German Survival

In no less than seven concentration and extermination camps, the Polish-Jew Noach (Natan) Żelechower was imprisoned during World War II. His first wife and their daughter were transported from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka and perished there during the Great Deportation of the Warsaw Jews in the summer of 1942, and he was left alone to face the threat of Nazi persecution and death. With great resilience, fortitude, and the hope to be reunited with his wife and daughter, Noach was able to withstand and survive the hardships of the camp world, forced labor, and death marches. Throughout the...

At seventeen, he was thrown into the deadliest front of World War II. In 1942, a young German soldier was sent to the Eastern Front—into the icy Caucasus Mountains. Surrounded by cold, fear, and despair, he faced horrors that no teenager should ever endure. Wounded three times, every day could have been his last. More than eighty years later, his memories come to light—a raw and unfiltered testimony of survival, fear, and resilience—also available as an unabridged audiobook on Audible and Spotify. Inside this powerful World War II memoir, you will discover: • Survival against all ...

A beautiful story of wartime survival, this is the romantic love story about a young Austrian Jewish girl who survives WWII by hiding from the Nazis whilst living amongst them in Hitler’s Munich. There was a knock on the door of the apartment. She looked through the spyglass to see two Gestapo officers standing there. What did they want, had they come for her? Had she been discovered after all this time? Was she about to lose everything, including her life? Rebecca was a beautiful teenager with many friends who loved her. However, for her, life as a young Austrian woman would change ...

This book explores the Nazi occupation of Poland 1939-1945--and how ordinary people survived, resisted and endured during those horrible years. Here, with information smuggled out of Poland by the underground resistance, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs documented the Nazi regime’s systematic plan to erase an entire nation: to destroy its culture, enslave its people, and extinguish resistance through terror. Inside this rare report are: Translations of Nazi laws designed to annihilate Polish identity Eyewitness accounts of deportations, executions, and village massacres Chilling ...

A handler trusts her dog. A mountain holds them captive. A bond that will be tested by fire and ice. Maya Ruiz and her K-9 partner, Echo, are a legendary search-and-rescue team, their bond forged in the unforgiving peaks of the high Rockies. For Maya, a former army medic haunted by the losses she couldn’t prevent, the work is more than a job—it’s a reason to live. Echo is more than a dog; she’s the partner who rescued her handler first. But their well-honed skills are put to the ultimate test when a "Code One" alert shatters a perfect winter morning. A massive avalanche has ...

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This is a WW2 story of great courage and survival against almost impossible odds. During the year of 1942, Yvette Jackson, a young fun loving and very beautiful twenty year old girl was enjoying her second year as a medical student training to be a doctor. However, her world turned upside down when requested to attend the office of her professor, who informed her that she had an unknown visitor waiting for her. She’d received a visit from the mysterious caller, who simply called himself, Mr. Black. She discovered this man worked at the offices of “The Department of Fish & Fisheries” ...

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Während Ben, Joel, Allie und ihr Hund Gunner ihre Reise durch das von einem EMP verwüstete Land fortsetzen, stellen sich ihnen bei jedem Schritt ständig neue Herausforderungen. Der Kampf, sich durch die postapokalyptische Einöde zu schlagen, um Allies Vater in Pittsburgh zu finden und sich mit Joels Bruder und Schwester in Maryland wiederzuvereinigen, stellt Bens Fähigkeiten als ehemaliger Army Ranger auf die Probe.

As World War II collapses around them, Sergeant Peter Dietrick and the battered remnants of his German platoon are trapped between advancing American forces and the brutal demands of the Nazi SS. The war is lost. But survival is not guaranteed. With supplies running out and winter closing in, Dietrick must lead his exhausted soldiers through the chaos of a dying regime — where fear, loyalty, and the instinct to stay alive collide on every frozen road. Hunted from both sides and haunted by the cost of war, the men of 3rd Platoon face impossible choices that will test their courage, their ...

Könntest du deine Liebsten beschützen? Jüngste EMP-Angriffe haben das Land in einen Zustand des Chaos und Aufruhrs versetzt. Mit zwei seiner Kinder an der Ostküste hat Ben Davis Colorado hinter sich gelassen und sich mit seinem ältesten Sohn Joel, einer von Joels Klassenkameradinnen, Allie, und dem Familienhund Gunner auf eine Reise quer durch das Land begeben. Nur noch sehr wenige moderne Fahrzeuge sind funktionsfähig, aber dank Joels 1972er Chevy Blazer sind Ben und seine Crew mobil und in der Lage, Vorräte zu transportieren.

"An extraordinary saga." —David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon The mesmerizing account of a granddaughter's search for a World War II family history hidden for sixty years Growing up in Paris as the daughter of a German mother and an Irish father, Svenja...

Im August 1897 bricht der belgische Kommandant Adrien de Gerlache auf, um die Antarktis zu erobern. Bereits auf dem Weg gen Süden gibt es zahlreiche Rückschläge: Stürme, Beinahe-Meutereien, Strandungen. Als der nach Ruhm strebende de Gerlache schließlich vor der Wahl steht, geschlagen nach Hause zurückzukehren oder kurz vor Wintereinbruch tiefer ins Eis zu fahren, entscheidet er sich für Letzteres – mit fatalen Folgen. Die Belgica bleibt im Packeis stecken.

This powerful Cold War novel tells the story of two cousins, one German and the other an American Army brat, as they navigate the political and social turmoil that threatens their friendship and ends in the abrupt rise of the Berlin Wall–which may separate them forever. Drew is an army brat, a...

In the Shadow of the Führer A gripping WWII novella of shattered beliefs, survival, and a boy trapped inside history’s deadliest lie. Berlin, April 1945. The Third Reich is falling. Soviet tanks roll toward the heart of the city. Amid the rubble and ruins, fifteen-year-old Hans runs messages between Hitler’s bunker and the collapsing front lines. What he sees changes everything. Burned-out streets. Starving civilians. Public executions of “traitors.” With every step, Hans begins to question the world he once believed in. The Reich’s lies are crumbling—but will he escape their ...

She thought it was just another routine hacking job. But in fact she was walking into a war Katja Liebermann lives for the digital underworld—fast jobs, faster money, and a reputation as one of Berlin’s sharpest freelance hackers. But when the head of a powerful hacker group, called The Circle, drags her into a dangerous government hack, Katja discovers she’s been set up as the disposable pawn in a conspiracy worth killing for. When Katja uncovers a hidden purge buried deep inside a NATO system, she realises she’s the only one standing between the truth and a world-scale cover-up. ...

Im atemberaubenden Finale der »The Inheritance Games«-Reihe werden die Antworten auf lang gehütete Geheimnisse enthüllt, Rätsel gelöst und unerwartete Entdeckungen gemacht. Im letzten Teil der Bestsellerreihe findet das größte aller Spiele sein Ende. Der Gewinner bekommt alles: Geld, Liebe, Macht, Rache – aber um welchen Preis ...

Dieses Buch ist von Menschen erdacht und geschrieben. Genau so, wie Geschichten sein sollten. Die Untoten sind fast ausgelöscht. Ein skrupelloser General gibt ihnen eine zweite Chance. Mitten in der Nacht bricht Chaos aus. Tate und sein Team sind in einem von Zombies überrannten Außenposten gefangen. In den grausamen Folgen finden sie einen einzigen Hinweis, der darauf hindeutet, dass dies kein Unfall war. Im Zentrum des Angriffs steht der Selbstmordkönig, ein psychotischer, macht- und rachsüchtiger General, der eine zweite Zombie-Apokalypse entfesseln will, um seine Ziele zu erreichen.

Hans Unterwald doesn’t pull triggers — he pulls strings When the Berlin Wall falls, one man sees opportunity in the wreckage. Ex–Luftwaffe pilot Hans Unterwald spent the Cold War uncovering traitors inside his own ranks — until the system paid him to keep quiet. Now he sells silence for a living. In the chaos of a reunited Germany, Unterwald becomes the Fixer: the man politicians call when scandals need to vanish and enemies need to disappear. But when he seizes a cache of stolen Stasi files, he discovers the deadliest currency in Europe isn’t money — it’s information. And ...

Ein Virus – so tödlich, dass Ebola dagegen wie ein leichter Schnupfen wirkt – rafft die amerikanische Bevölkerung in Rekordgeschwindigkeit dahin. Als ob das noch nicht schlimm genug wäre, kehren die an der Krankheit Verstorbenen zurück, bedrohen die wenigen Überlebenden und hinterlassen eine Spur des Chaos und der Verwüstung. In der zerstörten Zivilisation gilt nun nur noch eine Regel: Überleben, koste es, was es wolle! Die letzte Hoffnung der Regierung ist eine strategisch geplante Militäroperation.