World War II Day by Day
By A. Shaw,Anthony Shaw,Antony Shaw
Overview of World War II from 1939 to 1945 presented in a "day by
day" format with numerous photos.
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
By William L. Shirer
No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about
its birth and destruction as the Third Reich. When the bitter war was over,
and before the Nazis could destroy their files, the Allied demand for unconditional
surrender produced an almost hour-by-hour record of the nightmare empire
built by Adolph Hitler. This record included the testimony of Nazi leaders
and of concentration camp inmates, the diaries of officials, transcripts
of secret conferences, army orders, private letters -- all the vast paperwork
behind Hitler's drive to conquer the world.
Here is the complete story of Hitler's empire, one of the most important
stories ever told, written by one of the men best equipped to write it.
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Stalag Luft III: The Secret Story
By Arthur A. Durand
Stalag Luft III is the camp most commonly associated with the Allied prisoner
of war experience in World War II Germany. Housing mainly British and American
flyers, it was the historical setting for the movie The Great Escape. As
with most Hollywood treatments, however, the film blurred the line between
fact and fiction. In Stalag Luft III: The Secret Story, Arthur A. Durand
offers the first comprehensive historical examination of what camp life
was actually like, from the mundane drudgery of the prisoners' daily lives
to their harrowing struggle for survival against an enemy responsible for
the deaths of millions. Relying on coded records kept by appointed camp
historians, as well as personal interviews, letters, logs, diaries, and
recently declassified government documents, Durand combines scholarship
with dramatic narrative.
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The Buchenwald Report
By David A. Hackett
In the closing weeks of World War II, advancing Allied armies uncovered
the horror of the Nazi concentration camps. The first camp to be liberated
in western Germany was Buchenwald, on April 11, 1945. Within days, a special
team of German-speaking intelligence officers from the U.S. Army was dispatched
to Buchenwald to interview the prisoners there. In the short time available
to them before the inmates' final release from the camp, this team was to
prepare a report to be used against the Nazis in future war crimes trials.
Nowhere else was such a systematic effort made to talk with prisoners and
record their firsthand knowledge of the daily life, structure, and functioning
of a concentration camp. The result was an important and unique document,
The Buchenwald Report. Shockingly, not long after the war ended The Buchenwald
Report was almost lost forever. Only selected portions were entered as evidence
at the Nuremberg trials. Professor Eugen Kogon, a prisoner at Buchenwald
who assisted the Army specialists in conducting their interviews and writing
the report, made use of the material gathered as a background source for
his classic book, The Theory and Practice of Hell, but subsequently his
copy was accidently destroyed. Thus the complete report was never published,
and both the original document and a precious handful of copies gradually
disappeared. Recently - more than four decades later - a single, faded carbon
copy was discovered, apparently the only one still in existence. It is translated
from German and presented here in book form, as its authors intended, for
the first time.
The
Second World War - a complete hstory
By Martin Gilbert
It began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. By the
time it came to an end on V-J Day - August 14, 1945 - it had involved every
major power and become global in its reach. In the final accounting, it
would turn out to be, in both human terms and material resources, the costliest
war in history, taking the lives of forty million people.
Now, in one brilliant volume, eminent historian Martin Gilbert offers the
complete history of the Second World War. With unparalleled scholarship
and breadth of vision, Gilbert, the official biography of Winston Churchhill
as well as one of the leading experts on the Holocaust, weaves together
political, military, diplomatic, and civilian elements to provide a global
perspective on the war, creating a work that is both a treasure trove of
information and a gripping, dramatic narrative.
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Page
One - The Front Page history of World War II as presented in The New York
Times
The powerful immediacy of witnessing world-shaping events as they happen
is captured in this exciting collection of front page stories from The New
York Times.
Sweeping from Germany's invasion of Poland to the ecstatic banner headlines
announcing the surrender of Japan, these are the front page items that kept
the nation and the world informed.
Page One: The Front Page History of World War II is an impressive, permanent
chronicle of the banner days during the years that forever changed the face
of our civilization. This powerful reminder that we should "never forget"
gathers all the front page news of the most destructive war in history,
a war that brought a world to the brink of self-destruction.
Mein
Kampf
By Adolf Hitler,Ralph Manheim (Translator)
Translated by Ralph Manheim with a new introduction by John Lukacs. A
compilation of Hitler's most famous prison writings of 1923--the bible of
National Socialism and the blueprint for the Third Reich.
Mein
Kampf online - from Sun Site Northern Europe (Dept. of Computing, Imperial
College, UK)
Hogan's
Heroes - Behind the Scenes at Stalag 13