World War II 92

Im März 1938 wird der Innsbrucker Erwin Gostner als politischer Gegner des Nazi-Regimes von SA-Angehörigen verhaftet. Bis 1941 ist er in den Konzentrationslagern Dachau, Mauthausen und Gusen interni……続きを見る

On the hellish battlefields of World War II Europe, Major Dick Winters led his Easy Companyーthe now-legendary Band of Brothersーfrom the confusion and chaos of the D-Day invasion to the final captu……続きを見る

In Patton at the Battle of the Bulge, Army veteran and historian Leo Barron explores one of the most famous yet little-told clashes of WWII, a vitally important chapter in one of history’s most lege……続きを見る

From the acclaimed author of Hit the Target and Big Week, an in-depth account of the legendary World War II combat group, the Flying Tigers. In 1940, Pearl Harbor had not yet happened, and America w……続きを見る

“[A] reminder of just how horrible nuclear weapons are.”ーThe Wall Street Journal **“A devastating read that highlights man’s capacity to wreak destruction, but in which one also catches a glimpse o……続きを見る

**International bestseller! James Bond has nothing on Dusko Popov. a double agent for the Abwehr, MI5 and MI6, and the FBI during World War II, Popov seduced numerous women, spoke five languages, an……続きを見る

The Battle of Iwo Jima, a major event in the Pacific Theater of World War IIーand one of the bloodiest in United States historyーbegan on February 19, 1945. But what happened two days earlier has la……続きを見る

In the tradition of Shadow Divers, this is the gripping true account of the search for German U-boat U-550, the last unfound, diveable wreck of a U-boat off the United States coast, and the battle i……続きを見る

**“Tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries...laced with Winters’s soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades’ bravery.”……続きを見る

From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. Countless books have been writte……続きを見る

A New York Times Notable Book of 2012 Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of World War II. In this richly detailed and engaging history, Lizzie Collingham establish……続きを見る

What if you found out that your grandfather had been a Nazi SS officer? This is the confession that Martin Davidson received from his mother upon the death of demanding, magnetic grandfather Bruno L……続きを見る

Ian Kershaw’s biography of Adolf Hitler is widely regarded as the definitive work on the subject, as well as one of the most brilliant biographies of our time. In Making Friends with Hitler, the gre……続きを見る

**An absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history, by the author of The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power, and Hitler's People “T……続きを見る

Immediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to restore the honor of the United States with a dramatic act of vengeance: a retaliatory bombing raid on Tok……続きを見る

**The definitive account of Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany, from the author of The Third Reich in Power, The Third Reich at War, and Hitler's People "The cle……続きを見る

An eye-opening account of the rise of science in Germany through to Hitler’s regime, and the frightening Nazi experiments that occurred during the Reich A shocking account of Nazi science, and a com……続きを見る

A Penguin Classic “Age can never dull this kind of writing,” writes the Chicago Tribune of John Steinbeck’s dispatches from World War II, filed for the New York Herald Tribune in 1943, which vividly……続きを見る

**"A rich and intriguing story whcih the authors disentangle with great skill."--Sunday Telegraph From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem** In th……続きを見る

The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII. His name wasn’t Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort D……続きを見る

"A tale drenched in drama and blood, heroism and cowardice, loyalty and betrayal."ーJonathan Yardley, The Washington Post The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the……続きを見る

"Overy's book is easily the best account of Europe's descent into...death and destruction." --Evening Standard (London) A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak of history……続きを見る

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over Nazi-occupied France and evaded Ges……続きを見る

**“Engrossing…the first formal biography of a woman who has heretofore been relegated to the sidelines.”–The New York Times From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Woman of No Importance,……続きを見る

A harrowing account of an epic, yet nearly forgotten, battle of World War IIーGeneral Douglas MacArthur's four-year assault on the Pacific War's most hostile battleground: the mountainous, jungle-cl……続きを見る

**The compelling biography of the violinist who founded the Palestine Symphony Orchestra and saved hundreds of people from Hitlerーas seen in Josh Aronson’s documentary Orchestra of Exiles. “The tru……続きを見る

Thunder in the East, originally published in 2005, is widely regarded as the best short history of the entire Nazi-Soviet military conflict. It tells the story from the pre-war expectations of Hitle……続きを見る

Dabbs writes the stories of the service generation during WWII. Many of the men in this book were in columns he wrote for the Dade County Sentinel in Trenton, Georgia. 続きを見る

As a participant in many of the events he writes about in Experiment in Occupation, Arthur Kahn offers a richly detailed account of the process by which the fight against Nazism came to be transform……続きを見る

Patton is a concise and penetrating biography of one of history's greatest yet most controversial commanders and draws the life of an atavistic warrior-leader who defined modern warfare in the twent……続きを見る