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On January 20, 1942, a meeting lasting one and a half hours took place in a villa at Wannsee. The only item on the agenda was the organization of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question". In fact, it was about a deportation and mass murder project with enormous dimensions, about which representatives of the security authorities and the ministries of the "Third Reich" discussed with each other.The historian Peter Klein, a profound expert on the subject, gives a dense overview of the development that led to this conference and of the contents that were discussed there. He shows the significance of this coordination meeting and how its aftermath unfolded. Facsimiles of key documents on the "Wannsee Conference" - including the minutes of the proceedings - make it possible to reconstruct the events from the fi les of the authorities involved and to grasp the specific character of this administrative murder of millions.

Besides the persecution and annihilation of the Jewish community, the quest for Lebensraum was a pillar of the Nazi's ideology. The march east, operation 'Barbarossa' (1941), was essentially the final part of the geopolitics of the Third Reich. Historian Pierik takes readers into the world of ideas behind these politics, where cold blooded, rational elements go hand in hand with myths and radical beliefs. An example of solid and, more importantly, understandable historiography>Important step in a necessary discussion>Orpheus-like descent- Herman Veenhof

In this glamorous historical spy novel, a savvy socialite embroils herself with international spies, Nazi sympathisers, the king of England, and his American mistress.

The relatively unknown story of the Leitz family, the Third Reich's use of Gentile forced labor, and its prisons. It is a life-affirming story of survival, resilience, and the ways World War II continues to influence our present moment.

War Torn Book 1, is an historical fiction/ romance novel set against WW2. The book follows the story of Frances Meyer, a young French/English violin virtuoso, as she battles to survive the rigors and horrors of war and the threats from the man who was once a friend.It is October 1942. Whilst trying to escape by boat from France to England with her ailing Jewish husband, Frances finds herself shipwrecked and alone in the Atlantic. She is rescued by a German U-boat setting out on patrol, commanded by Kapitan Kristian Mueller. Frances must learn to come to terms with the death of her husband, and the dangerous and dreadful conditions on board a U-boat. The constant noise from the engines, the smell of diesel, cramped conditions, one toilet, not to mention fifty young men, all of whom are oozing testosterone.Despite an initial dislike for one another, Frances and Mueller find that they cannot ignore the chemistry between them, and they embark upon a clandestine affair. This affair is quickly brought to an end when the U-boat returns to port and Frances is torn from the arms of her lover. She is arrested by the SS, and interned in Drancy holding camp, where she befriends a young Jewish woman who teaches her the art of survival. When they are later sent to Auschwitz, Frances finds that surviving a death camp is virtually impossible, and even more so when there are those from both sides who want you dead.

''OK, Joe!'' the American lieutenant calls out to his driver. He hops into his jeep and heads out through French countryside just liberated from the Nazis. With him is the narrator of this novel, Louis, a Frenchman engaged by the American Army as an interpreter. Louis serves a group of American officers charged with bringing GIs to account for crimes - including rape and murder - against French citizens. The friendly banter of the American soldiers and the beautiful Breton landscape stand in contrast to Louis''s task and his growing awareness of the moral failings of the Americans sent to liberate France. For not only must Louis translate the accounts of horrific crimes, he comes to realize that the accused men are almost all African American. Based on diaries that the author kept during his service as a translator for the US Army in the aftermath of D-Day, OK, Joe follows Louis and the Americans as they negotiate with witnesses, investigate the crimes, and stage the courts-martial. Guil

Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe it best, and indeed to symbolize the war's tragic arc and lethal fury.His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice. With bitter irony, Owen's mother received the telegram informing her of his death on November 11, just as church bells tolled to celebrate the war's end.Korda's dramatic account, which includes anecdotes from his own family history, not only brings to life the soldier poets but paints an unforgettable picture of life and death in the trenches, and the sacrifice of an entire generation. His cast of characters includes the young American poet Alan Seeger, who was killed in action as a private in the French Foreign Legion; Isaac Rosenberg, whose parents had fled czarist anti-Semitic persecution and who was killed in action at the age of twenty-eight before his fame as a poet and a painter was recognised; Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, whose friendship and friendly rivalry endured through long, complicated private lives; and, finally, Owen, whose fame came only posthumously and whose poetry remains some of the most savage and heartbreaking to emerge from the cataclysmic war.As Korda demonstrates, the poets of the First World War were soldiers, heroes, martyrs, victims, their lives and loves endlessly fascinating-that of Rupert Brooke alone reads like a novel, with his journey to Polynesia in pursuit of a life like Gauguin's and some of his finest poetry written only a year before his tragic death. Muse of Fire is at once a portrait of their lives and a narrative of a civilisation destroying itself, among the rubble, shadows, and the unresolved problems of which we still live, from the revival of brutal trench warfare in Ukraine and in the Middle East.

Gale and Polden's Sniping, Scouting and Patrolling is one of the most sought after of WWII British Military manuals.

Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporising thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100,000 men, women, and children were killed. Black Snow is the story of this devastating operation, orchestrated by Major General Curtis LeMay, who famously remarked: "If we lose the war, we'll be tried as war criminals".James M. Scott reconstructs in granular detail that horrific night, and describes the development of the B-29, the capture of the Marianas for use as airfields, and the change in strategy from high-altitude daylight "precision" bombing to low-altitude nighttime incendiary bombing. Most importantly, the raid represented a significant moral shift for America, marking the first time commanders deliberately targeted civilians which helped pave the way for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later.Drawing on first-person interviews with American pilots and bombardiers and Japanese survivors, air force archives and oral histories never before published in English, Scott delivers a harrowing and gripping account, and his most important and compelling work to date.

"With cinematic vividness, Bulgakov puts us on the streets of a gracious, historic city as it is successively besieged by invading Germans, Ukrainian nationalists, the Red Guard of the Bolsheviks, and the White Guard loyal to the recently executed tsar. The Turbin siblings, once wealthy and secure in Russia, have fled to Kiev to escape the ongoing civil war, but find themselves surrounded by chaos and danger."--

A comparative examination of the Dieppe Raid of 1942. This book looks at the questions raised by the raid by examining the events of other amphibious landings and land battles where heavy bombers provided support. Drawing on Official Reports, including Operational Research, a variety of "what if" scenarios are presented examining the possible versus the plausible.

From the bestselling historical saga author of The Orphan in the Peacock Shawl! Sometimes a glimpse into the past can help make sense of the future ... Everyone thinks Lexi is crazy when she falls in love with Hollingsworth House - a crumbling old Georgian mansion in Yorkshire - and nobody more so than her husband, Dylan. But there's something very special about the place, and Lexi can sense it. Whilst exploring the grounds she stumbles across an old diary and, within its pages, she meets Allie - an Australian nurse working in France during the First World War. Lexi finally realises her dream of buying Hollingsworth but her obsession with the house leaves her marriage in tatters. In the lonely nights that follow, Allie's diary becomes Lexi's companion, comforting her in moments of darkness and pain. And as Lexi reads, the nurse's scandalous connection to the house is revealed...

New edition of Van Gogh in the popular Masterpieces of Art series.Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books, Van Gogh Masterpieces of Art features all of the best-known works of one of the most famous artists in the world, preceded by a fresh and thoughtful introduction providing lively commentary on his life, society, places and style and techniques, including the powerful animation of his strident brushwork.

Gli abitanti di Tamarisk Bay stanno impegnandosi ad affrontare la tragedia della guerra. Ad un anno dall'inizio della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, le comunità costiere devono fare fronte agli incessanti bombardamenti da parte dei tedeschi. Il disagio colpisce le famiglie a tutti i livelli, dal razionamento del cibo alla scarsità di vestiti.Ognuno sta facendo del proprio meglio per arrangiarsi. In casa Latimer viene trovato un capo di abbigliamento, poco dopo che un grande magazzino di abbigliamento per uomo è stato bombardato. I paesi e le città vicine stanno subendo saccheggi su larga scala, si parla che vengano inflitte punizioni severe: un ergastolo; forse anche impiccagione.E' stato commesso un reato? Riuscirà il sergente Snow ad arrivare alla verità prima che l'unita comunità di Tamarisk Bay venga divisa in due da sospetti ed accuse?

Desperate to distance himself from the stolen loot buried behind his parents garden shed and still grieving the sudden loss of Max his first real girlfriend, Byrney has decided to go to France with the sole purpose of locating a certain war grave. Moved by the recent death of an old work colleague Eve, Byrney hopes to find redemption for himself and at the same time reunite Eve's ashes with those of her deceased husband Paul Larouchamps, who'd been murdered by the Gestapo during the Occupation of France in 1943.Accompanied by his school friend Fionn who is also starting out on a career of her own in France at Paul's younger brother, Henri's hotel in Nice, it's a brave move on their part. Despite their obvious youth and naivety, it's a move which they both feel comes perfectly natural to them. Initially Byrney is confident of overcoming the difficulties in locating this thirty three year old grave, somewhere in the Pyrenees, but he is soon plagued by the dangers that lie in wait for him; like the mysterious man following him and the fact that those responsible for the betrayal and murder of Paul Larouchamps are still be at large. Armed only with a smidge of badly pronounced French and just a single point of contact in the south of France, Byrney has a mountain to climb in more ways than one.

New edition of Gustav Klimt in the popular Masterpieces of Art series.Gustav Klimt, well known for his sensual, arresting depictions of women (The Kiss, Fulfillment, The Tree of Life), was a founder of the Viennese Secession movement at the turn of the 20th century, Vienna's own Art Nouveau. His extravagant work, was an obsessive manifestation of the dazzling intellectual society of his time and he painted very large canvases combining oils with gold foil. This beautiful new book brings together a wide selection of Klimt’s magnificent work.

The book intends to critically evaluate the publications concerning the history of the Jews from Romania and Hungary (1945-1953) identified in Romania and Hungary, providing a description of historical context where the Jewish community developed its activity in the aftermath of the Second World War, when it severely reduced in terms of numbers, destroyed as community in terms of state of health of its members and materially affected by the consequences of the war. Nevertheless, even in the first years after the war they tried to re-build as members of of their community and later on to collaborate with the communist party for a better status or emigration in Israel. The most important issue of the time was the emigration of Romanian Jews in Israel and the negotiations which were pursued with the view of reaching this objective. From the volume, it results that the Jews were rather victims of the communism than beneficiaries, as it was often considered. Through the intermediation of the books and articles and of the collaboration with Jewish community from Oradea, author succeeded to know the Jews which come with their culture and traditions to enrich the cultural variety.

Im Zuge der Debatte über Sammlungsgut aus kolonialen Kontexten steht Georg Zenker (1855-1922) exemplarisch für eine Generation von Sammlern, die in der Hochphase des Imperialismus disziplinenübergreifend Sammlungen für die Berliner Museen zusammenbrachten. Zenker gilt dabei als eine zentrale und zugleich sehr ambivalente Person in der Geschichte des deutschen Kolonialismus in Westafrika. Basierend auf umfangreichem Quellenmaterial nähert sich die vorliegende Publikation der Biografie sowie den Sammelpraktiken, Objekten und Netzwerken Georg Zenkers.Mit dem vorliegenden dreisprachigen Band auf Deutsch, Englisch und Französisch sollen die Erkenntnisse über Zenker für einen größeren Interessentenkreis zugänglich gemacht werden. In the course of the debate on collections from colonial contexts, Georg Zenker (1855-1922) is exemplary for a generation of collectors who brought together interdisciplinary collections for the Berlin museums during the heyday of imperialism. Zenker is considered a central and at the same time very ambivalent figure in the history of German colonialism in West Africa. Based on extensive source material, this publication approaches the biography as well as the collecting practices, objects and networks of Georg Zenker.With this trilingual volume in German, English and French, the findings on Zenker are to be made accessible to a wider circle of interested parties. Dans le cadre du débat sur les collections provenant de contextes coloniaux, Georg Zenker (1855-1922) est un exemple de la génération de collectionneurs qui, à l'apogée de l'impérialisme, ont réuni des collections interdisciplinaires pour les musées berlinois. Zenker est considéré comme une personne à la fois centrale et très ambivalente dans l'histoire du colonialisme allemand en Afrique de l'Ouest. Se basant sur de nombreuses sources, la présente publication aborde la biographie ainsi que les pratiques de collecte, les objets et les réseaux de Georg Zenker.Le présent ouvrage trilingue en allemand, anglais et français vise à rendre les connaissances sur Zenker accessibles à un plus grand nombre d'intéressés.

This book is a compilation of memoirs and articles about the British South Africa Police involvement in military operations outside Southern Rhodesia during World Wars 1 & 2. Most have appeared before in various magazines many years ago, but these earlier and fragmented publications are now difficult for the ordinary reader to access and so are re-published here in one easy to read book.Part One covers World War 1 and consists of various memoirs written by men who took part in the events, with connecting and explanatory text. There is thus some duplication but it is interesting to read how different writers had different interpretations of events. The obituaries of leading figures and Nominal and Medal rolls are included.Part Two covers World War 2. There were much less actual military operations as the BSAP was no longer the de facto army of Southern Rhodesia. However, some 138 members of the BSAP were seconded to various units in North Africa, the Dodecanese, Iraq and Burma, where they served with distinction. Many wrote articles about their experiences and these are reproduced here. After their return many rose to high rank in the Force.A nominal roll is included.