebald, Gert Ledig, and the Allied Bombings - Colette Lawson Expulsion Novels of the 1950s: More than Meets the Eye? - Karina Berger "In this prison of the guard room": Heinrich Böll's Briefe aus dem Krieg 1939-1945 in the Context of Contemporary Debates - Frank Finlay Family, Heritage, and German Wartime Suffering in Hanns-Josef Ortheil, Stephan Wackwitz, Thomas Medicus, Dagmar Leupold, and Uwe Timm - Helmut Schmitz Lost Heimat in Generational Novels by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein, and Angelika Overath - Elizabeth Boa "A Different Family Story": German Wartime Suffering in Women's Writing by Wibke Bruhns, Ute Scheub, and Christina von Braun - Caroline Schaumann The Place of German Wartime Suffering in Hans-Ulrich Treichel's Family Texts - David Clarke "Why only now?": The Representation of German Wartime Suffering as a "Memory Taboo" in Günter Grass's Novella Im Krebsgang - Katharina Hall Rereading Der Vorleser, Remembering the Perpetrator - Rick Crownshaw Narrating German Suffering in the Shadow of Holocaust Victimology: W. G. Sebald, Contemporary Trauma Theory, and Dieter Forte's Air Raids Epic - Mary Cosgrove Günter Grass's Account of German Wartime Suffering in Beim Häuten der Zwiebel: Mind in Mourning or Boy Adventurer? - Helen Finch Jackboots and Jeans: The Private and the Political in Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders - Frank Finlay Memory-Work in Recent German Novels: What (if Any) Limits Remain on Empathy with the "German Experience" of the Second World War? - Stuart Taberner "Secondary Suffering" and Victimhood: The "Other" of German Identity in Bernhard Schlink's "Die Beschneidung" and Maxim Biller's "Harlem Holocaust" - Kathrin Schodel
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Burford Books,U.S. Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of
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AuthorHouse A Teen's War: Training, Combat, Capture
£14.05
PublicAffairs,U.S. Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II
Book SynopsisIn the second half of the 1990s, Stuart Eizenstat was perhaps the most controversial U.S. foreign policy official in Europe. His mission had nothing to do with Russia, the Middle East, Yugoslavia, or any of the other hotspots of the day. Rather, Eizenstat's mission was to provide justice,albeit belated and imperfect justice,for the victims of World War II. Imperfect Justice is Eizenstat's account of how the Holocaust became a political and diplomatic battleground fifty years after the war's end, as the issues of dormant bank accounts, slave labour, confiscated property, looted art, and unpaid insurance policies convulsed Europe and America. He recounts the often heated negotiations with the Swiss, the Germans, the French, the Austrians, and various Jewish organizations, showing how these moral issues, shunted aside for so long, exposed wounds that had never healed and conflicts that had never been properly resolved. Though we will all continue to reckon with the crimes of World War II for a long time to come, Eizenstat's account shows that it is still possible to take positive steps in the service of justice.
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Inkling Books Dachau Liberated: The Official Report
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Sentient Publications Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi
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BearManor Media The Pin-Up Girls of World War II
£24.70
BearManor Media The Hollywood Canteen: Where the Greatest Generation Danced with the Most Beautiful Girls in the World (Hardback)
£31.42
ibooks A Soldier's Journal: With the 22nd Infantry Regiment in World War II
Book SynopsisA memoir of the 22nd Infantry Regiment - a unit that Ernest Hemingway stayed with for five months. It describes the unit's historic WWII drive across France and the bloody Battle of the Hurtgen Forest, and relates a moving account of men who enlisted to fight in a just cause.
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J.T. Colby & Company, Inc. World War II ChroniclesEurope In Flames
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Little, Brown & Company The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Mártir, Profeta, Espía
Book SynopsisBonhoeffer escrito por Eric Metaxas, narra la biografía de Dietrich Bonhoeffer, un hombre atrapado en un dilema desgarrador: oponerse a los nazis y a Hitler mismo, para lo cual necesita mentir y ser cómplice de un asesinato, o permanecer callado y permitir la exterminación de miles. Los creyentes que busquen inspiración para vivir una vida de fe valiente la recibirán en abundancia dentro de estas páginas. Los lectores fascinados con esa época de la historia descubrirán vislumbres reveladores detrás de los escenarios del movimiento anti-Hitler. Para los historiadores será una sólida obra académica. Si hubo algún héroe a su pesar, ese fue Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Eric Metaxas ha escrito una biografía espléndida bajo el aspecto de la apasionante historia de un hombre que se tomó a Dios en serio. Acerca del libro: Comprensión de la teología de Bonhoeffer. La lucha humana de un verdadero héroe cristiano. Exploración a las influencias familiares, culturales y religiosas que formaron a un extraordinario teólogo. Una revisión exhaustiva de una de las épocas más oscuras de la historia. Una meticulosa investigación de circunstancias y personalidades que condujeron a Alemania desde la derrota de la Primera Guerra Mundial hasta las atrocidades de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. BonhoefferBonhoeffer written by Eric Metaxas, tells the biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man caught in a heartbreaking dilemma: oppose the Nazis and Hitler himself, for which he needs to lie and be an accessory to murder, or remain silent and allow the extermination of thousands . Believers seeking inspiration to live a courageous life of faith will receive it in abundance within these pages. Readers fascinated by that time in history will discover revealing behind-the-scenes glimpses of the anti-Hitler movement. For historians it will be a solid scholarly work. If there was any hero in the middle of distress, it was Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Eric Metaxas has written a splendid biography of the gripping story of a man who took God seriously. About the book: Understanding of Bonhoeffer's Theology. The human struggle of a true Christian hero. Exploration of the family, cultural and religious influences that raised an extraordinary theologian. A comprehensive review of one of the darkest eras in history. A meticulous investigation of circumstances and personalities that led Germany from the defeat of World War I to the atrocities of World War II.
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Fideli Publishing Inc. WASPs of WWII
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