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Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
For fans of the Netflix series The Crown, a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II.
Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, his American wife, Wallis Simpson, the bizarre wartime Nazi plot to make him a puppet king after the invasion...
Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, his American wife, Wallis Simpson, the bizarre wartime Nazi plot to make him a puppet king after the invasion...
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
870 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany's mass murder of Europe's Jews. . . . An account of unparalleled vividness and power that reads like a novel. . . . A masterpiece that will endure." - New York Times Book Review
The Years of Extermination, the completion of Saul Friedländer's major historical opus on Nazi Germany and the Jews, explores the convergence of the various aspects of the Holocaust, the most systematic...
Author
Publisher
Caliber, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xvi, 542 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An enthralling work of popular history that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi rule. Nazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless ordinary, everyday Germans actively resisted Hitler. Some passed industrial secrets to Allied spies. Some forged passports to help Jews escape the Reich. For others, resistance was as simple as writing a letter denouncing the rigidity of Nazi...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A single photograph-an exceptionally rare "action shot" documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family-drives a riveting process of discovery for a gifted Holocaust scholar"--
This book is about the potential of discovery that exists, if we choose to delve into it. It is also about the voids that exist in the history of genocide. Perpetrators of genocide not only kill, they seek to erase the victims from the written records and...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxxviii, 488 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants. This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years' work - examines the two tyrants during the Second World War, when Germany and the Soviet Union fought the biggest and bloodiest war in history. Yet despite the fact they were bitter opponents, Laurence Rees shows that Hitler and Stalin were, to a large extent,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of the wives of officers in Hitler's inner circle. Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann-names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margarete, Lina, Ilse and Gerda... These are the women behind the infamous men-complex individuals with distinctive personalities who were captivated...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xix, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen. Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In [this book], Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time. To say...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
651 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic story of the Third Reich--how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose to power and plunged the world into a horrific war, perpetrating the genocidal Holocaust while sacrificing the lives of millions of ordinary Germans. In The Third Reich, Thomas Childers shows how the young Hitler became passionately political and anti-Semitic as he lived on the margins of society. Fueled by outrage at the punitive terms of the Versailles Treaty...
Author
Publisher
The Bodley Head
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939--a riveting account of the dictator's final years, when he got the war he wanted but his leadership led to catastrophe for his nation, the world, and himself."--
17) The Kaiser's web
Author
Series
Cotton Malone volume 16
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor of Germany. One is a patriot having served for the past sixteen years, the other a usurper, stoking the flames of nationalistic hate. Both harbor secrets, but only one knows the truth about the other. They are on a collision course, all turning on the events of one fateful day - April 30, 1945 - and what happened deep beneath Berlin in the Fürherbunker. Did Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun die there? Did...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
ix, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A story of one family's extraordinary courage and resistance amidst the horrors of war from the author of The Secret Rooms. As war swept across Europe in 1940, the idyllic life of Fey von Hassell seemed a world away from the conflict. The daughter of Ulrich von Hassell, Hitler's Ambassador to Italy, her marriage to Italian aristocrat Detalmo Pirzio-Biroli brought with it a castle and an estate in the north of Italy. Beautiful and privileged, Fey...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xv, 256 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When on July 20, 1944, a bomb-boldly placed inside Hitler's headquarters by Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg-exploded without killing the Führer, the subsequent coup d'état against the Third Reich collapsed. The conspirators were summarily shot or condemned in show trials and sadistically hanged. One of the few survivors of the conspiracy was Hans Bernd Gisevius, who had used his positions in the Gestapo and the Abwehr (military intelligence)...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels creates films and pictures used to prepare the Germans for "Total War" and the Holocaust. When the war is lost, he conceives his last staging, the most radical propaganda act still possible for him.