world war (1939-1945)

From massive aerial battles that clouded the skies with planes to deathly secret operations deep behind enemy lines, the events of World War II are some of the most awe-inspiring of all time.

"16-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valya's been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble ..."--Dust jacket.

A memoir in which journalist Andy Rooney shares the memories of his experiences in World War II.

The naked body of an old man floats in a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. In one week it will be Adolf Hitler's 75th birthday. A terrible conspiracy is starting to unravel...what if Hitler had actually won World War II? What if the body that was found after the war did not belong to Hitler?.

Military historian Patrick K. O'Donnell has written an adventure story packed with action, suspense, intrigue, romance, and an unforgettable cast of characters. A small team of Americans parachuted into Italy behind enemy lines with the intent to link up with partisans and sabotage the well-guarded Brenner Pass which was the Nazi supply route through the Alps.

When the Allies stormed Berlin in 1945, Adolf Eichmann, the operator of the Final Solution, which used the concentration camps to kill millions, shed his SS uniform and vanished. Bringing him to justice required a fifteen-year chase by Nazi hunters and the Israeli Secret Service. The chase stretched from Europe to the shores of Argentina. When he was captured Israeli agents smuggled him out of Argentina to his trial in Israel.

Kristallnacht "night of broken glass", was one of the seminal events in Hitler's goal to destroy Europe's Jews. On this night Jewish shops, homes, businesses, and synagogues were destroyed and German Jewish children, in a single day, saw their well-ordered world destroyed.

At the height of World War II, a small group of Jews who were American citizens, having themselves barely escaped the Nazi regime, did the unthinkable: they went back and took on a perilous covert mission to strike at the Third Reich behind enemy lines.

Rasia Kliot survived the Holocaust on a false identity. Her daughter, Helen Mitsios was born in Montreal, Canada. Together they examine the long-term implications of being a Holocaust survivor and the unique pressures and anxieties the children of Holocaust survivors face. Rasia converted to Christianity and raised her daughter in the Catholic faith, forbidding her to speak of her Jewish identity. Addressing the complicated mother-daughter relationship, this memoir also follows Helen on her journey to Judaism and the acceptance of her cultural and religious heritage.

Stephen Nasser was thirteen years old when the Nazis took his family from Hungary to Auschwitz. His memories are terrifying and vivid.