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  • Defiance

    The Bielski Partisans

    by Nechama Tec ...
    The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust years is one of helpless victims under a death sentence, unable to fight consignment to the ghettos, to the camps, and to the gas chambers. In fact, many Jews struggled alone or with others against the terrors of the Third Reich, risking their lives against overwhelming odds for the slimmest chance of survival, or a mere glimpse of freedom ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror

    Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror

    by Nechama Tec ...
    Nechama Tec's Defiance, an account of a Jewish partisan unit that fought the Nazis in the Polish forests during World War II, was turned into a major feature film. Yet despite the attention this film brought to the topic of Jewish resistance, Tec, who speaks widely about the Holocaust and the experience of Jews in wartime Poland, still ran into the same question again and again: Why didn't Jews ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Resistance

    Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror

    by Nechama Tec ...
    Nechama Tec's Defiance, an account of a Jewish partisan unit that fought the Nazis in the Polish forests during World War II, was turned into a major feature film. Yet despite the attention this film brought to the topic of Jewish resistance, Tec, who speaks widely about the Holocaust and the experience of Jews in wartime Poland, still ran into the same question again and again: Why didn't Jews ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Origins of Nazi Genocide

    From Euthanasia to the Final Solution

    Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, Henry Friedlander#### explores in chilling detail how the Nazi program of secretly exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the systematic destruction of Jews and Gypsies. He describes how the so-called euthanasia of the handicapped provided a practical model for the later mass murder, thereby initiating the Holocaust.The Nazi ... Read more

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  • Believe and Destroy

    Intellectuals in the SS War Machine

    There were eighty of them. They were young, clever and cultivated; they were barely in their thirties when Adolf Hitler came to power. Their university studies in law, economics, linguistics, philosophy and history marked them out for brilliant careers. They chose to join the repressive bodies of the Third Reich, especially the Security Service (SD) and the Nazi Party’s elite protection unit, the ... Read more

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  • Nazi Princess

    Hitler, Lord Rothermere and Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe

    Born to a middle-class Viennese family and of partly Jewish descent, after marriage to (and divorce from) a German prince Stephanie von Hohenlohe became a close confidante of Hitler, Göring, Himmler (who declared her an 'honorary Aryan') and von Ribbentrop. After arriving in London in 1932, she moved in the most exclusive circles, arranging the visits of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Lord ... Read more

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  • Weimar

    From Enlightenment to the Present

    Historian Michael H. Kater chronicles the rise and fall of one of Germany’s most iconic cities in this fascinating and surprisingly provocative history of Weimar. Weimar was a center of the arts during the Enlightenment and hence the cradle of German culture in modern times. Goethe and Schiller made their reputations here, as did Franz Liszt and the young Richard Strauss. In the early twentieth ... Read more

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  • Spirit of Resistance

    The Life of SOE Agent Harry Peulevé, DSO MC

    by Nigel Perrin ...
    A biography of a British World War II secret agent who escaped the Buchenwald concentration camp.One of the most determined and courageous secret agents of the Second World War, Harry Peulevé joined the BEF in 1940 before volunteering for F Section of the Special Operations Executive. On his first mission to occupied France to set up the SCIENTIST circuit, he broke his leg on landing and, after ... Read more

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  • Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

    by Ian Kershaw ...
    This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period’s most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw’s research on the Holocaust for the first time. The writings are arranged in three sections-Hitler and the Final Solution, popular opinion and the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • They Dared Return

    The True Story of Jewish Spies Behind the Lines in Nazi Germany

    "A true-life companion to Quentin Tarantino's. . . . WWII movie Inglorious Basterds . . . Quick-paced and immediate, with many satisfying moments." — Publishers WeeklyAt the height of World War II, with the Third Reich's final solution in full operation, a small group of Jews who had barely escaped the Nazis did the unthinkable: They went back. Spies now, these men took on a dangerous mission be ... Read more

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  • The White Rose

    Munich 1942-1943

    by Inge Scholl ...
    Translated by Arthur R Schultz ...
    A powerful account of the resistance group made up of German students who opposed Nazism, written by the sister of two members who were killed.The White Rose tells the story of Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, who in 1942 led a small underground organization of German students and professors to oppose the atrocities committed by Hitler and the Nazi Party. They named their group the White Rose, and ... Read more

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  • Brave Genius

    A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize

    The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius.In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quietly pursuing ordinary, separate lives in Paris. After the German invasion and occupation of ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $9.99 USD