Nazis on the potomac

Nazis on the Potomac

The first full account of the crucial work done at Fort Hunt, Virginia during World War II, where the highest-level German prisoners were interrogated

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Nazis on the Potomac

The first full account of the crucial work done at Fort Hunt, Virginia during World War II, where the highest-level German prisoners were interrogated

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Nazis on the Nile

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Building the Nation

Heather Selma Gregg argues that the U.S.-led efforts to “nation build” in both Iraq and Afghanistan failed to focus on the population and build nati

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Nazis In The Metro

From France’s leading political crime writer comes a novel that delves into the country’s radical political movements on both the left and the right, in the wake of a brutal attack. When André Sloga, an apparently washed-up novelist with a history of baiting the system, is assaulted and left for dead in the basement of his apartment building, the freelance private eye Gab...

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Mysteries of Haditha

A journalist embedded with Navy SEALs in Iraq recounts his time on the battlefield and the journey there and back.

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Washington'S Dark Secret

A new look at terrorism and how politics, the media, and the War on Terror play off one another.

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War Criminal's Son

The story of Confederate General John H. Winder and his son, Union Captain William Andrew Winder, who both served as prison commandants on opposite si

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Hunt for Jimmie Browne

On Tuesday, November 17, 1942, aircraft CNAC #60 climbed slowly toward the Himalayas, growing smaller and smaller until it finally faded from sight, n

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Spymaster's Prism

In SpymasterÂ’s Prism, the legendary spymaster Jack Devine aims to ignite public discourse on our countryÂ’s intelligence, covert action, and counteri

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Phishing for Nazis

Phishing for Nazis is an evidence-based, undercover study of neo-Nazi communities on anonymous communication platforms found on the dark web.

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Civil Liberties and Nazis

This study of civil liberties focuses on the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the dispute in Skokie, Illinois over the rights of members of t

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Nazis' Winter Warfare on the Eastern Front 1941-1945

Graphically describes the appalling hardships faced by German troops on the Eastern Front 1941-1945.

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Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East

Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East demonstrates the impact on the Arab world of Nazi ideology and propaganda in the 1930s and beyond.

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Tarzan - Versus The Nazis (Vol. 3)

Following on from Tarzan in the City of Gold and Tarzan Versus The Barbarians, Tarzan Versus The Nazis is the third of four exclusive volumes authoriz

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Nazis in the Metro - Daeninckx Didier

Anotace: From France´s leading political crime writer comes a novel that delves into the country´s radical political movements on both the left and the right, in the wake of a brutal attack. When André Sloga, an apparently washed-up novelist with a history of baiting the system, is assaulted and left for dead in the basement of his apartment building, the freelance priva...

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Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome

On October 16, 1943, the Jews of Rome were targeted for arrest and deportation. The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome examines why - and more i

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We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport (Scholastic Focus)

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Hitler's Defeat on the Western Front, 1944-1945

Traces the Nazis' retreat from Normandy to Germany.

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Mala´s Cat - Kacenbergová Mala

Anotace: Alone in a forest with only a cat for company - this is the deeply moving true story of one little girl`s remarkable survival in the shadow of the HolocaustGrowing up in the Polish village of Tarnogrod, on the fringes of a deep pine forest, Mala had the happiest childhood anyone could hope for.But, when the Nazis invade, her beloved village becomes a ghetto, and...

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Fritz and Kurt - Dronfield Jeremy

Anotace: "Extraordinarily touching" - The Jewish ChronicleWhen everything is taken away from you, love and courage are all you have left.In 1938, the Nazis come to Vienna. They hate anyone who is different, especially Jewish people.Fritz and Kurt`s family are Jewish, and that puts them in terrible danger.Fritz, along with his father, is taken to a Nazi prison camp, a ter...

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In the Full Light of the Sun

Based on a true story, unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, this gripping tale is about beauty and justice, and the truth th

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Travellers in the Third Reich

The acclaimed history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts

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Kill in the Morning

'I don't like killing, but I'm good at it. Murder isn't so bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my scope. Close-up work though - a garrotte around a target's neck or a knife in their heart - it's not for me. Too much empathy, that's my problem. Usually. But not today. Today is different...' The year is 1955 and something is very wrong with the world. It is fourt...

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The Volunteer : The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - The Costa Biography Award Winner 2019 - Jack Fairweather

<p>'Totally gripping'-- Simon Sebag Montefiore‘Pilecki is perhaps one of the greatest unsung heroes of the second world war ... this insightful book is likely to be the definitive version of this extraordinary life’ -- Economist</p> <p>Would you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others?</p> <p> </p> <p>In the Summer of 1940,...

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Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor - Ben Macintyre

<p>THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERDiscover the incredible true story of WW2's most extraordinary spy - from the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor. 'His best book yet' The Times________________From planning an assassination attempt on Hitler in Switzerland, to spying on the Japanese in Manchuria, to preventing nuclear war (or so she believed) by steal...

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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - Lewis Damien

Anotace: One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces` operations - Daily ExpressIn the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, wartime leader Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. He recruited a band of eccentric free-thinking warriors to become the first `deniable` secret operatives behind enemy lines,...

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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - Damien Lewis

<p>One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily ExpressIn the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, wartime leader Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. He recruited a band of eccentric free-thinking warriors to become the first 'deniable' secret operatives behind enemy lines, ...

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Transatlantic: Based on a true story, utterly gripping and heartbreaking World War 2 historical fiction - Orringer Julie

Anotace: 1940, France. In the middle of a devastating war, how many lives can you save?Varian Fry, a young American journalist, arrives in Marseille armed only with three thousand dollars and a list of writers, thinkers and artists he hopes to rescue - so long as the Nazis don`t get to them first.With borders closing around him, Varian tries to track down those on his li...

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Transatlantic: Based on a true story, utterly gripping and heartbreaking World War 2 historical fiction - Julie Orringer

<p>1940, France. In the middle of a devastating war, how many lives can you save?Varian Fry, a young American journalist, arrives in Marseille armed only with three thousand dollars and a list of writers, thinkers and artists he hopes to rescue - so long as the Nazis don't get to them first.With borders closing around him, Varian tries to track down those on his lis...

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The Book Of Dirt - Bram Presser

<p>They chose not to speak and now they are gone. . .What?s left to fill the silence is no longer theirs. This is my story, woven from the threads of rumour and legend.Jakub Rand flees his village for Prague, only to find himself trapped by the Nazi occupation. Deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, he is forced to sort through Jewish books for a so-call...

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Caste : The International Bestseller - Isabel Wilkerson

<p>From one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers, the moving, eye-opening bestseller about what lies hidden under the surface of ordinary livesIn this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how Am...

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The Book of Prague - Zikmund Jan

Anotace: An ex-con on compassionate release revisits his old haunts, only to feel dispossessed by how much the city has changed... The son of political dissidents in Soviet-era Prague is condemned to a life of menial jobs, like working at a local abattoir, unable to imagine his prospects ever improving... A young shop assistant in a tourist-friendly antique shop imagin...

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The Diamond Eye, 1. vydání - Kate Quinn

<p>The brand-new historical novel based on a true story from the bestselling author of The Rose Code and The Alice Network In the snowbound city of Kiev, aspiring historian Mila Pavlichenko's life revolves around her young son - until Hitler's invasion of Russia changes everything. Suddenly, she and her friends must take up arms to save their co...

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Wars Across The World - Classic Collection

The WAW base pack, contains the game engine, the tutorial and 10 different scenarios (and can make use of all future DLCs and packs): HAMILKAR 264, the long First Punic War, the first Rome vs. Carthage war. HASTINGS 1066, opposing Normans, Vikings ands Saxons to claim the crown of England. SARATOGA 1777, the battle that changed the course of the War of Ind...

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Wars Across The World - Classic Collection (PC)

The WAW base pack, contains the&nbsp;game engine, the tutorial and&nbsp;10 different scenarios&nbsp;(and can make use of all future DLCs and packs):HAMILKAR 264, the long First Punic War, the first Rome vs. Carthage war.HASTINGS 1066, opposing Normans, Vikings ands Saxons to claim the crown of England.SARATOGA 1777, the battle that changed the course of the Wa...

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The Daughter of Auschwitz - Tova Friedman

<p>The harrowing, moving and poignant account of one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz: a girl who was only five years old when she was sent to an extermination camp, and was one of the few people who entered a gas chamber and lived to tell her story.'I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murd...

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The Right Side of History : How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great - Shapiro Ben

Anotace: Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away?In 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California-Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required to protect his speech. What was so frightening about Shapiro? He came to argue that Western civil...

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Three Sisters : The conclusion to the Tattooist of Auschwitz trilogy - Morris Heather

<p>Based on the incredible true story of the Meller sisters, as told to Heather Morris. 'Gripping, heartbreaking and uplifting.' Christy Lefteri, author of the million-copy bestseller The Beekeeper of Aleppo THEIR STORY WILL BREAK YOUR HEART THEIR JOURNEY WILL FILL YOU WITH HOPE YOU WILL NEVER FORGET THEIR NAMES When they are little girls, Cibi, Magda and Livia m...

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The Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow - Deborah Dwork

'With simple means, without any 'title,' this book should in distant times always be in your memory.'An imprisoned bookbinder wrote these words in a small blank book that he had secretly crafted from pilfered materials at the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp in September 1944. He presented the album to a fellow prisoner, twenty-one-year-old Marianka Zadikow. Ov...

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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (1784701483)

Kniha - autor Timothy Snyder, 462 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Timothy Snyder, 462 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ...

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All the Light We Cannot See - Doerr Anthony

Anotace: SOON A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES - from director Shawn Levy, starring Louis Hofmann, Lars Eidinger and Marion Bailey, with Hugh Laurie and Mark Ruffalo, and introducing Aria Mia Loberti. WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION ...

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All the Light We Cannot See, 1. vydání - Anthony Doerr

<p>SOON A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES - from director Shawn Levy, starring Louis Hofmann, Lars Eidinger and Marion Bailey, with Hugh Laurie and Mark Ruffalo, and introducing Aria Mia Loberti. WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION ...

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All the Light We Cannot See, 1. vydání - Anthony Doerr

<p>SOON A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES - from director Shawn Levy, starring Louis Hofmann, Lars Eidinger and Marion Bailey, with Hugh Laurie and Mark Ruffalo, and introducing Aria Mia Loberti. WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION ...

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The Daughter of Auschwitz: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - a heartbreaking true story of courage, resilience and survival - Friedman Tova

Anotace: An incredible story of courage, resilience and survival. `I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor`s obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I must speak on their behalf.` Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghett...

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The Daughter of Auschwitz: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - a heartbreaking true story of courage, resilience and survival - Tova Friedman

The harrowing, moving and poignant account of one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz: a girl who was only five years old when she was sent to an extermination camp. <p>An incredible story of courage, resilience and survival. 'I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They ca...

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All the Light We Cannot See - Doerr Anthony

Anotace: A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. But when t...

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Until Thy Wrath Be Past: The Arctic Murders - atmospheric Scandi murder mysteries - Laurie Thompson

<p>Oprah.com raved that Asa Larsson's Rebecka Martinsson is a crime fighter who has all the needed gut insticts," and listed the series as "Mysteries Every Thinking Woman Should Read." In Until Thy Wrath Be Past the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Torne, in the far north of Sweden. Meanwhile, Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor i...

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Irregular Army

How the Us Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror

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Six Graves to Munich

A G.I. seeks vengeance on the six Nazis who tortured him and left him for dead in this taut thriller from the author of The Godfather.

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Hitler's Secret

With WWII on a knife-edge, the most devastating weapon against the Nazis may not be a weapon at all... In Rory Clements' most intelligent, thrilling n

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After Auschwitz (anglicky) - Schloss Eva

A story of heartbreak and survival by the step-sister of Anne Frank Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her

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To Siberia

In the bitter cold of Danish Jutland, where the sea freezes over and the Nazis have yet to invade, a young girl dreams of one day going on a great jou

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Clara's War

On 21 July 1942 the Nazis took control of the small Polish town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again.

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Hitler's Secret

With WWII on a knife-edge, the most devestating weapon against the Nazis may not be a weapon at all...In Sunday Times bestselling Rory Clement's most

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Katusha

On Sunday, June 22, 1941, the morning after Katusha's graduation, the Germans invade the Soviet Union. As enemy forces occupy Kiev, Ukraine, Katusha and her family learn the Nazis are not there to liberate them from harsh communist rule, but to conquer. Th

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Kissinger

The first of two volumes, this is an extraordinary panorama of Kissinger's world, and a reappraisal of the revered and reviled American statesman. Only through knowledge of Kissinger's early life (as a Jew in Hitler's Germany, a poor immigrant in New York, a GI at the Battle of the Bulge, an interrogator of Nazis, and a student of history at Harvard) can we understand his...

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Goodbye to Berlin - Isherwood Christopher

Anotace: `I`m the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn`t really, after all`Goodbye to Berlin is the novella that inspired Cabaret, evoking the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people under threat from the rise of the Nazis: a wealthy Jewish heiress, Natalia Landauer, ...

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Unbreakable - Richard Askwith

Anotace: WINNER OF THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Vast crowds have gathered to watch the Grand Pardubice steeplechase, Europe's most blood-curdling sporting test of manhood. With war looming, the race has a brutal political significance. The Nazis have sent the SS's all-conquering paramilitary horsemen ...

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Jewish Sights of Bohemia nad Moravia - Jiří Fiedler

<p>This guide book is the first work to give a comprehensive list and description of the historical monuments which have remained from more than 600 Jewish communities and a survey of the history of Jewish settlement in the Czech Republic. The guide contains comprehensive encyclopedic entries, arranged in alphabetical order, dealing with the history of 138 selected ...

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