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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to hold out as long as it did. The Third Reich did not surrender until Germany had been left in ruins and almost completely occupied. Even in the...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research to shed new light on the man behind the public personaùfrom Hitler's childhood and his failures as a young man in Vienna to his First World War experience and his rise as a far-right party leader.
9) Wolf by wolf
Author
Series
Wolf by wolf volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"The first book in a duology about an alternate version of 1956 where the Axis powers won WWII, and hold an annual motorcycle race across their conjoined continents to commemorate their victory"-- Provided by publisher.
10) Munich
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
A spy thriller about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September 1938. Hugh Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving at 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Rikard von Holz is on the staff of the German Foreign Office--and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. The two men were friends at Oxford...
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Language
English
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Description
Noting that concentration camps were not where most of the victims of Nazism and Stalinism died, Snyder (history, Yale U.) investigates the murder of 14 million people by Nazi and Soviet regimes at killing sites in the "bloodlands," the geographic region between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union, encompassing the Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, the Baltics, and western Russia between 1933 and 1945. These killings were part of political mass murder...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A young man is helplessly fascinated by an unnamed adversary-- whom he once had a chance to kill. As he watches the man rise to power in 1930s Germany, we follow the hero's desperate attempt to discover logic where none exists.
Written while Hans Keilson was in hiding during World War II, The Death of the Adversary is the self-portrait of a young man helplessly fascinated by an unnamed "adversary" whom he watches rise to power in 1930s Germany. It...
Author
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
1938, Hitler visits Italy. An expatri-ate Irish art historian is obliged to guide Mussolini and his guest round the galleries. Half fascinated, half repelled, he watches the tyrants, wrestling with the uneasy conviction that he ought to use the opportunity to 'do something' about them yet lacking the zeal that might trans-form misgivings into action. Thirty years later, his daughter comes across a compromising clip-ping showing her father with the...
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