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Indianapolis: the true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history and the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man
Par Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic. 2018
Based on years of original research and new reporting, two acclaimed authors deliver the riveting and emotionally wrenching full story…
of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II--and the fifty-year fight to exonerate the captain after a wrongful court martial. 2018.Infamy: the shocking story of the Japanese American internment in World War II
Par Richard Reeves. 2015
Examines the key causes and dire consequences of the Japanese-American internment in relocation camps during WWII, concentrating on a shortsighted…
military strategy and anti-Japanese sentiment following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. 2015.In the name of humanity
Par Max Wallace. 2017
On November 26, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz heard a deafening explosion. Emerging from their barracks, they witnessed the crematoria--part of…
the largest killing machine in human history--come crashing down. Most assumed they had fallen victim to inmate sabotage and thousands gave a silent cheer. However, the Final Solution's most efficient murder apparatus had been felled by SS chief Heinrich Himmler--an edict that has puzzled historians for more than six decades. Wallace draws on a cache of recently declassified documents and an account from the only living eyewitness to unravel the mystery. He reveals an incredible story involving the secret negotiations of an unlikely trio--a former fascist President of Switzerland, a courageous Orthodox Jewish woman, and Himmler himself--to end the Holocaust, aided by clandestine Swedish and American intelligence efforts. 2017.On 30th July 1945 the USS 'Indianapolis' was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. Of a crew…
of 1196 men an estimated 300 were killed upon impact; nearly 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained, undetected by the Navy, for nearly five days. Battered by a savage sea, they struggled to stay alive, fighting off sharks, hypothermia and dementia. This text investigates the stories of three survivors; the captain, the ship's doctor and a young marine. 2001.In Hitler's Germany: daily life in the Third Reich
Par Bernt Engelmann. 1986
The author interweaves his memories and interviews with those of war survivors. Some of the Germans who speak here are…
completely unrepentant, still adore Hitler, and cannot understand why his reputation is ruined. 1986. Uniform title: Im Gleichschritt marsch.Black asserts that Nazi Germany used IBM punch-card technology to improve the efficiency of its persecutions during World War II…
and that IBM actively enabled the Holocaust and profited financially from collaboration with the Third Reich. Black also recounts how IBM aided the Allies, especially in code-breaking techniques. Bestseller. Winner of the 2003 CNIB Torgi Award. 2001.Holding Juno: Canada's heroic defence of the D-Day beaches, June 7-12, 1944
Par Mark Zuehlke. 2005
D-Day ended with the Canadians six miles inland - the deepest penetration achieved by Allied forces that day - but…
every soldier knew the worst was yet to come. The Germans began probing the Canadian lines early in the morning of June 7 and shortly after dawn counter attacked in force. The ensuing six days of battle was to prove bloodier than D-Day itself, as the Canadians fought to save the vulnerable beachheads they had won. Sequel to "Juno Beach Canada's D-Day victory, June 6, 1944". c2005.Because we are Canadians: a battlefield memoir
Par Charles D Kipp, Lynda Sykes. 2003
Sergeant Charles D. Kipp was a Canadian soldier in the Second World War, fighting in the months following D-Day. Countless…
hardships were endured and when the war ended, Kipp had a lifetime of aftermath to deal with, both physically and mentally. Closure came for him decades later when he revisited a battlefield. Descriptions of violence. 2003.D-Day: Juno Beach, Canada's 24 hours of destiny
Par Lance Goddard. 2004
Many have called it the most important event of the twentieth century - and Canada played a key role. When…
Canadian troops landed at Juno Beach, they faced some of the fiercest opposition of the attack, yet they managed to advance further inland than all the other Allied forces. An hour-by-hour chronicle of D-Day, told through the words of the men themselves. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.As the Red Army closes in on the Third Reich, a German colonel tells American intelligence about a camp soon…
to be overrun by the Soviets that holds a thousand prize horses Hitler stole to create "a master breed." They're worth millions, and the starving Red Army will kill them for rations. General Patton, whose love of horses was legendary, decides to help the Germans save the majestic creatures. 2018.On April 4, 1945, US Army units from the Eighty-Ninth Infantry Division and the Fourth Armored Division seized Ohrdruf, the…
first of many Nazi concentration camps to be liberated. Drawing on archival sources and thousands of firsthand accounts, historian John C. McManus sheds new light on this often-overlooked aspect of the Holocaust, focusing on the experiences of the soldiers and their determination to bear witness to this horrific history. 2018.As good as dead: the true WWII story of eleven American POWs who escaped from Palawan Island
Par Stephen L Moore. 2016
In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within reach.…
But for the last 150 American prisoners of war still held on the island of Palawan, there would be no salvation. As soldiers, sailors and Marines were herded into shallow air raid shelters, Japanese soldiers doused them with gasoline and set them on fire. By the next morning, only eleven men were left alive-but their desperate journey to freedom had just begun. 2016.Dawn of infamy: a sunken ship, a vanished crew, and the final mystery of Pearl Harbor
Par Stephen Harding. 2016
Harding explores the little-known episode of a U.S. cargo ship that mysteriously vanished, along with her crew, hours before the…
attack on Pearl Harbor, marking the start of a global conflict and sparking one of the most enduring nautical mysteries of the war. 2016.Deadly sky: the American combat airman in World War II
Par John C McManus. 2016
This insightful chronicle takes readers inside the experiences of America's fighter pilots and bomber crews, an incredible assortment of men…
who, in nearly four years of warfare all over the globe, suffered over 120,000 casualties with over 40,000 killed. 2016.Commander in chief: FDR's battle with Churchill, 1943
Par Nigel Hamilton. 2016
Describes the yearlong battle between Roosevelt and Churchill during World War II, to decide whether the Allies should carry out…
the planned invasion of Normandy, or take on disastrous fighting in Italy. 2016.Beyond the call: the true story of one World War II pilot's covert mission to rescue POWs on the eastern front
Par Lee Trimble, Jeremy Dronfield. 2015
Destination Casablanca: exile, espionage, and the battle for North Africa in World War II
Par Meredith Hindley. 2017
In the summer of 1940, following France's surrender to Germany, Casablanca was transformed from an exotic travel destination to a…
key military target. It soon became rife with rogue soldiers, Jewish refugees, celebrities, and Nazi agents. In 1942, Americans and British arrived, and the port soon saw power grabs, plot twists, and diplomatic intrigue. 'Destination Casablanca' is the riveting and untold history of this glamorous and beloved city, memorialized in the classic film, at the heart of World War II. 2017.The story of James Howard "Billy" Williams, whose uncanny rapport with elephants in 1920's Burma transformed him from a carefree…
young man into the charismatic World War II hero known as Elephant Bill. 2014.I am a star: child of the Holocaust
Par Inge Auerbacher. 1999
Five days in London: May 1940
Par John Lukacs. 2000
The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940 altered the course of the history of this century, as the…
members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus. 2000.