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The drowned and the saved
Par Primo Levi. 1988
Primo Levi spent over a year in the Auschwitz concentration camp. This book is an attempt to make some sense…
of his experiences, and to try to understand how a nation could set up a system to butcher millions of people. Eventually he gave up the struggle to come to terms with it and committed suicide in 1987. 1988.The curious cage: a Shanghai journal, 1941-1945
Par Peggy Abkhazi, S. W Jackman. 1981
While in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, the British author kept a journal which records the routines…
of camp life and the variety of ways prisoners coped with their new existence. 1981.The conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945
Par Michael R Beschloss. 2002
Historian relates the political dilemmas facing the Allies during World War II, including the future of conquered Germany. American Secretary…
of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. urged harsh punitive measures in retaliation for Nazi crimes against European Jews, while others sought rehabilitation and the establishment of democracy to prevent further German aggression. Bestseller. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2007, c2002.The boys who challenged Hitler: Knud Pederson and the Churchill Club
Par Phillip M Hoose. 2015
At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old…
Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain: the boys' exploits and eventual imprisonment helped spark a full-blown Danish resistance. Junior High readers and older. 2015.The castaway's war: one man's battle against Imperial Japan
Par Stephen Harding. 2016
In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The torpedo…
broke the destroyer's back, flooded her engine room, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to rescue most of Strong's surviving crewmen, scores were submerged in the ocean as the shattered warship sank beneath the waves - and a young officer's harrowing story of survival began. Tells the unique tale of Navy Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller's fight for survival against both a hostile environment and an implacable human enemy. 2016.The bombing war: Europe 1939-1945
Par R. J Overy. 2013
The ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard…
Overy. The use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues to challenge the idea that the Allies specifically fought a 'moral' war. For Britain, bombing became perhaps its principal contribution to the fighting as, night after night, exceptionally brave men flew over occupied Europe destroying its cities. "The Bombing War" is the first book to examine not just the most well-known parts of the campaign, but the significance of bombing on many other fronts - the German use of bombers on the Eastern Front for example (as well as much newly discovered material on the more familiar 'Blitz' on Britain), or the Allied campaigns against Italian cities. 2013.The boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion
Par Douglas Brinkley, Ronald Reagan. 2005
The author contends that when President Reagan honoured the fortieth anniversary of D-Day - the Normandy invasion of Europe -…
on June 6, 1984, he energized the nation and inspired a "New Patriotism." Recalls the way army Rangers scaled the French cliffs to defeat the Nazis and discusses Reagan's American legacy. 2005.The Black Watch: a concise history (Concise History Ser.)
Par Trevor Royle. 2006
The Black Watch was formed at Aberfeldy in Perthshire in the early eighteenth century as an independent security force, or…
'watch', to guard the approaches to the lawless areas of the Scottish Highlands. Instantly recognisable due to the famous red hackle cap badge and the traditional dark blue and green government tartan kilt from which it got its name, The Black Watch was renowned as one of the great fighting regiments of the British Army and served with distinction in all major conflicts from the War of Austrian Succession onwards. 2006.The Black Sheep: the definitive account of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 in World War II
Par Bruce Gamble. 1998
Gamble recounts actual events behind the legends of World War II fighters in marine squadron 214. Describes exaggerations among the…
images portrayed in a popular television series and even in "Pappy" Boyington's autobiography. Presents a roster of pilots and a chronology of VMF-214 operations. c1998.The big break: the greatest American WWII POW escape story never told
Par Stephen Dando-Collins. 2017
Schubin, Poland, January, 1945. With the Red Army advancing closer every day, POW Camp commandant Colonel Fritz Schneider received orders…
from Berlin to march his American prisoners west. Game on! Over the next few days, 250 US Army officers would succeed in escaping east to link up with the Russians--although they would prove almost as dangerous as the Nazis--only to be ordered once they arrived back in the United States not to talk about their adventures. Within months, General Patton would launch a bloody bid to rescue the remaining Schubin Americans. This previously untold story follows POWs including General Eisenhower's personal aide, General Patton's son-in-law, and Ernest Hemingway's eldest son as they struggled to be free. 2017.The battle for Hell's Island: how a small band of carrier dive-bombers helped save Guadalcanal
Par Stephen L Moore. 2015
Moore reveals how command of the World War II South Pacific, and the outcome of the Pacific War, depended on…
control of a single dirt airstrip--and the small group of battle-weary aviators sent to protect it with their lives. 2015.The Atlantic campaign: World War II's great struggle at sea
Par Dan Van der Vat. 1988
The battle between Germany and the Allies for control of the Atlantic sea lanes was one that could have decided…
the outcome of the Second World War. Here the strategies of both sides and the maneuvers taken by them to ensure success both on land and on sea, are detailed.Ten green bottles: the true story of one family's journey from war-torn Austria to the ghettos of Shanghai
Par Vivian Jeanette Kaplan. 2002
For a brief period between 1938 and 1941, roughly 20,000 Jews found refuge from the Nazis in the one place…
not requiring visas, police certificates or proofs of financial independence: Shanghai. In 1939, the author's family made a month-long, 7,000-mile journey to Shanghai, struggling with heat, disease, poverty, and fear. With the war's end came the shock of learning what became of family and friends left behind in Europe. Descriptions of violence. 2002.Provides a soldiers-eye-view account of Canada's bloody liberation of western Holland during the Second World War. Readers are there as…
soldiers fight in the muddy quagmire, enduring a battle that lasted three weeks and in which 6,000 soldiers perished. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2007.The alchemy of survival: one woman's journey (Radcliffe biography series)
Par John E Mack, Rita S Rogers. 1988
Internationally known child psychologist Rita Rogers grew up in Romania, the daughter of a prominent Jewish family. Her idyllic childhood…
came to an abrupt end with the arrival of Nazi troops. 1988.Tell no one who you are: the hidden childhood of Régine Miller
Par Walter Buchignani. 1994
The story of Régine Miller, who, as a young Jewish girl during World War II, was hidden by Belgium's underground…
movement and was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. Grades 5-8. c1994.Testaments of honour: personal histories from Canada's war veterans
Par Blake Heathcote. 2002
Veterans of World War II detail their war years to remember and honour lost comrades, and to understand themselves and…
be understood by others. These stories have never been publicly released. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.Tank men: the human story of tanks at war
Par Robert J Kershaw. 2009
Ex-soldier and military historian Robert Kershaw brings to life the grime, the grease and the fury of a tank battle…
through the voices of ordinary men and women who lived and fought in those fearsome machines. This text draws on newly researched personal testimony from the crucial battles of the First and Second World Wars. 2009.Sun in winter: a Toronto wartime journal, 1942 to 1945
Par Gunda Lambton. 2003
In 1942 Gunda Lambton was a "war guest," a single mother sent from England to Toronto to avoid the war.…
While insanity raged throughout Europe she struggled to keep herself and her two small children going in a strange new home. While many people then were engaged in dramatic, heroic war work, her diary is a tribute to the quiet areas of endurance and pleasures of discovery that also distinguished those years. 2003.Survival in Auschwitz: the Nazi assault on humanity
Par Primo Levi. 1996
In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race" was arrested by Italian fascists and deported…
from his native Turin to Auschwitz. This is his account of his ten months in the German death camp, of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Included is a conversation between Philip Roth and Primo Levi never before published in book form. Descriptions of violence. 1996. Uniform title: Se questo è un uomo.