World War II

One of the most inspirational stories of World War II. This book tells the full story of an extraordinary heroic women.... More

Sights and sounds of a glorious fortnight - tank pennants fluttering in the wind amidst the dust and fury of the battle, the gleam of the bayonets and the echo of the battle-cry as the infantrymen charged, the thunder of the guns as a barrage was laid….. Bangladesh, 1971, a legend is born. A veter... More

From the author of the bestselling "Tuxedo Park" comes the story of those thousands who came to a secret desert, where the world's leading physicists raced to invent the atomic bomb and bring World War II to an end. Winner of the MPBA award for adult fiction.In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brill... More

From bestselling author Baker comes a highly researched and surprising new book about the decades preceding World War II. "Human Smoke" is a superbly assembled narrative that encompasses the vast political, social, religious, and economic landscapes throughout the world.Bestselling author Nicholson ... More

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt not only influenced the policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but served the nation in her own right as she delivered the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the United Nations. Photos.Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World Meet Eleanor Roose... More

The outbreak of WW1 in 1914 found the British Army unready in many respects for a new age of warfare. However, the British led the world in the personal equipment worn by the infantryman thanks to an American officer named Anson Mills and the skills of the company created to produce his design - the... More

This new, one-of-a-kind volume contains original essays, historical and technical papers, and translations of historical materials and retrospectives concerning the German Enigma Cipher machine. Readers get a comprehensive view of the Enigma machine's development, uses, role in World War II Allied i... More

From Karl Marx to the Marx brothers, this volume presents a complete reference guide to more than one thousand prominent men and women who have shaped Jewish culture over the past twenty centuries.... More

When his family is deported to concentration camps in 1942, 20-year-old draftsman Cioma Schonhaus goes underground. Recruited to a network dedicated to rescuing Jews from the gas chambers, Schonhaus discovers a life-saving talent for falsifying identity cards. While working on his forgeries, he chan... More

After 60 years of silence, The Diary of Mary Berg is poised at last to gain the appreciation and widespread attention that it so richly deserves, and is certain to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank as one of the most significant memoirs of the twentieth century. From love to tragedy, ... More

From beginning to end, the captivating story of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose is an uplifting and enlightening account of the largely untold story of German resistance to the Third Reich. With details of Scholl 's arrest and trial before Hitler's Hanging Judge, Rol and Freisler, and including the... More

The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940, altered the course of the history of this century as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. The decisive importance of these five days of Lukacs's magisterial new book. illustrations.... More

The events of the Holocaust remain unthinkable to many men and women, as morally and intellectually baffling today as they were a half century ago. Inga Clendinnen seeks to dispel what she calls the "Gorgon effect: " the sickening of imagination and the draining of the will that afflict so many of u... More

The events of the Holocaust remain unthinkable to many men and women, as morally and intellectually baffling today as they were a half century ago. Inga Clendinnen seeks to dispel what she calls the "Gorgon effect: " the sickening of imagination and the draining of the will that afflict so many of u... More