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Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize "A superb and immensely important book."―Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostThe Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years...The end of World War II in Europe is remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, but the reality ... [Read More]
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: “Beautifully told.”—CNN • “A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating.”—USA Today • “Oh, it’s a good one!”—Fox News A “beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies” emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Spearhead. Dec... [Read More]
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018)Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seriesAs the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the... [Read More]
#1 New York Times BestsellerEdith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner... [Read More]
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of The Nightingale and Sarah’s Key, inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom, and second chances.New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French ... [Read More]
On May 20, 1927, pilot Charles Lindbergh took off from New York City and headed east. Thirty-three hours, 30 minutes, and 3,610 miles later, he landed safely at Le Bourget Field, near Paris, France. He accomplished his historic flight in the Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis. It was the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean from the United States ... [Read More]
A wide-ranging and detailed survey dedicated to the protagonists of the contemporary art scene in Eastern Europe. As the title suggests, history, memory and identity are the principle “open questions” for many countries in Eastern Europe that have over the past twenty years seen their course in history change radically in the wake of the fall o... [Read More]
This text provides information about museums, sites, memorials, statues and cemetries in relation to D-Day and the battle for Normandy. It gives details of how to get to them and what to see, and with the aid of maps and photographs it gives the reader a comprehensive account of the major battles. It also helps the reader to understand what it was ... [Read More]
An indispensable sourcebook... Emphasis falls on the variegated, often joyful, culture of the Polish Jews, on what existed before the garden was ruined." ―Geoffrey Hartmann, The New RepublicFrom these marvelous selections, one can see an entire culture unfolding." ―Curt Leviant, New York Times Book ReviewThis newly revised version of the classi... [Read More]
Imagine sitting behind a desk, in a classroom, miles from anywhere in the English countryside, alongside dozens of fellow students, dreaming of being parachuted into Occupied France to undertake daring missions against Hitler's forces. What were you taught? What text books did they give you, and what homework and exams were you expected to pass in ... [Read More]
This is a museum-grade reproduction of the HQ 12th Army Group for WWII. Each quadrangle sheet shows the position of the 12th Army Group and adjacent Allied Forces and of the German units for each day from D-Day (6 June 1944) thru 26 July 1945. Date of situation printed on each sheet. Map projections differ: Projection-Europe (air) conical orthomorp... [Read More]
A new kind of guidebook. Each title in the series gives comprehensive information about: -- Major battles and battlefields-- Memorials, sites, cemeteries, and statues-- How to get there; what to see-- Contemporary eyewitness accounts-- Maps and then-and-now photographsThe Traveller's Guides help us understand what it was like to have endured the or... [Read More]
To better understand the true significance of the Holocaust, its scale and magnitude, millions of people each year now travel to the former camps, ghettos, and other settings for the atrocities. The Holocaust Sites of Europe offers the first comprehensive guide to these sites, including much practical information as well as the historical context. ... [Read More]
“[With Wings Like Eagles is] bold and refreshing… Korda writes with great elegance and flair.”—Wall Street Journal From the New York Times bestselling author of Ike and Horse People, Michael Korda, comes With Wings Like Eagles, the harrowing story of The Battle of Britain, one of the most important battles of World War II. In the words of t... [Read More]
Personal WWII Photographs from the German Wehrmacht - 30 individual photos. These photos were printed from a collection of vintage negatives that came from German soldiers. Images show the German War Machine in France, Italy, Poland, Russia, Balkins, Greece and throughout the WWII European Theater until their defeat in 1945.
Fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. Fewer than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their hopes and fears, their courage and optimism. 60 color illustrations.
In 1943, with the world convulsed by war and a Fascist defeat in Europe far from certain, a few visionaries—civilians and soldiers alike—saw past questions of life and death to realize that victory wasn’t the only thing at stake. So was the priceless cultural heritage of thousands of years.In the midst of the conflict, the Allied Forces appoi... [Read More]
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