World War II 92

Le memorie di Luigi Del Bono, sono interessanti, oltre che per le vicende storiche riportate, per l’elevato valore letterario, che le distingue dalla massa delle memorie di guerra, come riconobbe an……続きを見る

(From the Synopsis) The letters passing back and forth between thees two "Bills" trace their day-by-day wartime adventures (and occasional misadventures) 続きを見る

This is the first book (in either English or French) to offer readers an overview of women's experience of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath in France. It examines objectively the par……続きを見る

Ucronia e Seconda Guerra Mondiale, un argomento certamente già "arato" sia dalla letteratura che dal cinema. E tuttavia la WWII per la sua complessità e per la ricchezza delle informazioni disponibi……続きを見る

" Je raconte ici l'histoire vraie de Haïm Lipsky, qui a traversé le siècle et survécu à Auschwitz grâce à son violon. Résonance d'un parcours inouï, du Yiddishland à la Terre promise, ce récit témoi……続きを見る

The daring low level mission to the oil refineries of Ploesti has long been considered as one of the most significant missions of World War Il. The allies were determined to annihilate the very sour……続きを見る

Franz Freisleder war zu Kriegsbeginn acht Jahre alt. Alt genug, um zu begreifen, dass der Krieg mehr als den Wegfall des Oktoberfestes bedeutete. Aber zu jung, um später Rechenschaft über Schuld und……続きを見る

Non ci si appassionerebbe tanto all'approfondimento di uno dei periodi più bui e nefasti della storia moderna, se non fossimo così tangibilmente in presenza di un interesse caparbio vo……続きを見る

Working Memory: Women and Work in World War II speaks to the work women did during the war: the labour of survival, resistance, and collaboration, and the labour of recording, representing, and memo……続きを見る

When Alan Higgins joined the Royal Navy at the outbreak of World War II, he was not yet sixteen years old. But his youth could not save him from the horrors of war and he was soon serving aboard the……続きを見る

Une enquête passionnante sur la fascination des nazis pour l'occulte... Pour comprendre les racines du mal, il faut parfois oser jeter un œil dans la coulisse. Tout ou presque a été dit sur le sinis……続きを見る

Seine Liebesaffäre mit der Medizin begann im Alter von drei Jahren, als der in Wien geborene Peter Berczeller seinen Vater bei Hausbesuchen auf dem Land begleiten durfte. Der Arzt-Beruf des Vaters s……続きを見る

The tug, Menominee, and its tow of three barges left Norfolk/Hampton Roads, Virginia to deliver lumber and coal to Connecticut on March 31, 1941. It crossed the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and heade……続きを見る

Between 1939 and 1945 India changed to an extraordinary extent. Millions of Indians suddenly found themselves as soldiers, fighting in Europe and North Africa but also - something simply never imagi……続きを見る

_____________ A charming account of the life of Dorice Greenfield; dancer, wife, mother and now, author. At fifteen, Dorice runs away from her evacuated school campus, and the relative safety of the……続きを見る

Il Generale Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (1891-1963), durante la seconda guerra mondiale, comandò unità corazzate nella Campagna di Francia e in Russia, partecipando nell’inverno 1942-1943 al dr……続きを見る

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