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By July of 1944, the Third Reich's days were numbered. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, a general staff insider with open eyes (and access to the Fuhrer), was convinced that assassinating Hitler was the only way to prevent the destruction of the Fatherland and the deaths of millions. On July 20, he hid a bomb-stuffed briefcase at a high-level meeting. The explosion tore through the room, but a table leg spared Hitler from the blast. The result was a witch hunt, a wave of executions, and a further pointless year of war. Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh deliver an exhilarating and definitive portrait of the anti-Nazi movement (called "Secret Germany") that almost killed Hitler. Secret Germany is the story of "World War II's boldest plot-that-failed" (Time), a coup that was a moral and spiritual necessity.

The Second World War: A Definitive Account of the Conflict That Shaped the Modern World The Second World War was a cataclysm that reshaped human history. Born from the unresolved tensions of the First World War, it erupted into a conflict of unprecedented scale, ideological fervor, and unimaginable human suffering. Spanning continents and oceans, it was not just a struggle for power, but a battle of ideologies—democracy versus dictatorship, freedom versus tyranny, civilization versus annihilation. The Second World War examines the war’s origins, key battles, and human dimensions. It ...

What if Germany had chosen a different path? Winter 1942. As the battle for Stalingrad rages and the Third Reich marches toward catastrophe, a group of German officers takes a desperate gamble. Adolf Hitler is overthrown, the Nazi regime collapses, and Germany stands on the brink of civil war. But the struggle is only beginning. While loyalists fight to restore the old order, a new government emerges under the banner of the German Empire led by Kaiser Louis Ferdinand I. Facing enemies on every front, Germany must rebuild its shattered armed forces, restore stability at home, and continue a ...

Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history. D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished...

Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II. The Nuremberg Trial brilliantly recreates the trial proceedings and offers a reasoned, often profound examination of the processes that created international law. From the whimpering of Kaltenbrunner and Ribbentrop on the stand to the icy coolness of Goering, each participant is vividly drawn.

Local resistance to German-led Axis occupation occurred throughout the European continent during World War II, taking a wide range of forms - noncooperation and disinformation, sabotage and espionage, and armed opposition and full-scale partisan warfare. It is a key element in the experience and the national memory of those who found themselves under Axis government and control.

A fast-paced World War II historical novel based on the true story of holocaust survivors This historical novel, based on a true story, brings World War Two to a new level of reality and a descriptive intensity that will leave the reader spellbound. It brings to life the dramatic experiences of a woman caught between a ruthless government and the will to survive with her children during the last six months of World War 2 in Nazi Germany as she flees the incoming Russian front in the East and right into the carpet bombing in the West. This book brings this war down to a human level in a way ...

Mein Kampf, written by Adolf Hitler in 1924 during his imprisonment following the failed Munich coup known as the Beer Hall Putsch, has become one of the most infamous and dangerous texts of the 20th century. This book, conceived as an ideological and autobiographical manifesto, contains the fundamental principles and beliefs that would guide the policies of the Nazi Party and, eventually, Germany during the Third Reich. Since its publication, Mein Kampf has been the subject of extensive critical analysis, offering a direct insight into the doctrines that would lead to World War II and the ...

For seven decades, our understanding of World War II has been shaped by a standard narrative built on conventional wisdom, propaganda, the dramatic but narrow experiences of soldiers on the ground, and an early generation of historians. For his new history, James Holland has spent over 12 years unearthing new research, recording original testimony, and visiting battlefields and archives that have never before been so accessible.

Berlin 1945: The Collapse of the Third Reich is a powerful narrative history of the final act of Nazi Germany, chronicling the brutal months that led to the fall of Berlin and the end of the war in Europe. Beginning with the winter collapse of the German armies on the Eastern Front, the book follows the relentless advance of the Red Army and the desperate, often delusional decisions taken by the Nazi leadership as defeat became unavoidable. The story moves from the shattered front lines along the Oder to the ruined streets and bunkers of Berlin itself, where military resistance, civilian ...

An inspiring account from one of history’s darkest moments. Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was German. She was Jewish. She was a survivor. This is her story. As a young girl, Marione was aware that people of the Jewish faith were regarded as outsiders, the supposed root of Germany’s many problems. She grew up in an apartment building where neighbors were more than happy to report Jews to the Gestapo.

"One of the best new Nazi Germany books" - BookAuthority Hitler’s Home Front provides a compelling and comprehensive year-by-year account of ordinary life in wartime Germany, chronicling how the population tried to find normality during an unprecedented emergency. Drawing on a multitude of sources, this book spans from the mundane to the momentous, such as how people coped with rationing, crime, travel restrictions, bombing, and how civilian morale fluctuated as the war rapidly turned against the Nazis. The official newspapers of those years – including Das Reich, Völkischer Beobachter...

A prize-winning historian’s major new history of the Second World War, arguing that Stalin’s USSR was the war’s driving force. “A provocative revisionist take on the Second World War … McMeekin is a formidable researcher.” —Financial Times We remember World War II as a struggle...

Evans interweaves a broad narrative of the war’s progress with viscerally affecting personal testimony from a wide range of people - from generals to front-line soldiers, from Hitler Youth activists to middle-class housewives. The Third Reich at War lays bare the dynamics of a nation more deeply immersed in war than any society before or since. Fresh insights into the conflict’s great events are here, from the invasion of Poland to the Battle of Stalingrad to Hitler’s suicide in the bunker.

Audie Murphy was a desperately poor eighteen-year-old orphan when he joined the Army, nineteen when he first saw a buddy die from an enemy bullet and an enemy die from one of his own. By VE day, he had killed at least 240 Germans, had single-handedly destroyed a German tank in one battle and held off six tanks in another, and had become the most decorated soldier in American history, winning every medal his country offered, including the Congressional Medal of Honor.

This book is a meticulous reconstruction of a tragic episode in the history of the Nazi persecution of the Jews. The SS. St. Louis left Hamburg in May of 1939 with 937 Jewish refugees on board who thought they had bought visas to enter Cuba. Refused entry in Cuba and the United States the ship eventually had to turn around and return to Europe. The voyage to freedom was in the end nothing more than a roundabout journey to the concentration camps.

Experience hard-hitting military science fiction from Germany! Immerse yourself in a gripping story that tells of an alternate war. Author Hermann Weinhauer, known for his nerve-wracking frontline reports, presents “Imperium Germanicum,” an alternate history of the highest order. His series skillfully blends the genres of political thriller and war novel as Weinhauer answers what is arguably the most intriguing of all questions: What if …? February 1943: The Italian and German troops fighting in North Africa are urgently needed in Europe. The Kaiser has long since decided to abandon ...

The Third Reich has fallen. The war continues. The overthrow of Hitler saved Germany from destruction—but it did not bring peace. As the newly restored German Empire struggles to secure its future, the Eastern Front erupts once more. Vast Soviet armies gather for a decisive offensive aimed at crushing Germany before the new government can consolidate its power. The city of Rostov becomes the focal point of the coming storm. German infantrymen dig in along frozen defensive lines. Panzer crews prepare for battles of annihilation. Fighter pilots clash for control of the skies while ...

In 2009, three US professors with access to Adolf Hitler’s alleged remains startled the world with scientific DNA proof that the skull and bones that Russia had claimed since the end of World War II were Hitler’s actually belonged to a middle-aged woman whose identity remains unknown.

As Allied armies closed in from every direction, Adolf Hitler retreated deeper into isolation, fantasy, and denial. The Final Reckoning chronicles the dramatic final chapter of Nazi Germany, from the turning point of 1943 through the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945. It is a story of military disasters, political intrigue, secret weapons programs, assassination plots, propaganda campaigns, and increasingly desperate decisions made by a regime facing inevitable defeat. Readers are taken from the aftermath of Stalingrad and the Allied invasion of Europe to the final days inside Berlin's ...