1939 - 1945

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1939 - 1945

In deadly combat

University Press a German soldier's memoir of the Eastern Front
2000
A riveting and reflective account by one of the millions of anonymous soldiers who fought and died in that cruel terrain, this book conveys the brutality and horrors of the Eastern Front in detail never before available in English.

20th-century world history

1999
Provides of wealth of primary-source and general-reference information related. Includes more than 1,200 photographs, documents, maps, quotes, statistics, biographies, events, and organization profiles.

Attack on Pearl Harbor

the true story of the day America entered World War II
2002
Through vivid eye-witness accounts, this title re-creates the dramatic moments of the unforgettable day that America entered WW II.

The Italian refuge

rescue of Jews during the Holocaust
1989
Describes the active involvement of the individual Italians, the government and the military in saving the lives of many of the Jews in Italy, Yugoslavia, and the German-occupied south of France in 1942 and 1943.

All or nothing

the Axis and the Holocaust, 1941 - 1943
1991
Nazi Germany and Facist Italy were united in a "brutual friendship." Both had savage racial laws: both Hitler and Mussolini viciously denounced the 'Jewish menace'".

Bad times, good people

a Holocaust survivor recounts his life in Italy during World War II
1999
The neglected story of how the Italian people courageously expressed their basic humanity and goodness despite the Nazi opposiiton. Walter's youthful innocence died during the rioting of Kristallnacht.

War in Italy, 1943 - 1945

a brutal story
1996
A surprising and unprecedented history of the war in Italy from Mussolini's fall until the final victory. Chronicling an unbroken sequence of Nazi infamies, Lamb reveals how German troops massacred thousands of surrending Italians in the Aegean islands, deported Italian Jews to Auschwitz and slaughtered Italian hostages and POWs.

Everyday life in the Warsaw ghetto - 1941

a study unit for Junior High and High School students
1993
The core of this learning unit consists of photographs taken by German soldiers in the Warsaw ghetto These photographs (contained in the student workbook) capture a unique and little-known reality that evolved in the margin between life and death.

Double jeopardy

gender and the Holocaust
1998
A collection of essays examining the Holocaust from the perspective of gender.

We were there

Jewish liberators of the Nazi concentration camps
1994
A powerful story of the love and renewal that sprang up between the Jewish G.I. and many of the victims of the camps.

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