A thrilling true story of courage, resistance and ultimately betrayal in the Third Reich captured by internationally bestselling author and prize-winning journalist Jonathan Freedland....Loe edasi...
The incredible story of how one of Adolf Hitlers top secret V2 rockets was stolen by the Poles and smuggled to Britain in one of the most extraordinary operations of the Second World War. And more extraordinary still, it is a story that is utterly n...Loe edasi...
This visual history sheds light on forgotten parts of World War II history through the lens of the US Marine Corps, serving everywhere outside of the Pacific.When we think of US Marine involvement in World War II, we invariably thin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837051731)
The unbelievable true story of a boy who went to sea at 13, became a war hero in both world wars, and survived four shipwrecks, including Titanic...Loe edasi...
This highly illustrated book, published in paperback, tells the heroic story of those five months using artefacts, interviews, documents, film, art and photographs from the archive at IWM. Personal testimony from those who were there helps bring to...Loe edasi...
From the hellish skies over Europe to the unforgiving terrain of the Himalayas, this is the first complete history of the C-47 aircrews who helped turn the tide of war....Loe edasi...
This is a book that crosses the globe from Britain to Germany and from India to Indonesia...it is ambitious, deeply thought-provoking and, as with all the very best history, compellingly told -JAMES HOLLAND...Loe edasi...
From the international bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky, a sweeping oral history of the atomic bombs creation and deployment...Loe edasi...
Discover for the first time the story of the Organisation Todt, a hidden and brutal organisation overseen by Hitler at the heart of the Nazi machine....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Boydell Press, ISBN-13: 9781916931213)
A revealing documentary account of how Britain struggled to shape a modern navy amid Cold War pressures, rapid technological change and relentless financial constraint....Loe edasi...
Do you realize that by the time you wake up in the morning, twenty thousand men may have been killed? —Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 5 June 1944 From the worlds greatest collection of Winston Churchills...Loe edasi...
What makes a man of God go to war, put themselves in extreme danger, giving care to wounded and dying? This is the story of Chaplains in World War 2....Loe edasi...
From “the land that God forgot” to “Hell with the fire out,” the men of First Battalion, 24th Marines saw the worst of the Pacific war. They endured four major Pacific campaigns in thirteen months—from their baptism of fire at Namur, through the bloo...Loe edasi...
A ground-level history of the Holocaust, told through the voices of twenty European Jews. Drawing from diaries and memoirs, it reveals a multiplicity of experiences across countries, classes, and religious backgrounds. Each chapter traces a single y...Loe edasi...
Captured during the fall of Singapore in 1942, Percy Herbert survived Japanese captivity and the including the Alexandra Hospital massacre. Discovered after the war by Dame Sybil Thorndike, he went on to appear in over ninety films. A remarkable mem...Loe edasi...
Captured during the fall of Singapore in 1942, Percy Herbert survived Japanese captivity and the Alexandra Hospital massacre. Discovered after the war by Dame Sybil Thorndike, he went on to appear in over ninety films. A remarkable memoir of surviva...Loe edasi...
The RAAF effort during the Pacific War was massive, with glamorous types such as Spitfires, P-40s, Beaufighters and Hudsons grabbing most of the attention. While the ungainly Catalina flying boat played an equally important frontline role in the conf...Loe edasi...
By drawing on the official wartime US Navy Combat Narrative, this book examines the mighty Coral Sea battle and explains the weapons, technology and tactics involved. Aimed at the non-expert reader, the book sets forth how one of the most important b...Loe edasi...
An original member of the 506th PIRs demolition section, Jack Agnew fought in Normandy and the Netherlands, and was a Pathfinder for supply drops in Bastogne. Based on Agnews own recollections, this book reveals the reality of the notorious unit tha...Loe edasi...
This book discusses a number of operations undertaken by the XXXXVIII Panzer Corps in the direction of the Black Sea in 1941 and 42. A detailed analysis of raids and advances taken by panzer units on the Eastern Front in 1941–42.This book dis...Loe edasi...
This Palgrave Handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the history and memory of the Holocaust in Australia. Divided into four parts, the handbook covers key historical connections between Australia and the events of the Holocaust, includ...Loe edasi...
It was soldiers from the German 716th Division who stood in the front line facing many of the Allied units that went ashore on 6 June 1944, D-Day, particularly the Anglo-Canadian assaults at Juno Beach and Sword Beach, as well as fighting against th...Loe edasi...
This collection of vivid essays examines some of the most fascinating aspects of the German resistance to Hitler. It includes the first translations into English of pioneering studies on the role of a leading Nazi in the July Plot, the flight of Rudo...Loe edasi...
The two most notorious massacres of British troops by the SS, at Le Paradis and at Wormhout, in northern France, took place within a day and forty kilometers of each other in May 1940.At Wormhout the main victims of the carnage were members of the 2n...Loe edasi...
Hitlers Ardennes Offensive, his last great throw of the dice, was stagnating. After the initial German successes, the Allies had rallied. In a desperate bid to recover the momentum, the Luftwaffe aimed to gain control of the air by launching a major...Loe edasi...
In April 1944 with the D-Day invasion looming, a convoy of American landing craft sailed along Englands south coast. In the dead of night, German E-boats struck and within minutes, ships were sunk, hundreds of US servicemen were dead, and the Allies...Loe edasi...
The Royal Norfolk Regiment had a fighting record second to none. Five members of the Regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross, the greatest number to any Line Infantry Regiment during the Second World War. 1st Battalion landed on Sword Be...Loe edasi...
As oral history gains long-overdue recognition, its power to illuminate the past has never been more vital. From buried time capsules to the preserved voices, letters, diaries, photographs and films of those who lived through history’s most pivotal m...Loe edasi...
This book examines the intellectual trajectories of international mid-career scholars working on the Second World War and the Holocaust in France across a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, and cultural studies. It scrutinises...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: not a cult LLC, ISBN-13: 9781945649738)
A revelatory new history from one of Europes leading scholars, uncovering how Stalins systematic plunder of Germany after World War II fueled the Soviet Unions rise to superpower status. When the Red Army advanced into Central Europe in 194445, its...Loe edasi...
From genocidal campaigns to careful neutrality to valiant lifesaving efforts, every countrys experience of the Holocaust was different during and immediately following World War II. A RUSA Outstanding Reference Source 2025...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192843784)
The story of Churchills relationship with the various kings and queens he served during his long political career, from his time as a radical Liberal under Edward VII, through his Finest Hour in the Second World War, to his last premiership under El...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231215022)
Through the lens of food and agriculture, this book offers new ways to understand the roots of the post–Second World War global order and the US position in it. The United States’s superpower status is often associated with its industrial, fi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231215039)
The United States’s superpower status is often associated with its industrial, financial, and military might. Yet its global power after the Second World War hinged in part on something often seen as backward: agriculture. In contrast to Britain, the...Loe edasi...
From the pre-eminent WWII historian, an ardent chronicle of the unprecedented and far-sighted U.S. postwar decision to aid its enemies as well as its allies via the Marshall Plan, which led to eight decades of peace and prosperity in the West t...Loe edasi...
The riveting story of the ring of spies known as the Cambridge Five, who infiltrated the highest levels of the British establishment and helped Stalin cement a half century of Soviet domination over Eastern Europe The Cambridge Five w...Loe edasi...
During World War II, religious pacifist David Miller and a group of conscientious objectors made an extraordinary choice: they signed up for government-sponsored medical experiments that intentionally infected them with hepatitis. Their goal was sim...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: America Through Time, ISBN-13: 9781635001099)
It was a sailors dream: more than 100 bars, casinos and whorehouses, just a short boat ride across the Napa River that separated the sprawling Mare Island Naval Shipyard from Vallejo, California.Why bother to head for San Francisco, about 25 miles t...Loe edasi...
A gripping microhistory of wartime Brittany, tracing Saint-Casts journey from occupation and hardship to clandestine resistance and ultimate liberation, revealing the courage, conflict, and legacy of an ordinary community under extraordinary pressur...Loe edasi...
Museums in Israel After the Holocaust explores the influence of the traumatic events of the Holocaust on the formation of a cultural heritage policy during the foundational years of the State of Israel....Loe edasi...
Accounting for the Holocaust reveals how the numerical calculations, techniques and reports that constitute accounting practices allowed the attempted annihilation of Jews by the German Nazis and the Italian Fascists to be carried out with machine-l...Loe edasi...
The book offers an overview of corporatism in Fascist Italy. It examines not only the ideology, but also the acts and real activities of corporative institutions (corporazioni)....Loe edasi...
