world war 1939-1945

A unique book that records the Nazi attempt to destroy the Jews of Europe during World War II. The author hand drew 316 maps for this atlas. Each map traces each phase, country-by-country, of Hitler's attempt to erase the Jews. Describes the anti-Semitic violence of prewar Germany, the conquest of territory in which Jews had lived for centuries, the random killings, the establishment of ghettos, the deliberate starvation of tens of thousands, the deportations, the creation of the death camps, the slave-labor system, the death marches, and the executions---up to the very moment of liberation. Arranged in chronological order, the maps bear witness to the tragedy of the Jewish Holocaust as it unfolds week-by-week. This book also details the deaths of others the Nazis killed---Gypsies, Russian POW's, Spanish republicans, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. The maps also set the Holocaust in the context of the war itself as the Nazi armies advanced throughout Europe.

Jean Moulin was a French Resistance hero of World War II. Eventually his whereabouts were betrayed to the Nazis and he was tortured by Klaus Barbie, the infamous "butcher." But who was the enigmatic Moulin really? His story is full of unanswered questions and is far more complicated than is generally known.

At the end of May 1945, twelve thousand Slovenian soldiers boarded trains in Austria. They thought they were on their way to freedom in Italy. Their true destination was Slovenia and death. These soldiers were caught up in the maelstrom of war and politics in the Balkans and the post-war settlement. Thousands were returned by British troops to face death at the hands of their war-time enemies---Tito's Partisans. Some managed to survive and the story of their exile to places like Argentina, the USA, Canada, and Britain, is a testament to their strength and courage.

In 1937, a schoolteacher on the Island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance. Their goal was to become Olympians and the odds were seemingly insurmountable. They were Japanese-Americans, malnourished, barefoot, and had no pool but had to train in filthy irrigation ditches. Their future was the same as their parents'--working in the sugar cane fields and known by their numbered tags, not their names. In their first year the children outraced Olympic athletes twice their size, in their second year they were National and International champs, in their third year they would face their greatest obstacle--the dawning of World War II and the cancellation of the Games. On the battlefield they become the twentieth century's most celebrated heroes, and in 1948, they had one last chance for Olympic glory.

The author was the only writer authorized by the Nazi party to write a biography of Adolf Hitler for the English-speaking world. The result was a 1938 publication. This 2014 edition has a new introduction by historian Bob Carruthers, and is based on the same interviews and information in the 1938 book.

Personal accounts by the leading characters and information from top-secret files from MI5, MI6, and the CIA, tell the story of Agent Cicero, who was working for the British ambassador in Ankara in 1943 when he became a double agent for the Nazis.

Set in the Ardennes Forest on a Christmas Eve during World War II, six GI's are establishing an observation post in an abandoned chateau close to German lines. They think they are in complete isolation but the Germans may not be as far away as they think.