Rome - City in Terror: The Nazi Occupation 1943-44, Paperback - Victor Failmezger

From the street fighting that heralded the German occupation to the Gestapo repression that followed, this is the gripping story of the German occu...

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Although a novel, this story is historically accurate and tells in vivid detail what life was like in Berlin during the RAF's bombing campaign agai...

Drawing on more than a decade's worth of historical, forensic and archaeological research, this book presents the first detailed investigation of t...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Chris BucholtzNumber of pages: 80Collection: DogfightPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 185 x 247 x 8...

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Drawing upon personal testimonies from veterans, official reports, and never-before published photographs, this superbly detailed title explores th...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Michael John ClaringbouldNumber of pages: 80Collection: DuelPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 185 x ...

As the war began to swing in the favor of the Allies, it became clear that no final defeat of the Third Reich would be possible until the armored m...

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A comparative analysis of the 'Jewish Councils' in Western Europe during World War Two. Based on a wide range of documentation, Laurien Vastenhout ...

Victory at Guadalcanal for the Allies in February 1943 left them a vital foothold in the Solomon Islands chain, and was the first step in an attemp...

What was it like to be a prisoner of the Nazis in Britain during the Second World War? The first systematic study of the sources relating to prison...

DescriptionThis illustrated study explores, in detail, the controversial Battle of Berlin -- RAF Bomber Command's costly, brutal attempt to prove t...

Survivors tells the story of life in Nazi occupied Warsaw, a city that was ruthlessly and brutally targeted by Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1944. Jadw...

In 1942, the massive Japanese naval base and airfield at Rabaul was a fortress standing in the Allies' path to Tokyo. It was impossible to seize Ra...

Masquerading as a rear guard against Soviet invaders, NATO's covert forces warped into psychological and physical terrorism. These were the 'years ...

An Ostiense neighborhood is known poetically as the village in the city of Rome.Founded in the late 1920s, Garbatella was planned using methods der...

The true and moving holocaust story of Jewish schoolgirl Alie Lopes Dias and the fate of her schoolfriends in Amsterdam. Only six of the 19 survive...

Although a novel, this story is historically accurate and tells in vivid detail what life was like in Berlin during the RAF's bombing campaign agai...

Reducere. On March 24, 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before. Portelli has cr...

Reducere. "This story has haunted me since I was a child, " begins Anne Sinclair in a personal journey to find answers about her own life and about her grand...

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A warm and affectionate portrait of a city and a people under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestsell...

Reducere. On a fateful day in May 1941, in Nazi-occupied Strasbourg, seventeen-year- old Pierre Seel was summoned by the Gestapo. This was the beginning of h...

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Reducere. In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwe...

Reducere. In September 1943, the German army marched into Rome, beginning an occupation that would last nine months until Allied forces liberated the ancient...

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A warm and affectionate portrait of a city and a people under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestsell...

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The true and moving holocaust story of Jewish schoolgirl Alie Lopes Dias and the fate of her schoolfriends in Amsterdam. Only six of the 19 survive...

Reducere. The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight da...

Reducere. DescriptionCome to Rome for a day. Watch the sun rise over the Roman Forum, and set from the gardens of Villa Borghese. After taking readers throug...

A comprehensive account of the most controversial Allied bombing offensive of WW2. Written by the foremost military/aviation historian. Superbly re...

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In this portrait of life in Ancient Rome, the author begins by painting a backcloth on which the social, political, cultural and religious aspects ...

DescriptionPrague, 1940-1942. The Nazi-occupied city is locked in a reign of terror under Reinhard Heydrich. The Jewish community experience increa...

Despite the fact that the majority of the inhabitants of the Roman Empire lived an agricultural existence and thus resided outside of urban centers...

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Centring on the reign of the emperor Augustus, volume four is pivotal to the series, tracing of the changing shape of the entity that was ancient R...

Christmas 1942 saw the SS City of Flint in New York with other freighters loading for North Africa. Allied codes had been cracked and the convoy wa...

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Military historian Victor Brooks argues that the year 1943 marked a significant shift in the World War II balance of power from the Axis to Allied ...

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DescriptionRome, the Eternal City - birthplace of western civilisation and soul of the ancient world - has a history that stretches back two thousa...

Reducere. This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many lay...