world war ii

For more than twenty-five years the March of the Living in Poland has brought together survivors and students from all over the world to ensure that firsthand accounts of the Holocaust are not lost. As they walk through concentration camps, ghettos, and towns depleted of Jewish communities, a special bond forms as the original witnesses to the Holocaust pass their mantle to a new generation whose task it is to remember what they hear and see. Although Jews were the largest group slated for extermination, the Nazis also killed those who differed with Nazi beliefs: trade unionists, Communists, homosexuals, Roma (gypsies), Russian POW's, and the disabled. But the Jewish people alone were ultimately subjected to the goal of total annihilation.

On April 29, 1945, the forward battalions of Rainbow Division, 42nd Infantry, were moving swiftly toward Munich. They had survived four months of costly and bitter combat. They were optimistic and confident as the war was coming to an end. Amost half of the soldiers were eighteen to twenty years old. And then their road led to the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp. To the horrors of war they added the horrors of Dachau. This book honors the memories of the American liberators whose lives were forever changed by what they saw on April 29, 1945. The editor of the book was a Rainbow soldier.

Provides an overview of how and why the war in the Pacific came about, major battles, military strategy and excerpts from personal narratives of those who experienced it.

Francis Joseph Cassavant is eighteen. He has just returned home from the Second World War, and he has no face. He does have a gun and a mission: to murder his childhood hero. Francis lost most of his face when he fell on a grenade in France. He received the Silver Star for bravery, but was it really an act of heroism? Now, having survived, he is looking for a man he once admired and respected, a man adored by many people, a man who also received a Silver Star for bravery. A man who destroyed Francis' life.

On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, Gavrilo Princip took a pistol out of his pocket and started World War I by assassinating the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His actions changed the world forever. In this book, the author retraces Princip's steps and shows how the events that took place that day in June 1914 still have an influence in our world today.

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.

In 1943 Ontario, six girls fresh out of high school live and work together on a farm as part of the Farm Service Force, taking the roles of the men who were fighting in the war abroad.

Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka shared a secret---they were pregnant. Separated from their husbands they were scared. After losing so much to the Nazis, they were determined to hold on to their unborn babies. Against all odds, the three women survived, gave birth under horrible circumstances, and went on to build new lives with their children after World War II. Their stories of hardships and miracles almost defy belief. Sixty-five years later, the three "miracle babies" (two girls and a boy) share the story of their mothers who defied death at the hands of the Nazis to give their children life.

John Charles Robinson, an African American from Gulfport, Mississippi, first knew he wanted to fly as a seven-year-old boy when he saw his first airplane. Amazingly his dream came true and in 1935 he became a commander of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force during the Italo-Ethiopian War, which was the first Facist invasion of what would go on to become World War II. His story has been forgotten in the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War and the world-wide chaos of World War II.