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Tells the true story of a British soldier who was held in a POW labour camp in the summer of 1944 and willingly smuggled himself into the Buna-Monowitz concentration camp - known as Auschwitz III - to witness firsthand the cruelty there
De allieredes invasion i Normandiet 1944
A sequel to Richard Griffiths's two previous books on the British pro-Nazi Right: Fellow-Travellers of the Right : British Enthusiasts for Nazi Germany, 1933-9; and Patriotism Perverted : Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British Anti-Semitism, 1939-40. It follows the fortunes …
I 2004 arvede Tyler Trafford en papkasse fra sin mor fyldt med breve, avisudklip og krøllede fotografier, som åbenbarede en historie han ikke havde haft fantasi til at forestille sig. Brevene var fra Jens Müller, en norsk pilot, som var på træningsophold i Canada under 2. verden…
A biography of Richard Sorge (1895-1944), a man with two homelands, born of a German father and a Russian mother in the USSR. A member of the angry and deluded generation who found new, radical faiths after their experiences on the battlefields of the First World War, Sorge beca…
In April 1945, victorious Soviet forces encircled 80,000 men of the German 9th Army in the Halbe area, South of Berlin, together with many thousands of German women and children. The German troops, desperate to avoid Soviet capture
This title examines the immediate effects of Hitler's aggression towards the Scandinavian countries as well as the long-term legacies of Hitler's expansion and reach into Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland
The story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts - first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets - by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders
A biography of Winston Churchill. Draws on over forty new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous Churchill biography to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors
An account of the British Fifth Column and its activities during the Second World War. Drawing on hundreds of declassified official files - many of them previously unpublished - Tim Tate uncovers the largely unknown history of more than 70 British traitors who were convicted, mo…
How, and why, did the Holocaust happen? Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. This book combines their eyewitness testimony with the latest academic research
Autumn 1944: World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonour. Bill…
Betty Pack was charming, beautiful, and extremely intelligent - these qualities would prove crucial to her success as a spy. Using the code name "Cynthia", she seduced diplomats and military attachés across the globe in exchange for crucial secrets, but her missions went far bey…
This title tells the story of William Ash, an American flier brought up in Depression-hit Texas, who after being shot down in his spitfire over France in early 1942 spent the rest of the war defying the Nazis by striving to escape from every prisoner of war camp in which he was …