world war ii

An account of one of the defining moments of twentieth-century history : the siege of Leningrad. It began in September of 1941 when Nazi German forces severed the last outside connection to the city. The siege lasted 872 days, during which the dying population suffered horrors beyond the power of description. The author interviewed dozens of survivors to create a deeply personal and universal story of survival in extreme circumstances.

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After one of the most notorious sneak attacks in military history, join national Geographic for an exploration of the still unsolved mysteries and startling true stories behind the "day of infamy" that plunged the United States into World War II!.

Hanna Reitsch became the first female Luftwaffe test pilot. She was an ardent Nazi and prepared to die for the cause. She became Hitler's personal heroine. After her capture she complained bitterly about not being able to die with Hitler, but went on to have a celebrated flying career post-war. She died at the age of 67, creating a new mystery---did she kill herself using the cyanide pill Hilter had given her thirty years earlier?.

The naked body of an old man floats in a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. In one week it will be Adolf Hitler's 75th birthday. A terrible conspiracy is starting to unravel...what if Hitler had actually won World War II? What if the body that was found after the war did not belong to Hitler?.

A Holocaust survival story that combines hopeful melancholy with gentle humor. Following a heartbreaking struggle to survive as a Jewish child in Germany, Felix faces perhaps his greatest challenge - to find hope when he's lost almost everything. As Europe goes through the final agonizing stages of the war, Felix struggles to reconcile hatred and healing. He's helped by a new friend, but if he should lose her as well.... Book #4 in the Once series: Once, Then, Now, and After.

In January 1941, William Sharpe, age thirteen, accompanies his father on a diplomatic mission to Vichy, France, capital of a satellite state formed after the fall of France to the German blitzkrieg in 1940. He attends a French school and makes some French friends. Among them is Renee, a refugee girl with a mysterious past. When the Germans occupy Vichy in 1941, he flees with his friends to the Resistance, where they fight against the brutal rule of French fascists and the German SS. When American troops land in southern France in August 1944, he joins the U.S. Third Infantry Division and participates in the battles experienced by the author. The novel has a touch of romance and a bittersweet ending.

It is 1939 when five-year-old Marlies Adams travels with her family on a transatlantic journey from America to Germany so that her mother can visit her terminally ill father. As the SS Bremen leaves New York Harbor with Marlies and her family as passengers, Marlies has no idea that what is intended to be a three-month stay will turn into a seven-year struggle to stay alive in a living hell.

This book tells the story of America at war during World War II. Packed with facts, photographs, illustrations, and maps, it vividly brings this key conflict from world history to life. Discover the background to the war in Europe. Then follow the unfolding events from Pearl Harbor, to D-Day, the war in the Pacific, and the final Allied victory.