In early 1945, the Red Army plunged into the Third Reich from the east, rolling up territory and crushing virtually everything in its path, with one exception: the city of Breslau, which Hitler had declared a fortress-city, to be defended to the death. This book examines in detail the notorious four-month siege of Breslau.

• The first full-length English-language account of the bloody siege
• Chronicles the bitter struggle as the Red Army encircled Breslau and eventually pillaged the city, taking savage retribution on the survivors
• Details the brutal methods used by the city's Nazi leaders to keep German troops fighting and maintain order

After the 1939 Soviet and 1941 Nazi invasions, the people of Southeast Poland underwent a third and even more terrible ordeal when they were subjected to mass genocide by the Ukrainian Nationalists. Tens of thousands of Poles were tortured and murdered, not by foreign invaders, but by their fellow citizens--sometimes neighbors, relatives, and former friends. The children who survived them vividly remember these atrocities and now, many decades later, tell their tragic tales. These accounts, never before published in English, describe the brutal murders these children witnessed, their own miraculous survival, and the heroic rescues that saved them.

Verslag op basis van egodocumenten van de laatste dagen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Duitsland, toen veel Duitse burgers zelfmoord pleegden uit wanhoop en ontreddering over de nederlaag van de nazi's.

Frederick Taylor tells the story of Germany's Year Zero and what came after. He describes the final Allied campaign, the hunting down of the Nazi resistance, the competition between Soviet Russia and the West, and the initially naive attempt at expunging Nazism from all aspects of German life.

East Prussia 1945. Seven-year-old Liesabeth Otto lost her mother and siblings while fleeing the Red Army. Alone she wanders through the forests and ends up in the neighboring Baltic States in search of food and shelter. She struggled for years under incredible privation, always on the lookout for Soviet henchmen. A harrowing fate, at the same time a panorama of German-Soviet post-war history.

Tijdens de Spaanse Burgeroorlog gaan vier mannen op weg om een belangrijke tegenstander te doden.

Klappentext: Ab 1944 werden Tausende deutsche Kinder in Ostpreußen von ihren Familien getrennt - viele für immer. Gegen Hunger, Kälte und sowjetische Willkür führen sie einen Kampf um Leben und Tod. Auf sich allein gestellt, überleben diese sogenannten "Wolfskinder" in den Wäldern des Baltikums. Von litauischen Bauern gerettet, bleiben sie unter falscher Identität hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang zurück. Nach jahrzehntelangem Schweigen erzählen sie erstmals von den Schrecken der Vergangenheit. Aber auch von Menschen, die ihnen den Weg in die Zukunft wiesen.

Overzicht in dagboekvorm van de politieke ontwikkelingen in Europa tijdens de laatste maand voor het uitbreken van de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Gedetailleerde beschrijving van de verovering van Berlijn door de Russen in 1945.

WORLD HISTORY: SECOND WORLD WAR. In the spring of 1941, having abandoned his plans to invade Great Britain, Hitler turned the might of his military forces on to Stalin's soviet Russia. The German army quickly advanced far into Russia as the Soviet forces suffered defeat after defeat. With brutality and savagery displayed on both sides, the Eastern front was literally a campaign in which no prisoners were taken and no quarter was given.Although Hitler's decision to launch 'Barbarossa' was one of the crucial turning points of the war, at first the early successes of the German army pointed to the continuing triumph of the Nazi state. As time wore on, however, the Eastern front became a byword for death for the Germans - to be transferred to the front was the fate feared most by any member of Germany's armed forces.In "War without Garlands", Robert Kershaw examines the campaign largely through the eyes of the German forces who were sent to fight and die for Hitler's grandiose plans.

Overzicht in woord en beeld.

"The establishment and subsequent liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto has become an icon of the Holocaust experience, yet, remarkably, a full history of the ghetto has never been written, despite the publication over some sixty years of numerous memoirs, studies, biographical accounts, and primary documents. The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City is this history, researched and written with painstaking care and devotion over many years and now published for the first time in English." "In this bookthe authors explore the history of the ghetto's evolution, detailing the daily experience of its thousands and thousands of inhabitants from its creation in 1941 to its liquidation in 1943. Encyclopedic in scope, the book encompasses a range of topics from food supplies to education, religious activities to the structure of the Judenrat. Separate chapters deal with the mass deportations to Treblinka in July 1942 and the famous uprising in April 1943. Detailed original maps identify the locations of businesses, social institutions, medical facilities, and more, while biographical notes, a glossary of terms, and an extensive bibliography complete this masterful work of restoration."--BOOK JACKET.

A devastating, day-by-day record of life in the second-largest Jewish ghetto in Nazi Europe--a community that was reduced from 163,177 people in 1941 to 877 by 1944. Compiled by inhabitants of the ghetto and illustrated with more than seventy haunting photographs, the Chronicle is a document unparalleled among writings on the Holocaust.
"A remarkable piece of testimony. To read it is to pay the dead the small tribute of remembrance, and to be devastated by a picture of a particular and terrible hell."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto tears at the mind and heart and leaves a dark and numbing rage in the center of the soul."--Chaim Potok, The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Fascinating, disturbing."--Elie Wiesel, The New York Times Book Review
" Dobroszycki] has done a major service not only to historians and students of the Holocaust, but to all those, both Jews and non-Jews, who are interested in how a tyrannical regime can exploit, starve, and deceive tens of thousands of intelligent, articulate people in time of war."--Martin Gilbert, The New York Review of Books
"Sober yet unforgettably vivid."--S.S. Prawer, Times Literary Supplement
"A milestone in Holocaust studies. Its wealth of information and accuracy, and the systematic manner in which it was compiled, makes in an unequalled source on the history of the destruction of European Jewry."--Alexander Zvielli, The Jerusalem Post Magazine
"Well worth reading as a record of extremes of human experience."--Majorie Meehan, M.D., American Journal of Psychiatry
"Dr. Dobroszycki is a survivor of the ghetto. He is also a trained historian with a sophisticated, finely honed mind. No one knows as much about these records as he does. No one understands them better."--Raul Hilberg
Lucjan Dobroszycki is a historian at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and Yeshiva University.

Als Gerard Kremer in 1941 huismeester wordt van een kantoorpand aan de Westermarkt 2 (Huize Labor) in Amsterdam, om de hoek van wat we nu kennen als het Achterhuis, heeft hij nog geen idee welke rol hij zal gaan spelen in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Door omstandigheden en omdat hij zijn ogen niet wil sluiten voor wat er gebeurt, belandt hij langzamerhand in het verzet. Als in de daaropvolgende periode de Wehrmacht een deel van het pand bezet houdt voor geheime activiteiten en Gerard daarbij nog besluit Joodse onderduikers te huisvesten, speelt hij gevaarlijk spel. Dat wordt hem bijna fataal.0Een waargebeurd verhaal over "De kruidenier van de Westermarkt", die door zijn unieke positie illegaal voedsel kon verstrekken aan de omgeving van het Achterhuis. 0Dit verhaal is gebaseerd op ware gebeurtenissen. Het werpt tevens een geheel nieuw licht op het verraad van het Achterhui.

Verhandeling over de politieke rol van Lord Londonderry voor en tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Het leven van een Vlaamse jongen in de jaren 1939-1947, waarin tevens een beeld wordt gegeven van het leven in Vlaanderen in een periode van oorlog, collaboratie en strijd om het overleven.

"The information has been methodically collected and divided... [giving] the reader a clear picture...The analysis of the Holocaust period is enriched by accounts from the human aspect, which further our understanding of the individual's action and their motives."--Prof. Dina Porat, the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University"A comprehensive work on the third largest Jewish community in Poland during the Nazi occupation...The research constitutes an important contribution to the history of the Holocaust in general and to the history of Polish and Ukrainian Jewry of this period in particular."--Prof. Israel Gutman, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and former Head Historian, Yad Vashem

Beschrijving van de activiteiten van de Colonne Henneicke, een groep van zo'n 50 Nederlandse jodenjagers.

Opstellen over Nederlandse schrijvers voor, tijdens en na het fascisme en de Duitse bezetting. Wat gebeurde er in de crisistijd die voorafging aan de Tweede Wereldoorlog? En hoe reageerden Nederlandse schrijvers op het Italiaans fascisme, de Duitse besetting en de daarop volgende zuivering van het culturele leven onder het Militair Gezag van na de Bevrijding?

In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the ravages of the Great War, its people were desperate to rebuild their lives in a newly safe and stable era. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe to war, a war that would have a profound and lasting impact on millions of innocent people. From the bestselling historian Frederick Taylor, 1939: A People's History draws on original British and German sources, including recorded interviews, as well as contemporary diaries, memoirs and newspapers. Its narrative focuses on the day-to-day experiences of the men and women in both countries trapped in this disastrous chain of events and not, as is so often the case, the elite. Their voices, concerns and experiences lend a uniquely intimate flavour to this often surprising account, revealing a marked disconnect between government and people; few ordinary citizens in either Britain or Germany wanted war. Precisely for that reason, 1939: A People's History is also an interrogation of our capacity to go to war again. In today's Europe, an onset of uncertainty, a looming fear of radical populism and a revelatory schism are dangerously reminiscent of the perils of the autumn of 1938. It is both a vivid and richly peopled narrative of Europe's slide into the horrors of war, a war that nobody wanted, and, in many ways, a warning; an opportunity for us to learn from our history and a reminder that we must never take peace for granted.

Alistair Cooke, then a Washington correspondent for the Guardian, recognized a great story to be told in investigating at first hand the effects of the Second World War on America and the daily lives of Americans as they adjusted to radically new circumstances. Within weeks of the Pearl Harbor attack, Cooke set off with a reporter�s zeal on a circuit of the entire country to see what the war had done to people. He talked to everyone he encountered on his extensive trip, from miners to lumberjacks, to war-profiteers, to day-laborers, to local politicians � even the unfortunate Japanese-Americans who had been rapidly interned in stark, desert camps. This unique travelogue celebrates an important American character and the indomitable spirit of a nation that was to inspire Cooke�s reports and broadcasts for some sixty years.

This country`s most distinguished historian of the Second World War ... Overy`s book is easily the best account of Europe`s descent into the death and destruction that were Hitler's element` Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard

24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will help him. The West must stop them. If they fail, the world will go to war.

Richard Overy`s dramatic account re-creates hour-by-hour the last days of peace, as politicians and the public braced themselves for a war they feared might spell the end of civilization.

Beschrijving van de gebeurtenissen tijdens de laatste weken van Adolf Hitlers leven.

September 1938. In power more than five years, Hitler unilaterally dismantled the Treaty of Versailles, provision by provision, daring Britain and France to stand up to him. Earlier that year, he forced Austria into his Third Reich without firing a single shot. Now his sights were set on Czechoslovakia.

It was in this dangerous climate that the first anti-Nazi coup was born. The plot was spearheaded by Lieutenant-Colonel Hans Oster, and its members included top German military leaders, the Berlin police, local troop commanders, civil authorities, religious leaders, and a group of resisters whose names have been wiped from the pages of history. Their mission was to kill Hitler and to overthrow the Nazi regime.

Using British and German sources and previously unknown documents in the Military History Institute of the U.S. Army War College, historian Terry Parssinen has documented this conspiracy. Illustrated with photographs and maps, this highly provocative work is narrative history at its best.

Annotation. No historical event has exerted more influence on Americas postWorld War II use of military force than the Anglo-French appeasement of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Informed by the supposed grand lesson of Munichnamely, that capitulating to the demands of aggressive dictatorships invites further aggression and makes inevitable a larger warAmerican presidents from Harry Truman through George W. Bush have relied on the Munich analogy not only to interpret perceived security threats but also to mobilize public opinion for military action. In The Specter of Munich, noted defense analyst Jeffrey Record takes an unconventional look at a disastrous chapter in Western diplomatic history. After identifying the complex considerations behind the Anglo-French appeasement of Hitler and the reasons for the policys failure, Record disputes the stock thesis that unchecked aggression always invites further aggression. He proceeds to identify other lessons of the 1930s more relevant to meeting todays U.S. foreign policy and security challenges. Among those lessons are the severe penalties that foreign policy miscalculation can incur, the constraints of public opinion in a modern democracy, and the virtue of consistency in threatening and using force. The Specter of Munichconcludes that though todays global political, military, and economic environment differs considerably from that of the 1930s, the United States is making some of the same strategic mistakes in its war on terrorism that the British and French made in their attempts to protect themselves against Nazi Germany. Not the least of these mistakes is the continued reliance on the specter of Adolf Hitler to interpret today's foreign security threats.

Verslag van het functioneren van de Duitse contraspionagedienst in Nederland tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog en van het gebruik dat zij daarbij maakten van de Nederlander Anton van der Waals.