CK - World War II 3

Er ging freiwillig, und er konnte fliehen: Witold Pilecki begab sich absichtlich als Häftling ins KZ Auschwitz. Sein Ziel: Informationen über die Vorgänge im Konzentrationslager nach draußen zu schm……続きを見る

Soon after we landed it became apparent that there was more than enough artillery here, that the enemy were excellent shots, and that their ammo supply seemed to be endless. With the Japanese deeply……続きを見る

Un polar ? Non, un livre d'histoire. Ou quand la réalité se fait plus noire que la fiction. 'A l'Institut dentaire du square de l'avenue de Choisy [...], on allait, durant un mois ou deux, jouer les……続きを見る

Un des secrets les mieux gardés du Parti communiste français. Le PCF entretenait pendant l'Occupation une police politique – le détachement Valmy – chargée de l'assassinat des " renégats " et du châ……続きを見る

August von Kageneck, fils d'un aide de camp de Guillaume Il, neveu de von Papen, a revêtu l'uniforme en 1939 - il n'avait pas dix-sept ans - et ne l'a quitté qu'en 1955. Son récit sincère et lucide ……続きを見る

In the summer of 1940, the fate of Britain hung in the balance. In an attempt to invade, Germany was to suffer its first defeat in a desperate struggle that took place in the sky over southern Engla……続きを見る

Feb 22, 1944-July 21, 1944; (from Acknowledgements) “The Silent Heroes is the culmination of over 10 years research. Needless to say, it would not have been possible without the support of many offi……続きを見る

Der Spiegel nennt Henry Pickers Aufzeichnungen von Hitlers Tischgesprächen im Führerhauptquartier »Wolfsschanze« eine »publizistische Weltsensation«. Bis heute gelten sie als einzigartiges zeitgesch……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

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

The Final Flight of Maggie's Drawers is the true story of Joe Maloney, a B-24 tail gunner during WWII. HIs story unfolds as he describes, in detail, life in the military, from living in a tent city ……続きを見る

The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken disorder. It involves many of the most vital preoccupati……続きを見る

2016 Speaker's Book Award ー Shortlisted 2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award ー Nominated An account of the women working in high-security, dangerous conditions making bombs in Toronto during the Secon……続きを見る

Stolen Words is an epic story about the largest collection of Jewish books in the worldーtens of millions of books that the Nazis looted from European Jewish families and institutions. Nazi soldiers……続きを見る

Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The Holocaust This is the story of No. 22483, who had been shipped from Belgium to Buchenwald. This is an account of what No. 22483 saw and felt duri……続きを見る

Tijdens de aanval op de stranden van Normandië nam Dick Winters het commando van Easy Company over, het 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Hij leidde hen langs de grote veldslagen van de oorlog en d……続きを見る

Follows a legendary unit of American fighting men from D-Day through the end of World War II. 続きを見る

The Battle of the Bulge lives in history as the U.S. Army's largest and bloodiest battle of World War II. This innovative study of American military leadership in action during the battle examines t……続きを見る

How the exploits of panzer troops were reported on the German home front. 続きを見る

Visual history of the artillery used by both sides on the Eastern Front in World War II. 続きを見る

America’s most elite commando unit, the US Navy SEAL Team Six pulled off one of the most remarkable covert operations in military history when they infiltrated the secret hideout of Osama Bin Laden ……続きを見る

The charming, return-to-the-land memoir of a refugee family who flees Nazi Germany and finds their true home in the backwoods of rural Vermont Alice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar-……続きを見る

Based on an exploration of both pre-Nazi and Nazi theory and practice, Pete Kakel challenges the dominant narrative of the murder of European Jewry, illuminating the Holocaust's decidedly imperial-c……続きを見る

Part of a new Holocaust remembrance series of important testimonies and memoirs from the unique collections of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre. Anna Podgajecki was born in Korzec,……続きを見る

Une des plus audacieuses opérations commando de la Seconde Guerre mondiale Peut-on être à la fois un héros des Services spéciaux de Sa Majesté et l’un des plus grands écrivains du XXe siècle ? Patri……続きを見る

John Beckett was a rising political star. Elected as Labour's youngest M.P. in 1924, he was constantly in the news and tipped for greatness. But ten years later he was propaganda chief for Mosley’s ……続きを見る

Canadians and War Volume 1 brings together four diverse works of research from four Canadian scholars. Canada's military history is a living, breathing thing, with endless perspectives and accounts ……続きを見る

What, exactly, does one mean when idealizing tolerance as a solution to cultural conflict? This book examines a wide range of young adult texts, both fiction and memoir, representing the experiences……続きを見る

In April 1945, the American 71st Infantry Division exacted the final vestiges of life from the Reich’s 6th SS Mountain Division in central Germany. This analysis of the battle demonstrates that the ……続きを見る

In 1942 German U-boats turned the shipping lanes off Cape Hatteras into a sea of death. Cruising up and down the U.S. eastern seaboard, they sank 259 ships, littering the waters with cargo and bodie……続きを見る