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Between 1939 and 1945 more than 17,000 Catholic German priests and seminarians were conscripted into Hitler’s Wehrmacht. Men who had devoted their lives to God found themselves advancing the cause o……続きを見る

Thoroughly revised to include 25 conflicts not covered in the previous edition, as well as expanded and updated information on previous coverage, this illustrated reference presents descriptions and……続きを見る

**Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History "Like Lauren Hillebrand's Unbroken…Target Tokyo brings to life an indelible era." ーBen Cosgrove, The Daily Beast** On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. ……続きを見る

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Theo Dirks was born in a Mennonite village in the Ukraine. During the Second World War, he and his family were exiled to Siberia, but through disastrous circumstances managed to escape and come back……続きを見る

Many people do not know that General George S. Patton Jr. suffered from schizophrenia.  In his work accalimed writer Jared William Carter sheds light on the mind of George S. Patton Jr.続きを見る

On a chilly Sunday, December 7, 1941, major league baseball’s owners gathered in Chicago for their annual winter meetings, just two months after one of baseball’s greatest seasons. For the owners, t……続きを見る

In the aftermath of the Battle of Britain, airmen filled a small town where pioneering plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe established revolutionary surgical and therapeutic treatments. For the child ……続きを見る

Co-winner of the 2014-2015 Charles P. Stacey Award Tim Cook, Canada’s leading war historian, ventures deep into World War Two in this epic two-volume story of heroism and horror, of loss and longing……続きを見る

The Struggle' is a very readable account of an interesting life. The author was born in a rather poor peasant family in Poland. Through his own effort he made his way into the elite, becoming an off……続きを見る

Under Himmler's Command addresses two areas of World War II hitherto neglected - Heinrich Himmler as a military commander, and the German staff officer corps during the last months of the war on the……続きを見る

The Guadalcanal-blooded 1st Marine Division’s assault on Cape Gloucester in western New Britain on December 26, 1943, was unconnected to the preceding seventeen-month slog along the nearby Solomon I……続きを見る

At the beginning of the Second World War the Nazi hierarchy at an early stage, had fully recognized the importance of controlling the depiction of military conflict in order to ensure the continued ……続きを見る

Dutch SS accounts are very rare, particularly ones such as this, covering recruitment, training, and front-line service first with 5th SS Panzer Division 'Wiking', then later with SS Regiment Bessle……続きを見る

Whilst many books have been written on the history of the Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces in WWII, none of them have concentrated solely on the story of the 1st Parachute Brigade in North Afr……続きを見る

Celem przyświecajacym wydaniu książki „Zielonka. Zapomniane lotnisko września 1939” jest przybliżenie i upamiętnienie wydarzeń związanych z działaniami polskiego lotnictwa wojskowego z lotniska polo……続きを見る

Józef Taler urodził się w 1923 roku w Rozwadowie (dziś dzielnicy Stalowej Woli), w rodzinie miejscowego adwokata. W miasteczku, które zamieszkiwała po połowie ludność chrześcijańska i żydowska, skoń……続きを見る

This book describes one of the most terrible tragedies of the Second World War and the events preceding it. The horrible miscalculations made by the Stavka of the Soviet Supreme High Command and the……続きを見る

World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. ……続きを見る

From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls and GI Brides, this is Jessie’s story, one of three true accounts from the book The Girls Who Went to War. “Since Jessie’s surname was Ward, she was o……続きを見る

From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls and GI Brides, this is Kathleen’s story, one of three true accounts from the book The Girls Who Went to War. “Boxing Day was cold and frosty, and by t……続きを見る

The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940. In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while th……続きを見る

Alfred Andersch ist Westdeutschlands berühmtester Deserteur. Sein autobiografischer Bericht "Die Kirschen der Freiheit" (1952) beschreibt die Umstände seiner Fahnenflucht aus Hitlers Wehrmacht am 6.……続きを見る

**Winner of the 2016 Ottawa Book Award The magisterial second volume of Tim Cook's definitive account of Canadians fighting in the Second World War.** Historian Tim Cook displays his trademark story……続きを見る

The first major study to draw upon unknown or neglected sources, as well as original interviews with figures like Billy Graham, Awakening the Evangelical Mind uniquely tells the engaging story of ho……続きを見る

The twenty-seven stories in this book serve as a graphic reminder of the selfless heroism of America's World War II Army Air Forces flyers and how necessary they were to achieve Allied victory. Wolf……続きを見る

From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls and GI Brides, this is Margery’s story, one of three true accounts from the book The Girls Who Went to War. “‘Who does that man think he is?’ Margery ……続きを見る

‘Good luck to all the lads.’ Brian Cox wrote those words in his diary on 26 August 1940, just before he and his mates from 9 Platoon of 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion experienced enemy action for the fi……続きを見る

What was the origin of the word ‘Nazi’? Who were the key figures involved in the Second World War, and what terrible weapons did they unleash? All these questions and more are answered in this fasci……続きを見る

Winner: Master Corporal Jan Stanislaw Jakobzcak Memorial Book Award Without what the Allies learned in the Mediterranean air war in 1942–1944, the Normandy landingsーand so, perhaps, the Second Worl……続きを見る