German Russians

Germans migrated to Russia in the 1700’s and early 1800’s with the promise of good farmland. They formed colonies and were allowed to speak their native language, establish their own schools, and build their own churches. At the end of the Great War, Russia dropped an “iron curtain” around their border which trapped many Germans inside those boundaries. The German language was forbidden, the schools taken over by the new Russian government, and churches were shut down. The Germans were forced into a life of poverty, as the Communist demanded they share more and more of their crops, ...

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A rare, unfiltered memoir of a seventeen-year-old German soldier on the Eastern Front during the final winter of the Second World War—presented in a faithful English translation by his grandson. In the winter of 1944/45, the author—then a teenage Flakhelfer turned infantryman—found himself in East Prussia as the Red Army advanced toward the heart of the collapsing Third Reich. Written decades later, from memory and from notes scribbled during his time as a prisoner of war, his account offers a stark and deeply personal perspective on the brutal final months of the Secon World War. ...

Bloomsbury presents Generalship on the Eastern Front, 1941–45: A Study in Command by Robert Forczyk, read by Elliot Chapman A comprehensive evaluation of generalship on the most important front in World War II. The war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 was the largest sustained air-ground...

Gunter K. Koschorrek was a machine-gunner on the Russian front in WWII. He wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on. As keeping a diary was strictly forbidden, he sewed the pages into the lining of his thick winter coat and deposited them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing, and it was when he was reunited with his daughter in America some 40 years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow. 

Secrets of Encirclement Warfare: A Gripping Exploration of the Intersection of Land and Air Power Imagine being surrounded by enemy forces, with limited supplies and no clear escape route. This is the harsh reality of encirclement warfare, a tactic that has been used to devastating effect throughout history. From the frozen tundras of World War II to the jungles of Vietnam, encirclement has proven to be a game-changer on the battlefield. In this fascinating and deeply researched book, we delve into the world of encirclement warfare, exploring the successes and failures of this complex and ...

This program is read by the author, and includes excerpts from Richard Wagner's musical compositions throughout. A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals...

Now a major film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, and Robin Wright. From John le Carré, this New York Times bestselling spy thriller is his “strongest, most powerful novel” (The New York Times Book Review). A half-starved young Russian man in a long black...

BARBAROSSA is the story of the campaign that changed the Second World War forever. At 03:15 on 22 June 1941, Hitler unleashed the largest land invasion in history. Along a front stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, German guns opened fire, Soviet airfields burned, and entire armies were thrown into chaos before dawn had fully broken. The Wehrmacht came east expecting a short, annihilating campaign. What followed was one of the most savage military collisions ever fought — a campaign of breathtaking early victories, colossal encirclements, mass death, and a fatal illusion that the ...

The world is at war. And time is running out… London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter – leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the clockmaker who keeps Big Ben chiming. When Arthur disappears, Nell is...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. "With bald honesty and brutal lyricism" (Elle), the anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners...

A war-torn city. A dangerous secret. A shocking betrayal… Paris, 1940. War is closing in on the city of love. With his wife forced into hiding, Jacques must stand by and watch as the Nazis take away everything he holds dear. Everything except his last beacon of hope: his beloved bookshop, La...

The highly awaited new novel from the internationally bestseller, and author of The German Midwife (also published as A Woman of War). “Rich and captivating…a vivid story of love, sacrifice and betrayal.” –Woman’s World Venice, 1943 The world is at war, and Stella Jilani is leading a...

Ich bin noch nie überlistet worden, aber vielleicht habe ich jetzt einen ebenbürtigen Gegenspieler getroffen. Meine Arbeit bringt mich öfter mit Kriminellen ins Bett, als mir lieb ist. Als mich ein italienischer Gangster anheuert, um einen Mord aufzuklären, führt mich das zu ihm – Yuri Lenkov, der angebliche Attentäter der Bratva.

A gripping history of the Nazi invasion of Poland, the true onset of World War II “Exemplary...About as good as military history can be.” —Timothy Snyder, New York Times For Americans, World War II began in December 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Europe, the war began on...

“A poignant, tender story of families and sisters divided by the cruelty of political chance–my heart ached for them on every page." Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network *contains exclusive audio content* A city divided. When the Berlin Wall goes up, Karin is on...

In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna...

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Bloomsbury presents Where the Iron Crosses Grow: The Crimea 1941-44 by Robert Forczyk, read by Mark Meadows. The Crimean Peninsula was the setting for the destruction of a number of armies in World War II, both Soviet and German. When the Soviets fortified Sevastopol in 1941 it heralded the...

The fastest way to defeat an army is to make it too afraid to move German military vehicles are failing without warning. Convoys burn. Aircraft fail. A naval support vessel drifts helplessly in the Baltic sea. At first, the incidents look like maintenance errors — until the covert Edelweiss unit finds the pattern. Someone is sabotaging Europe’s military readiness, not to destroy NATO outright, but to make commanders doubt their own equipment when deterrence matters most. With Russian forces massing near the Baltic states, hesitation could be the first step toward an all-out European war...