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Die Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft in Vorarlberg neu, ansprechend und zusammenfassend erzählt - speziell für junge Leserinnen und Leser, aber auch für interessierte Erwachsene. 43……続きを見る

Wie kam es zum größten Krieg der Menschheitsgeschichte? Wer plante den Völkermord an den Juden? Was geschah vor Stalingrad? Auf diese und 97 weitere interessante Fragen gibt dieses eBook fundiert, u……続きを見る

"Die Juden mögen wir nicht", schwadronierte Sigbert Ramsauer, ehemaliger SS-Arzt im KZ am Loiblpass, amnestierter Kriegsverbrecher und praktischer Arzt in Klagenfurt, Anfang der 1990er Jahre in eine……続きを見る

Keith Robbins provides an excellent introduction to Winston Churchill's dramatic rise to power and traces the unpredictable way his career moved between triumph and tragedy**.** Providing a vivid pi……続きを見る

The D-Day landings on June 6th 1944 were part of the largest military operation in history. An airborne assault in Northern France was followed by amphibious landings on five Normandy beaches: Utah,……続きを見る

Women at War captures the reality of women at war in their own words, examining the enormously important part that women played in the major wars of the twentieth century. From their involvement in ……続きを見る

50 Stories: 50 fictional and non-fictional short stories by Ted Courtright Ted Courtright has experienced some amazing things: witnessing the horrendous devastation in Hiroshima with his own eyes; a……続きを見る

The struggle for North Africa was unlike any other campaign of World War II. The desert proved a real test of generalship, pitting Germany's Erwin Rommel against Britain's Bernard Montgomery and Ame……続きを見る

Historians consider the Battle of Rzhev "one of the bloodiest in the history of the Great Patriotic War" and "Zhukov's greatest defeat". Veterans called this colossal battle, which continued for a t……続きを見る

Juli 1944. Stauffenberg zündet eine Bombe, um Hitler zu töten. In Berlin läuft der Putsch Walküre an. Wehrmachtkommandant Paul von Hase soll das Regierungsviertel abriegeln. Erstmals veröffentlicht……続きを見る

Waffen-SS Armour in Normandy presents the combat history of SS-Panzer Regiment 12 and SS-Panzerjäger Abteilung 12 in the Battle for France from June to the end of August 1944 based on transcriptions……続きを見る

Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Nonfiction Jean Guéhenno's Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1945 is the most oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France. A ……続きを見る

From acclaimed journalist Walter Shapiro, the true life story of how his great-uncleーa Jewish vaudeville impresario and exuberant con manーmanaged to cheat Hitler’s agents in the run-up to WWII. Al……続きを見る

By 1938 a second war in Europe seemed inevitable. It had only been twenty years since the war to end all wars, and the horrors of conflict were still fresh in the mind, but that didn’t stop all side……続きを見る

As the Western Allies advanced across France and Belgium to the German border and into Germany, they fought numerous regimental and division-size engagements. This book details seven actions by unit……続きを見る

Hundreds of movies and thousands of books have been written about the heroes of World War II. For dozens of years, however, few people knew about one of the greatest heroes of the warーa mild-manner……続きを見る

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The remarkable story of James Howard “Billy” Williams, whose uncanny rapport with the world’s largest land animals transformed him from a ……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la bataille de Stalingrad en moins d’une heure ! Le 23 août 1942, l’armée allemande convaincue de sa supériorité entre à Stalingrad, ne se doutant pas u……続きを見る

Incoherent, obsessive and violent, Hitler's ideas nonetheless found an audience of millions and led to one of the most horrific and devastating conflicts of the 20th century. Taking two of Hitler's ……続きを見る

La vita e la morte di Rudolf Hess si possono sintetizzare con un’unica parola: mistero. Era il “Vertreter” il delfino di Hitler, un uomo che poteva vantare una sintonia e un’affinità elettiva con il……続きを見る

From one of America’s best loved authors comes this collection of WWII novels. Contains four of Wharton’s novels: • Birdy • A Midnight Clear • Franky Furbo • Shrapnel 続きを見る

U 505 ist das einzige deutsche U-Boot, das im Zweiten Weltkrieg von amerikanischen Schiffen aufgebracht wurde, und es bildet heute das Wahrzeichen des Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Hans……続きを見る

Edward Connor was barely out of high school when he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps before the beginning of World War II. After Pearl Harbor was attacked, he and thousands of other young men were qui……続きを見る

A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Irene’s story will transport readers back to a more inno……続きを見る

A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Irene’s story will transport readers back to a more inno……続きを見る

A bestseller in 1946, Railroad of Death is the first and best account of forced labour on the Burma Railway. John Coast was a young officer in the Norfolk Regiment who was taken prisoner at the Fall……続きを見る

In any military operation throughout history, few 24-hour periods have been as crucial as that of 6th June 1944. With the aid of specially commissioned maps, D-Day: The First 24 Hours series gives t……続きを見る

In THE COLDITZ STORY, Pat Reid told the story of the escape academy that sprang up inside the most impregnable German POW camp of the Second World War, ending appropriately with his own incredible e……続きを見る

Campaigns of World War II: Fall of the Reich is a military history of the Western European campaign from D-Day in June 1944 to the fall of Berlin in May 1945. Beginning with the Allied preparations ……続きを見る

A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author of A Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. Althou……続きを見る