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p David Kenyon Webster s memoir is a clear-eyed emotionally charged chronicle of youth camaraderie and…
the chaos of war Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge Webster gives a first hand account of life in E Company 101st Airborne Division crafting a memoir that resonates with the immediacy of a gripping novel p From the beaches of Normandy to the blood-dimmed battlefields of Holland here are acts of courage and cowardice moments of irritating boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror and pitched urban warfare Offering a remarkable snapshot of what it was like to enter Germany in the last days of World War II Webster presents a vivid varied cast of young paratroopers from all walks of life and unforgettable glimpses of enemy soldiers and hapless civilians caught up in the melee p i Parachute Infantry i is at once harsh and moving boisterous and tragic and stands today as an unsurpassed chronicle of war--how men fight it survive it and remember it NOTE This edition does not include photos pI Was in Hell with Niemoeller
By Leo Stein. 2017
Found guilty of treason in 1937 Martin Niemoeller 1892-1984 a German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor…
spent the rest of World War II in Sachsenhausen Moabit and Dachau concentration camps In I Was in Hell with Niemoeller which was first published in 1942 Niemoeller s former cell-mate Leo Stein supplements his story of his vain effort to dissuade Hitler from his course and of the circumstances leading up to and following his arrest on Hitler s order It is a strong book both appalling and fascinating and of great value Everybody who reads it and I hope many thousands will do so must be filled with admiration for a true hero of faith and with abhorrence against his torturer who in fact is the torturer of all mankind Thomas Mann Pastor Niemoeller carries on in the great tradition and the modern world is indebted to Leo Stein who shared imprisonment with him for remembering so much To all who think that decent people can go their way in peace if Hitler runs the world I say read I Was in Hell with Niemoeller Fulton Oursler Editor Author Lecturer An unfolding story of tragedy and an incredible story of physical moral and spiritual intolerance and degradation under the Third Reich Every page is convincing A MUST book for YOU Daniel A Poling Editor of Christian HeraldUnderground to Palestine [First Edition]
By I. F. Stone. 2017
A STORY OF PERSONAL ADVENTURE…ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING OF OUR TIME…A TALE OF THE GREATEST MIGRATION IN THE HISTORY…
OF A WANDERING PEOPLE.“I can only record as a reporter what I saw and heard, traveling with the least fortunate but the bravest of my people,” says the author.But I. F. Stone is not an ordinary reporter. He has the sincerity and the art to tell what he saw convincingly, without embellishments, yet losing none of its dramatic intensity.Simple folk and scholars, the tough and the gentle, crowed these pages; and in the author’s vivid portrayal they become people you have known. Their stories—tragedies which have destroyed all but the lucky remnants, or comedies which lighten even the most unfortunate—take on in reading the reality of events you have actually seen.The author’s underground journey took him from France into Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Italy, and through the Mediterranean to Haifa. His account of that adventure is a gripping narrative, a record of historic value, and a story of dramatic force.In Polish Woods
By Joseph Opatoshu, Isaac Goldberg. 2017
In Polish Woods, which was first published in its English translation from its original Yiddish in 1938, is a historical…
novel describing the devolution of the Kotzker dynasty between the age of Napoleon and the Polish Revolt of 1863.Author Joseph Opatoshu reflects on the conflicting and even opposite tendencies in development of the Jewish ideology during this era, which would largely determine the future of the Jewish people: Hasidism, enlightenment, and assimilation.A thoroughly engaging read.Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler's Aces
By Lyuba Vinogradova. 2015
Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on…
16th October 1941 to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the world. What made the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th Heavy-bomber Regiment and the 588th Regiment of light night-bombers unique was their gender: the Soviet Union was creating the first all-female active combat units in modern history.Drawing on original interviews with surviving airwomen, Lyuba Vinogradova weaves together the untold stories of the female Soviet fighter pilots of the Second World War. From that first train journey to the last tragic disappearance, Vinogradova's panoramic account of these women's lives follows them from society balls to unmarked graves, from landmark victories to the horrors of Stalingrad. Battling not just fearsome Aces of the Luftwaffe but also patronising prejudice from their own leaders, women such as Lilya Litvyak and Ekaterina Budanova are brought to life by the diaries and recollections of those who knew them, and who watched them live, love, fight and die.The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi
By Johann Chapoutot. 2018
The scale and the depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and…
destroy with such ruthless ambition? Observers and historians have offered countless explanations since the 1930s. According to Johann Chapoutot, we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it themselves. We need a clearer view, in particular, of how they were steeped in and spread the idea that history gave them no choice: it was either kill or die. Chapoutot, one of France’s leading historians, spent years immersing himself in the texts and images that reflected and shaped the mental world of Nazi ideologues, and that the Nazis disseminated to the German public. The party had no official ur-text of ideology, values, and history. But a clear narrative emerges from the myriad works of intellectuals, apparatchiks, journalists, and movie-makers that Chapoutot explores. The story went like this: In the ancient world, the Nordic-German race lived in harmony with the laws of nature. But since Late Antiquity, corrupt foreign norms and values—Jewish values in particular—had alienated Germany from itself and from all that was natural. The time had come, under the Nazis, to return to the fundamental law of blood. Germany must fight, conquer, and procreate, or perish. History did not concern itself with right and wrong, only brute necessity. A remarkable work of scholarship and insight, The Law of Blood recreates the chilling ideas and outlook that would cost millions their lives.Judeofobia: Las causas del antisemitismo, su historia y su vigencia actual
By Gustavo Perednik. 2018
¿Cuáles son los orígenes del odio antijudío? ¿Cuáles fueron sus motivaciones históricas y cuáles sus mitos fundantes? ¿Cuáles las causas…
de su persistencia? El odio a los judíos, la judeofobia, es uno de los más antiguos y persistentes de la historia. Desde los escritos de Alejandría y la expulsión de España hasta el cantonismo ruso y el Holocausto, es un fenómeno que ha atravesado todas las épocas y se manifiesta de formas diferentes, ora sutiles, ora brutales, todavía en nuestros días. Tanto los medios y la esfera pública como los ámbitos más privados y cotidianos son arena en la que a cada momento se despliega una miríada de prejuicios. ¿Cuáles son las peculiaridades de la judeofobia que hacen que emerja una y otra vez, incluso en los rincones menos esperados? En este libro indispensable, Gustavo Perednik responde esta y otras preguntas al tiempo que explora a fondo los orígenes, las motivaciones y los mitos fundantes de la hostilidad antijudía. Porque contra todo pronóstico optimista, nuestro siglo XXI sigue demandando una mirada alerta que oponga racionalidad reflexiva a la sinrazón demonizadora.Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
By Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. 1997
This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction…
of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular. Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen takes us into the killing fields where Germans voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly, and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims. From mobile killing units, to the camps, to the death marches, Goldhagen shows how ordinary Germans, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterable evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion. "Hitler's Willing Executioner's is an original, indeed brilliant contribution to the. . . literature on the Holocaust."--New York Review of Books "The most important book ever published about the Holocaust. . . Eloquently written, meticulously documented, impassioned. . . A model of moral and scholarly integrity."--Philadelphia InquirerChild Survivors of the Holocaust: The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience
By Beth B Cohen. 2018
The majority of European Jewish children alive in 1939 were murdered during the Holocaust. Of 1.5 million children, only an…
estimated 150,000 survived. In the aftermath of the Shoah, efforts by American Jews brought several thousand of these child survivors to the United States. In Child Survivors of the Holocaust, historian Beth B. Cohen weaves together survivor testimonies and archival documents to bring their story to light. She reveals that even as child survivors were resettled and “saved,” they struggled to adapt to new lives as members of adoptive families, previously unknown American Jewish kin networks, or their own survivor relatives. Nonetheless, the youngsters moved ahead. As Cohen demonstrates, the experiences both during and after the war shadowed their lives and relationships through adulthood, yet an identity as “survivors” eluded them for decades. Now, as the last living link to the Holocaust, the voices of Child Survivors are finally being heard.Le réseau Shelburne
By Jean-Louis Morgan, Alain Stanké. 2017
Rares sont les témoignages des étrangers de l'ombre qui, au prix des mêmes périls que les résistants français, ont aidé…
ces derniers à s'approvisionner en armes, en argent et en faux papiers. Ces étrangers, dont nombre de Canadiens francophones, relevaient du SOE et du MI9. Frôlant cent fois la mort, ils ont prêté main forte aux maquis bretons lors d'actes de sabotage, ont assuré les communications avec les Alliés et exfiltré, principalement au cours de l'année 1944, quelque 135 aviateurs dont les appareils étaient tombés en territoire occupé. L'un de ces réseaux était animé par le sous-officier québécois Lucien Dumais, assisté de son compatriote Raymond Labrosse. Son nom ? Le réseau Shelburne. L'action de ces hommes et de ces femmes aura permis d'évacuer, en tout, 307 agents et soldats alliés. Les exploits peu croyables de ces héros - parmi lesquels David Birkin, père de Jane, lieutenant de canonnière - dormaient dans les archives des services secrets ou dans la mémoire des survivants. Les témoignages recueillis dans ce livre révèlent enfin au grand jour cet épisode crucial de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. 2017.On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of…
some distinction—a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He was also a dedicated anti-Semite, an acerbic opponent of French democracy, and editor in chief of the fascist weekly Je Suis Partout, in whose pages he regularly printed wartime denunciations of Jews and resistance activists. Was Brasillach in fact guilty of treason? Was he condemned for his denunciations of the resistance, or singled out as a suspected homosexual? Was it right that he was executed when others, who were directly responsible for the murder of thousands, were set free? Kaplan's meticulous reconstruction of Brasillach's life and trial skirts none of these ethical subtleties: a detective story, a cautionary tale, and a meditation on the disturbing workings of justice and memory, The Collaborator will stand as the definitive account of Brasillach's crime and punishment. A National Book Award Finalist A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "A well-researched and vivid account."—John Weightman, New York Review of Books "A gripping reconstruction of [Brasillach's] trial."—The New Yorker "Readers of this disturbing book will want to find moral touchstones of their own. They're going to need them. This is one of the few works on Nazism that forces us to experience how complex the situation really was, and answers won't come easily."—Daniel Blue, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "The Collaborator is one of the best-written, most absorbing pieces of literary history in years."—David A. Bell, New York Times Book Review "Alice Kaplan's clear-headed study of the case of Robert Brasillach in France has a good deal of current-day relevance. . . . Kaplan's fine book . . . shows that the passage of time illuminates different understandings, and she leaves it to us to reflect on which understanding is better."—Richard Bernstein, The New York TimesOn April 23, 1943, the seventy-man crew of the USS Grenadier scrambled to save their submarine—and themselves—after a Japanese aerial…
torpedo sent it crashing to the ocean floor. Miraculously, the men were able to bring the sub back to the surface, only to be captured by the Japanese.No Ordinary Joes tells the harrowing story of four of the Grenadier’s crew: Bob Palmer of Medford, Oregon; Chuck Vervalin of Dundee, New York; Tim McCoy of Dallas, Texas; and Gordy Cox of Yakima, Washington. All were enlistees from families that struggled through the Great Depression. The lure of service and duty to country were not their primary motivations—they were more compelled by the promise of a job that provided “three hots and a cot” and a steady paycheck. On the day they were captured, all four were still teenagers.Together, the men faced unimaginable brutality at the hands of their captors in a prisoner of war camp. With no training in how to respond in the face of relentless interrogations and with less than a cup of rice per day for sustenance, each man created his own strategy for survival. When the liberation finally came, all four anticipated a triumphant homecoming to waiting families, loved ones, and wives, but instead were forced to find a new kind of strength as they struggled to resume their lives in a world that had given them up for dead, and with the aftershocks of an experience that haunted and colored the rest of their days. Author Larry Colton brings the lives of these four “ordinary” heroes into brilliant focus. Theirs is a story of tragedy and courage, romance and war, loss and endurance, failure and redemption. With a scope both panoramic and disarmingly intimate, No Ordinary Joes is a powerful look at the atrocities of war, the reality of its aftermath, and the restorative power of love.From the Hardcover edition.Herbie and Friends: Cartoons In Wartime
By Barry D. Rowland. 1990
Clearly the favourite character of Canada’s overseas troops during World War II, "Herbie" had a penchant for getting into some…
of the most bizarre predicaments imaginable. With feet that generally led to trouble and a nose like a disillusioned banana, Herbie provided Canadian soldiers with a daily ration of laughter at a time when humour was often at a premium. No figure before or since boosted so effectively the spirit of Canadians overseas.As J.D. MacFarlane, Editor of The Maple Leaf, stated so aptly: "War can be funny as hell. Things happen to soldiers that shoudn’t happen to a human – crazy situations that add touches of humour to an otherwise grim business … Herbie helped to win the war with laughs."The Knight of the Immaculate: Father Maximilian Kolbe
By Fr. Jeremiah J. Smith. 2016
Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The Holocaust St. Maximilian Kolbe is famous as the saint of Auschwitz who…
volunteered to die of starvation and thirst in place of another prisoner. But his heroic death in 1941 in the worst of the Nazi concentration camps was only the culmination of an amazing life--for St. Maximilian was fired by the supernatural ideal of conquering for Christ through Mary all souls in the entire world--to the end of time!Full of interesting stories, this little book describes his mischievous boyhood, his youthful prophetic vision of two crowns, his dream of martyrdom, his use of modern printing technology to further Our Lady's work, his agreement with St. Therese the Little Flower, his "Cities of the Immaculata" (the one in Poland grew from 19 members to 762 and was the largest religious community in the world), his knowledge that he was fighting Satan, and his prison abuse for being a Catholic priest.Desperate Mission: Joel Brand’s Story
By Constantine Fitzgibbon, Alex Weissberg. 2017
This book is the story of the former Hungarian Zionist leader, Joel Brand, as told to Alex Weissberg, author of…
The Accused, which told of his experiences as a prisoner of the Soviet secret police.Most of Desperate Mission: Joel Brand’s Story (1958) is devoted to an account of how Brand came to be in a position to negotiate with the Nazis for the lives of a million human beings and what he did to carry out his incredible mission.Written with all the passion of a man who was entrusted with an almost hopeless mission and had to sit by impotently watching the horrible consequences of its failure, Brand believed that goods and promises which would not have prolonged the fighting ability of the Wehrmacht by a single day might have prevented the slaughter of the 400,000 Jews from Hungary and the untold number from other countries who were put to death in the last year of Hitler’s regime.I Survived Hitler’s Hell
By Prof. A. P. Gwiazdowski. 2017
The “Cutty Sark”: The Last of the Famous Clippers [Combined Edition of Two Volumes]
By C. Nepean Longridge. 2017
Originally published in two volumes in 1933, this amalgamated edition provides an in-depth description of the hull, deck fittings, and…
rigging of this famous ship, together with a detailed account of the building of a scale model, which was added to the collection at the Science Museum in South Kensington, London, England.The first volume gives an account of the ship itself, with plans and full instructions for building the hull, bulwarks, and deck fittings of a scale model.The second volume describes the masts, spars, and rigging of a scale model, and including the builder’s specification for the construction of the original ship.Fully illustrated throughout.The true story of a voyage to the South Pacific in search of sperm whales.The Charles W. Morgan was the…
last surviving whaler from the fleet sailing out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. She was retired in 1921, after 80 years of active service.In this book, first published in 1948, Nelson Cole Haley recaptures the high drama of the whale hunt, the character of his shipmates, and their adventures ashore on the exotic islands of the South Pacific.“This classic true story of a voyage on the CHARLES W. MORGAN is both a wonderful read and an excellent source of information about American whaling in the 19th century.”—Nathaniel Philbrick, author of IN THE HEART OF THE SEAIn The Secret Place: A Story Of The Dutch Underground
By Peter Van Woerden. 2017
Peter Van Woerden, Corrie Ten Boom’s nephew, began his career in the Dutch underground in 1942. He was the organist…
of the Reformed Church in Velsen and was at his regular post on the bench one Lord’s Day morning as he recounts:“On this particular Sunday, as I sat and mused, I suddenly realized that exactly two years before, on the 10th of May, the Nazi invasion of Holland had begun. As I looked over the congregation I decided that something should be done, something on this Sunday morning to demonstrate that we still were real Dutchmen at heart, something to express our faith and hope in a day of victory when we would again be a free people. The sermon over, I pulled extra stops out on the organ, then firmly and distinctly played the first chords of the Wilhelmus, the national anthem of the Netherlands. There was a rustling downstairs. People stood to their feet. One voice began to sing, then another, and others; and soon, like a mighty sea, the glorious old hymn rolled forth from the overflowing hearts of hundreds of Hollanders as tears streamed down their faces. For that one moment we were a free people in the midst of a dark world full of oppression and persecution.”That gesture landed Peter in prison where, in turn, he experienced, for the first time in his life, a deep hunger for God. After years in the church he met Christ and was truly converted. And thus an adventure in which Peter evaded the Nazis many months until the night he went to grandfather and Aunt Corrie.Night and Hope (Quartet Encounters)
By George Theiner, Arnost Lustig. 1989
First published in 1962, Night and Hope is a collection of interrelated short stories by a young Czech writer who…
was a boy in the Terezín concentration camp near Prague during the war. They have already been received with great acclaim abroad and they now make their appearance for the first time in this country. They reveal what it was like to live in a sealed town which was in fact a reception station for the gas chambers of Auschwitz. A guard thrashes a poor old woman on the counter of her little shop and each are curiously resigned to their roles of giving and receiving degradation. Little boys play in the streets and are quietly regretful that they won’t grow up and wear fine clothes. A guard’s wife and her coffee-party friends stroll round the ghetto to collect anything that catches their eye—a wedding-ring, pathetic clothes....Arnošt Lustig’s stories are a new and vivid focus on this fearful tragedy as it affected the private individual. They are written with restraint yet nothing is glossed, and they take their place amongst the very best writing to have come out of the shambles of Hitler’s ‘Jewish Question’.“Arnošt Lustig has succeeded in putting truth into a poem. Nothing in art could mean more than that. His style is sober and modern, his sentence carries all attributes of that which connects prose with poetry and makes it obvious how slight and unperceivable the borderlines between genres.”—L. Askenazy, Literarni Noviny (Prague).“Each tale has a genuine unity of its own and is a small work of art in its own right. No one reading them could ever feel that they were only stories.”—The Times Literary Supplement (London).“No writer in Europe, in the East or in the West, has expressed as much truth about the time of the holocaust as Arnošt Lustig.”—Maariv (Tel Aviv).“Outstanding stories.”—The Bookman, London