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A comprehensive and compelling history of the resistance movements that operated in every German-occupied nation between 1939 and 1941.Even though much of Europe eventually succumbed to the Nazis during World War II, many Europeans defiantly resisted occupation in every way possible. This captivating book provides a survey of these resistance movements during the period of Axis occupation and recounts the ways in which unarmed citizens undermined Nazi efforts at domination. A thorough description of the Axis conquest of Europe, the formation of the Special Operations Executive in Britain, and the Office of Strategic Services in the United States provides a backdrop for this turbulent time in history.Chapters cover the resistance organizations, their leaders, and other key individuals behind their operations. The book details the movement's furtive tactics that included spreading information, providing the Allies with key intelligence, conducting industrial sabotage, destroying bridges and factories, and fighting behind the lines. Case studies of resistance operations in France, Norway, Holland, Denmark, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, the Balkans, Greece, Italy, and within Nazi Germany itself show the scope and breadth of the resistance movement throughout the world.

"Blood of the Emperors" is an exhilarating mix of history, mystery, and romance. It is a captivating blend of a contemporary adventure story and well researched historical fact.For Dan Marsh, his business partner Elizabeth Garvey and his daughter Charlotte the discovery of a Roman tear vial containing the blood of emperors drags them into a shadowy and dangerous world of deceit and misdirection.As they try to unravel the hidden truths behind some of histories most significant events they find themselves drawn further and further into the past, confronted with the secrets behind the meteoric ascendency of Adolf Hitler, the epic downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo and the rise and fall of the Roman Empire.The discovery that an ancient family, whose powerful and malevolent influence has led to the death of millions over the centuries, is also searching for answers about this mysterious liquid leads them into a desperate, dangerous and frantic chase to discover the true nature of blood of the emperors

In the final instalment of this gripping series, past meets present and dark secrets lurk beneath the façade of justice...

In 1930s Germany, young lovers Juliette and Peter, aspiring opera singers, are divided by political beliefs. Juliette's hatred for Hitler overwhelms her love for Peter, who must make a choice between Juliette and der Führer.

In December 1943, five courageous correspondents join a British air raid on Berlin. They are Australians, Alf King from the Sydney Morning Herald and Norm Stockton from the Sydney Sun; Americans, Ed Murrow from CBS and Lowell Bennett from the International News Service; and Norwegian journalist and activist, Nordahl Grieg. Each is assigned to one of the 400 Lancaster bombers that fly into the hazardous skies over Germany on a single night. Of the five, only two land back at base to file their stories. After parachuting out of his doomed aircraft, one reporter is taken prisoner. From there his captors take him on a remarkable tour of bombed-out German cities. In Dispatch from Berlin, 1943, Anthony Cooper and Thorsten Perl uncover this incredible true story of life on both sides of the war.

It's 1945. The Nazi occupation of Italy is in its closing days. But risk is ever present. It's been nearly two years since Sarah Zinsi found tenuous sanctuary in Switzerland. Unmoored in a foreign land, she heeds a rumor that her village on the Lake Como shore has been liberated. Clutching her young daughter, Sarah navigates the arduous mountain trek back home to be with Luca Benedetto, the father of her child. A resister to the end, Luca has one last assignment: assassinate Mussolini, the man who destroyed everything Luca cherished and who forced the love of his life to flee. Sarah's path crosses that of a charismatic and kindly black marketeer turned partisan spy. He vows to keep mother and child safe as Luca's perilous mission escalates and the Nazis' final moves devolve into chaos. But for Sarah and Luca, the pull of love, the will to survive, and the promise of a new family are greater than any odds against them.

An art crime thriller for the agesAlternating between London and Paris in the 1940s, the 1960s, and the present, Watching Over You explores the provenance of a collection of paintings hidden from the plundering Nazis during World War II and the fate of the families entangled in the search for the lost artworks.The novel touches on the themes of greed and heroism inspired by the stolen works, tracing the web of collaborators, opportunists, and art dealers who exploited the Third Reich’s lust for prestigious trophies. The hero, restaurateur Michel de la Rue, walks a financial tightrope while his spendthrift head chef and brother, Antoine, depletes their strained resources. The narrative switches between Michel and Antoine's foodie tour of France (which is being filmed by a documentary TV crew), the machinations of art dealer Alain Deschamps, and his pursuers—Interpol’s Lorenzo Pieters and the Le Monde journalist, Fabian Ritzier.The battle between Michel trying to protect his family’s precious heirloom and Alain’s brutal hunt for the missing paintings results in a relentless chase across the continent.

How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the HolocaustThe Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrases to describe their new reality. These crass, witty, and sometimes beautiful Yiddish words - Khurbn Yiddish, or "Yiddish of the Holocaust" - puzzled and intrigued the East European Jews who were experiencing the metamorphosis of their own tongue in real time. Sensing that Khurbn Yiddish words harbored profound truths about what Jews endured during the Holocaust, some Yiddish speakers threw themselves into compiling dictionaries and glossaries to document and analyze these new words. Others incorporated Khurbn Yiddish into their poetry and prose. In Occupied Words, Hannah Pollin-Galay explores Khurbn Yiddish as a form of Holocaust memory and as a testament to the sensation of speech under genocidal conditions. Occupied Words investigates Khurbn Yiddish through the lenses of cultural history, philology, and literary interpretation. Analyzing fragments of language consciousness left behind from the camps and ghettos alongside the postwar journeys of three intellectuals-Nachman Blumental, Israel Kaplan and Elye Spivak-Pollin-Galay seeks to understand why people chose Yiddish lexicography as a means of witnessing the Holocaust. She then turns to the Khurbn Yiddish words themselves, focusing on terms related to theft, the German-Yiddish encounter and the erotic female body. Here, the author unearths new perspectives on how Jews experienced daily life under Nazi occupation, while raising questions about language and victimhood. Lastly, the book explores how writers turned ghetto and camp slang into art-highlighting the poetry and fiction of K. Tzetnik (Yehiel Di-Nur) and Chava Rosenfarb. Ultimately, Occupied Words speaks to broader debates about cultural genocide, asking how we might rethink the concept of genocide through the framework of language.

The true story of the POW escape that later became the basis for the famous film The Great Escape, as told by Jens Müller, one of only three men who successfully escaped from Stalag Luft III in March 1944.

Scores of biographies have been written about Winston Churchill, yet none examine his frequent, sometimes furtive, trips to the White House, where he resided for weeks on end-the (often unclothed) visitor who "dropped out of the sky." These extended visits during his two terms as prime minister were spirited, even entertaining, occasions. Yet, in retrospect, they take on a new level of diplomatic significance, demonstrating just how influential a foreign leader can become in shaping American foreign policy. Drawing on years of research, Robert Schmuhl not only contextualises the days Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower spent together, but also vividly portrays the individual characters, from Churchill himself-a devoted fisherman who never stopped "angling"-to a resentful Eleanor Roosevelt. Evoking an era far different from today, Mr. Churchill in the White House becomes an insightful work for our own fractious times.

The Matilda Mk II tank, was an infantry tank used by the British Army during the Second World War. This tank was famous for its heavy armour and its ability to resist enemy attacks, especially in the early stages of the conflict. In fact, its armour made it virtually invulnerable to the anti-tank guns of the time. On the other hand, its speed and firepower were limited compared to the enemy tanks. It was armed with a 2-pound (40 mm) main gun and a coaxial machine gun. For all these characteristics, the British Matilda tank was nicknamed "the Queen of the Desert"!

Il carro armato Matilda Mk II fu un carro armato di fanteria utilizzato dall'Esercito Britannico durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Questo carro era famoso per la sua pesante corazza e la sua capacità di resistere agli attacchi nemici, soprattutto nelle fasi iniziali del conflitto. La sua corazza, infatti, lo rendeva praticamente invulnerabile ai cannoni anticarro dell'epoca. Per contro, la sua velocità e la sua capacità di fuoco erano limitate rispetto ai carri avversari. Era armato di un cannone principale da 2 libbre (40 mm) e una mitragliatrice coassiale. Per tutte queste caratteristiche il carro inglese Matilda era soprannominato "la regina del deserto"!

For decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist he'd befriended thrust both her paintings and her baby into his hands-and disappeared. In 1974, with only months left to live, Nick enlists Jenny, a college dropout desperate for adventure, to help him unravel the mystery. The journey leads them from Paris galleries and provincial towns to a surprising place: the Museum of Tears, the life's work of a lonely Italian craftsman. Determined to find the baby and the artist, hopeless romantic Jenny and curmudgeonly Nick must reckon with regret, betrayal, and the lives they've left behind.With characteristic warmth and verve, Ann Hood captures a world of possibility and romance through the eyes of a young woman learning to claim her place in it. The Stolen Child is an engaging, timeless novel of secrets, love lost and found, and the nature of forgiveness.

"Sometimes, democracy must be bathed in blood." General Augusto Pinochet A young Jesuit priest returns to Chile and a politically divided Catholic Church. After a violent military coup, his bishop assigns Alejandro the task of guiding and protecting the women of a church-sponsored workshop. At first reluctant to waste his time with lower-class women, Father Saavedra soon discovers their extraordinary courage and unexpected wisdom. He also comes to admire the beauty of the arpilleras, or tapestries, they create to protest the violence of General Pinochet's regime and its personal toll on their lives.. The women of the Holy Rosary workshop, brutally frank and disrespectful of all authority, gradually form a family with Father Saavedra and the three upper-class women who assist them in surprising ways. For nearly seventeen years, young or old, they share their personal stories, learn from each other, and fight against a government determined to incarcerate or kill anyone who opposes or criticizes them and quash their own countrymen's struggle for human dignity.

However, prejudice and persecution in the white world of the resort eventually compel Cowney to free himself from larger forces that hold him back as he struggles to unearth evidence of his innocence and clear his name.

Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. Letters for the Ages concentrates on the more intimate words of Winston Churchill, seeking to show the private man behind the public figure and shine fresh light on Churchill's character and personality by capturing the drama, immediacy, storms, depressions, passions and challenges of his extraordinary career. These letters take us into his world and allow us to follow the changes in his motivations and beliefs as he navigates his 90 years. There are intimate letters to his parents, his teacher at Harrow, his wife Clementine, Prime Minister Asquith, Anthony Eden, President Roosevelt, Eamon De Valera and Charles De Gaulle. The letters are presented in chronological order, with a preface to each explaining the context, and they are accompanied throughout by facsimiles of said letters and photographs, offering the reader a sense of Churchill in his most private moments.

Title: "Vittorio Emanuele: A King in Exile" by Alexandra Sterling In "Vittorio Emanuele: A King in Exile," the captivating historical account written by Alexandra Sterling, we embark on an intimate journey through the life of Vittorio Emanuele, the exiled king. This remarkable third part delves deep into his formative years, tracing his path from childhood to the heart-wrenching circumstances that led to his forced exile.The pages of this extraordinary book come alive as we witness the early life of Vittorio Emanuele, a child destined to bear the weight of a dynastic legacy. Sterling's meticulous research and vivid storytelling transport us to the royal court of Italy, where young Vittorio Emanuele's destiny was shaped, and his character forged.With exceptional eloquence, Sterling recounts the joys and sorrows of the young prince, offering a captivating glimpse into his personal struggles and triumphs. From his cherished moments with family and mentors to the challenges faced in navigating the complexities of royalty, the reader gains a profound understanding of the person behind the crown.As we delve further into Vittorio Emanuele's life, Sterling unearths the tumultuous events that would alter the course of history. The political upheavals and shifting allegiances surrounding the kingdom serve as a poignant backdrop to the king's eventual exile. With empathy and insight, the author portrays the emotional turmoil experienced by Vittorio Emanuele during this dark period.Stripped of his throne and removed from his homeland, Vittorio Emanuele's life takes an unforeseen turn as he grapples with his identity in exile. Sterling masterfully captures the struggles of a king forced to confront the loss of power, while endeavoring to maintain a sense of dignity and purpose.Through the eloquence of Sterling's prose, we witness the resilience of the exiled king, who, despite the odds, clings to his principles and finds solace in the unwavering support of the Italian people. In their unwavering loyalty and affection, we see the profound impact Vittorio Emanuele had on his nation, and the profound bond he shared with his people."Vittorio Emanuele: A King in Exile" leaves an indelible mark on readers, resonating as a testament to the enduring spirit of a monarch who endured the trials of history and emerged as an emblem of hope and perseverance. Alexandra Sterling's magnum opus is not merely a historical account but an ode to the human spirit and a tribute to the unbreakable connection between a king and his nation.This groundbreaking book stands as a profound exploration of a king's life, shedding light on the often-unseen aspects of history while captivating readers with the compelling tale of Vittorio Emanuele, the exiled king who continues to inspire and touch the hearts of people worldwide.

She's given up hope. He never had any. Will they find it together?World War II is finally over, and America is extra grateful as the country approaches this year's Thanksgiving. But for Francine life hasn't changed. Despite working at Fort Meade processing the paperwork for the thousands of men who have returned home, she's still lonely and very single. Is she destined for spinsterhood?Grateful that his parents anglicized the family surname after emigrating to the United States after the Great War, first-generation German-American Ray Fisher has done all he can to hide his heritage. He managed to make it through this second "war to end all wars," but what American woman would want to marry into a German family? Must he leave the country to find wedded bliss?

Bologna, 1944, le strade brulicano di soldati tedeschi. La diciannovenne Leila Venturi entra nella Resistenza dopo la notizia scioccante che Rebecca, la sua migliore amica e figlia di un importante uomo d'affari ebreo, è stata brutalmente deportata in un campo di concentramento.Nel febbraio 1981, la studentessa straniera Rhiannon Hughes arriva a Bologna per studiare all'università. Qui, prende in affitto una stanza da Leila, che ora è una donna matura. Suo nipote Gianluca si offre di farle visitare la città, ma Leila la mette in guardia da lui.Ben presto Rhiannon si ritrova coinvolta in una rete di intrighi. Qual è l'interesse di Gianluca per un gruppo di estrema destra? E in che modo il perfido leader di questo gruppo è collegato a Leila? Quando dal passato emergeranno degli oscuri segreti, Rhiannon si troverà di fronte a una scelta terribile. Prenderà il coraggio a due mani e rischierà tutto? La Ragazza di Bologna è un romanzo struggente e profondamente commovente; una storia straziante e toccante di coraggio e redenzione.

Una storia emozionante e avvincente basata su eventi realmente accaduti durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale…Lidia De Angelis ha tenuto un profilo basso da quando le leggi razziali di Mussolini l'hanno strappata dal suo primo amore. Ma quando i tedeschi occupano Venezia nel 1943, è costretta a scappare dalla città per salvare la propria vita.Lidia si unisce ai partigiani sulle montagne del Veneto, dove incontra David, un soldato inglese che combatte per la stessa causa. Man mano che si affeziona a lui, le dure rappresaglie tedesche e le appassionate attività patriottiche di Lidia minacciano di separarli.Decenni dopo, a Londra, mentre passa in rassegna gli effetti personali della nonna dopo la sua morte, Charlotte scopre un libro di preghiere ebraico, lettere non aperte scritte in italiano e una fotografia sbiadita che ritrae un gruppo di giovani davanti al Palazzo Ducale.Incuriosita dal rifiuto della nonna di parlare della sua vita in Italia prima e durante la guerra, Charlotte si reca a Venezia alla ricerca delle sue radici. Lì, apprende non solo la devastante verità sul passato di sua nonna, ma anche alcune verità sorprendenti su se stessa.

Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them.Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura's prearranged marriage to the son of her father's business associate would secure her family's status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man--an American sailor, a gaijin--and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it's learned Naoko carries the sailor's child, she's cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences that will ripple across generations.America, present day. Tori Kovac, caring for her dying father, finds a letter containing a shocking revelation--one that calls into question everything she understood about him, her family and herself. Setting out to learn the truth behind the letter, Tori's journey leads her halfway around the world to a remote seaside village in Japan, where she must confront the demons of the past to pave a way for redemption.In breathtaking prose and inspired by true stories from a devastating and little-known era in Japanese and American history, The Woman in the White Kimono illuminates a searing portrait of one woman torn between her culture and her heart, and another woman on a journey to discover the true meaning of home.

A atuação dos militares na 2a Guerra Mundial. O livro relata do inicio ao fim da missão da FEB

"Amid the chaos and uncertainty of World War II, a remarkable love story unfolds. Meet a courageous young combat medic, Staff Sergeant Edmund Kruszynski, whose dedication to saving lives takes him to the front lines of battle. He returns home adorned with medals, yet the battle still rages within. Follow the journey of the medic's wife Mary, whose strength and devotion gets tested as their seemingly unbreakable bond teeters on the edge. Will Mary's vow to protect her husband's secrets hold firm, or will the weight of what happened cause their world to unravel? Some vows...are destined to be broken."--Page 4 of cover.

Childress reveals numerous secrets of the Black Sun in this final volume in his series about the Fourth Reich. David Childress, popular author and star of the History Channel show Ancient Aliens, unveils the amazing story of the German flying disks, designed and built during WWII. It was not until 1989 that a German researcher named Ralf Ettl, living in London, received an anonymous packet of photographs and documents concerning the planning and development of at least three types of unusual craft--including the Vril, Haunebu and Andromeda. Ettl went on to make several television documentaries based on the material in the packet and released most of the documents and photos to researchers in Austria and other parts of Europe. What the Ralf Ettl document dump shows us is what many have suspected for a long time: that WWII did not end in the manner in which we have been told, and a remnant of the Nazi military--particularly the SS--continued to operate aircraft and submarines around the world in the decades after the end of the war. This volume closes with how the SS operates today in the Ukraine and how the Wagner second in command, Dimitry Utkin, killed in the fiery crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin's private jet between Moscow and St. Petersburg in August of 2023, had SS tattoos on his shoulders and often signed his name with the SS runes. Chapters include: Secrets of the Black Sun; The Extra-Territorial Reich; The Rise of the SS; The SS Never Surrendered; Secret Submarines, Antarctica & Argentina; Secret of the Vril; The Marconi Connection; Spectre, the SS, and 007; Yellow Submarine; Ukraine and the Battalion of the Black Sun; A Separate Power and Secret Society; more. Includes a 8-page color section. Over 120 photographs and diagrams.