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Verlorene Siege Verlorene Siege Erich von Manstein Originally published in Germany in 1955, and in England and the United States in 1958, this classic memoir of WWII by a man who was an acknowledged military genius and probably Germany's top WWII gen… OL1358572W
Memorialization in Germany since 1945 Memorialization in Germany since 1945 Bill Niven "Memorialization in Germany since 1945 provides a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary Germany's rich memorial landscape. It discusses the many memorials to German losses during the Second World W… OL15441317W
Afrikakorps soldier, 1941-43 Afrikakorps soldier, 1941-43 Pier Paolo Battistelli "Though it went on to become the most famous German formation of World War II, the men of the early Afrikakorps had no experience of desert warfare. Yet, in a matter of months, they proved themselves… OL15949758W
Ostkrieg Ostkrieg Stephen G. Fritz On June 22, 1941, Germany launched the greatest land assault in history on the Soviet Union, an attack that Adolf Hitler deemed crucial to ensure German economic and political survival. As the key th… OL16342371W
The pursuit of the Nazi mind The pursuit of the Nazi mind Daniel Pick The remarkable story of how the Allies used psychoanalysis to delve into the motivations of the Nazi leadership and to explore the mass psychology of fascism. OL16717916W
Hitler's First Victims Hitler's First Victims Timothy W. Ryback The remarkable story of Josef Hartinger, the German prosecutor who risked everything to bring to justice the first killers of the Holocaust and whose efforts would play a key role in the Nuremberg tr… OL17047853W
The Third Reich at war The Third Reich at war Sir Richard J. Evans FBA FRSL FRHistS The final volume in Richard J. Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a "people's community to serve a war of c… OL1745834W
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
Third Reich victorious Third Reich victorious Peter Tsouras Third Reich Victorious is a gripping and terrifying alternate history, and a tellling insight into what a close run thing World War II really was. OL18374490W
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
The Secret War The Secret War Brian Johnson 400p.,[24]p. of plates : 18cm OL18821877W
The women who flew for Hitler The women who flew for Hitler Clare Mulley "Despite Hitler's dictates on women's place being in the home, two fiercely defiant female pilots were awarded the Iron Cross during the Second World War. Other than this unique distinction and a pas… OL19716132W
Erich von Manstein Erich von Manstein Benoît Lemay Manstein was one of the most prominent commanders of Germany's World War II armed forces and one of the best military strategists of the entire war. This book provides a full portrait of Manstein inc… OL19939922W
The monuments men The monuments men Robert M. Edsel "In a race against time, a group of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others--called the Monuments Men--risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destructio… OL19971954W
50 children 50 children Steven Pressman Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 19… OL19975945W
A brief stop on the road from Auschwitz A brief stop on the road from Auschwitz Göran Rosenberg A "memoir by a journalist about his father's attempt to survive the aftermath of Auschwitz in a small industrial town in Sweden"--Dust jacket. OL19994923W
Nazi Germany Nazi Germany Catherine Epstein "Provides an up-to-date historical synthesis based on the latest research in the field"-- OL20002305W
The German War The German War Nicholas Stargardt "Drawing on a wealth of first-hand testimony, the German War is the first foray for many decades into how the German people experienced the Second World War. Told from the perspective of those who li… OL20010345W
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 Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World Wa… OL20049184W
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