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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Valkyrie Valkyrie Boeselager, Philipp Leopold Antonius Hubertus Freiherr von Follows Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager and his fellow officers as they begin to understand the horrors perpetrated by the Third Reich and decide that they must assassinate the Führer. OL15416557W
Hitler's Last Days Hitler's Last Days Bill O'Reilly By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving Ge… OL17935034W
Countdown to Valkyrie Countdown to Valkyrie Nigel H. Jones A chilling account of the most famous assassination attempt on the life of Adolf Hitler. It also recounts the many previous ones, and goes on to describe utter savagery of the reprisals after Valkyri… OL18698115W
The Fall of Berlin, 1945 The Fall of Berlin, 1945 Antony Beevor The Red Army's invasion of Berlin in January 1945 was one of the most terrifying examples of fire and sword in history. Frenzied by terrible memories of Wehrmacht and SS brutality, the Russians wreak… OL1881603W
Hitler (Profiles in Power) Hitler (Profiles in Power) Ian Kershaw Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness. From his illegitimat… OL1924195W
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi epoch Adolf Hitler and the Nazi epoch Paul Madden xiii, 740 p. ; 23 cm OL1969473W
Life and death in the Third Reich Life and death in the Third Reich Peter Fritzsche "[...] Peter Fritzsche deciphers the puzzle of Nazism's ideological grip. Its basic appeal lay in the Volksgemeinschaft -- a "people's community" that appealed to Germans to be part of a great projec… OL19884002W
The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941 The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941 James Holland " In The Rise of Germany, the first of a major new three-part history of World War II in the West, he weaves together the experiences of dozens of individuals, from civilians and infantrymen, to line… OL20012520W
Blitzed Blitzed Norman Ohler "The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping bestseller reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine an… OL20052734W
Picture Book of Anne Frank Picture Book of Anne Frank David A. Adler,Karen Ritz,Randye Kaye Traces the life of the young Jewish girl whose diary chronicles the years she and her family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. OL21847078W
Blitzkrieg Blitzkrieg Len Deighton Deighton, author of SS-GB and other thrillers, turns to history again with this companion piece to his own, more dramatic Fighter (1977). Paralleling that chronicle of the Battle of Britain, Blitzkri… OL2425023W
Militärstrategie Deutschlands 1940-1945 Militärstrategie Deutschlands 1940-1945 Heinz Magenheimer 352 p. : 20 cm OL2561848W
Contending with Hitler Contending with Hitler David Clay Large Contending with Hitler is a distillation of recent scholarship on Germany's domestic resistance to the Nazi dictatorship. Consisting of twelve original essays, it sets forth the issues that specialis… OL2630242W
Martyrs To Madness Martyrs To Madness Ted Gottfried Discusses how the Nazis came to power in Germany and the systematic brutalization they perpetrated on such groups as the Jews, Gypsies, Catholics, homosexuals, and others. OL37291W