Kategorien: Anden verdenskrigDenne kategori indeholder 2474 bøger.
Bøger om den Anden Verdenskrig finder du i denne gruppe, startende med Hitlers Mein Kampf, Biografier om krigens store personligheder, Attentaterne mod Hitler og hans folk i de besætteområder, Hitlers besættelse af randstaterne til Tyskland, Modstandskampen. Slaget om Rusland, Søkrigene, Spændende kampberetninger. Winston S. Churchill beretning om Anden Verdenskrig. Japans angreb på Pearl Harbor, der trak USA ind i Anden Verdens Krig, Stillehavskrigen, Atombomben der afsluttede anden Verdenskrig.
Original Softback - 158 sider. Ill.
To ramponerede kufferter stod i mange år på loftet i Nan Lillelunds hjem. Gemt væk, for de repræsenterede ubærlige minder. Sammen med sin mor endte Nan Lillelund nemlig i en japansk fangelejr på Java under 2. verdenskrig, og kufferterne var det eneste, de kunne kalde deres.
Tusinder af europæere blev ofre for grusomheder i fangelejrene. Forfattererens barndom dokumenterer en uhørt ondskab ogbrutalitet. Men også mod og overlevelsesvilje.
Vi er i Sverige i 1941-1943, hvor søstrene Rosa og Johanne Lauritzen på hver sin måde er involveret i krigen. Den ene som ansat i forsvarets efterretningstjeneste, den anden i den norske modstandsbevægelse under dæknavnet Blå Stjerne.
Femte bind i Det Store Århundrede; Jan Guillous romanserie om 1900 -tallet.
Softback/ paperback - 431 sider.
Oscar har ansvaret for Lauritzengruppens filial i Berlin, og her skaber han nye funktionalistiske boligkvarterer. Også den tredje bror, Sverre, befinder sig i Berlin. Han har efter sin elskede lord Alberts ded mistet lysten til at male, men fär snart stor succes som en af reklamebranchens pionerer.
Ingen ser faren. I hele Europa forestiller man sig, at der aldrig mere kan blive krig. Men efterhånden begynder der at blæse nye politiske vinde. Den sorte slagskygge af ufattelig ondskab vokser sig større og større.
MELLEM RØDT OG SORT er tredje bind i Det Store Århundrede, Jan Guillous romanserie om 1900-tallet.
Paperback / softback.
Jeg havde tyfus - en sygdom, man engang kaldte »fængselsfeber« i Europa, fordi den så ofte brød ud i fængsler. I den forstand var det kun passende, at jeg var blevet smittet i Auschwitz-Birkenau, det ultimative fængsel. Men dér kaldte man det Judenfieber, jødefeber.
Ens kropstemperatur stiger til op mod 41 grader, og man far en tør hoste - en hoste, jeg stadig døjer med i dag. Uden behandling kan dødeligheden ligge på hele 60 procent. Alt det vidste jeg ikke dengang. Jeg vidste heller ikke, at de rå løg de gav mig at spise i stedet for medicin, overhovedet ikke hjalp mig. Det eneste, jeg vidste, var, at jeg var skrækkeligt syg. Men viljen til at overleve holdt mig kørende og satte mig i stand til at kravle ud af køjesengen og stå ret sammen med de andre patienter, den dag Josef Mengele kom. Jeg havde selvfølgelig set ham mange gange for pả rampen - denne høflige, pæne og ulasteligt klædte SS-officer, der så fangerne an, når de tumlede ud af godsvognene. En udstrakt finger i de kostbare, grå dådyrskindhandsker; andet var der ikke. En finger mod højre betød liv, mod venstre betød død. Det var den vej, min familie var gået. De var tabere i nazisternes grufulde lotteri.
Hardback med omslag - 320 sider. Illustreret.
Året er 1943, stedet Korea. Den 16-årige pige Hana er dykker og hjælper til med at forsørge familien med sin fangst. Men hendes liv ændrer sig for evigt, da hun i et forsøg på at beskytte sin lillesøster, Emi, selv bliver taget til fange og bortført af en gruppe japanske soldater. De tvinger Hana til at arbejde som prostitueret på et bordel i Manchuriet. Mange år senere, i 2011, er Emi i Seoul for at besøge sin datter – og finde sin søster. Emi har været tynget af sorg og skyld, siden Hana blev bortført for adskillige årtier siden, men nu mener hun at have fundet ud af, hvad der skete med hendes storesøster…
De bortførte piger er fiktion, men begivenhederne i romanen er baseret på virkelige hændelser.
Under Anden Verdenskrig bortførte og tvangsprostituerede den japanske besættelsesmagt op mod 200.000 koreanske kvinder. I årevis blev kvinderne udsat for tortur og daglige voldtægter, og mange mistede livet. I dag er kun få af dem i live.
Softback / Paperback - 350 sider. Nyt eksemplar.
KIM MALTHE-BRUUN blev henrettet af nazisterne den 6. april 1945, 21 ar gammel. Hans dagbog og breve fra krigens àr rummer en nysgerrighed, livskraft og karlighed, der har hjulpet og inspireret generationer langt ud over hans egen. Med sine dagbogsoptegnelser fra livet pa soen, breve til kæresten Hanne og den tunge afsked fra fængslet inden doden tegnede han ikke blot et portrat af Danmark under besættelsen, men gav et af de starkeste vidnesbyrd i dansk litteratur om vundet og tabt ungdom.
Med forord af Kim Malthe-Bruuns søster Ruth Berner og omfattende billedmateriale fra familiens arkiv.
Smukt og veltilrettelagt bogværk - af blivende værdi.
[Historie - Tyskland - Weimarrepublik - Det 3. Rige - 2. Verdenskrig - Nationalsocialisme]. Originaltitel: "The SS: A History 1919-1945". Oversat til dansk af Rasmus Bjørgmose. En populær fremstilling af Schuts-Staffel, dets mange forgreninger og dets tiltagende rolle som stat i staten. Illustreret med s/h fotoplancher. Indhold: Forhistorien - De vilde bander, 1919-24 ; De tidlige år, 1925-29 ; Den opbyggende fase, 1930-32 ; Mulighedernes tid, 1933 ; Forræderiet, vinteren 1933-30. juni 1934 ; Fremgangens år, 1934-39 ; Den tragiske fuldbyrdelses tid, 1939-45 ; Konklusion: Bag besættelsens maske. Med stikordsregister.
Hardback - 306 sider.
Eksemplar i perfekt stand.
"1968" kredser om Eric Letang, en ung nyuddannet jurist med et stærkt politisk engagement. Som notar hos det berygtede advokatforma Henning Sjöstrand tvinges han gang på gang til at se i øjnene, hvordan jura kan bruges til både godt og ondt.
Den venstreradikale bølge i Sverige får familien Lauritzen til at glide fra hinanden. På den ene side står familiens unge, der er overbevist om at oprør er vejen frem. På den anden side står den ældre generation, der er overbevist om at ejerretten er vigtigere end alt andet.
"1968" er det syvende bind i Det Store Århundrede, Jan Guillous storstilede romanserie om 1900-tallet.
Hardback - 374 sider
BLÀ STJERNE er femte bind i Det Store Ärhundrede, Jan Guillous romanserie om 1900-tallet. Tiden er den samme som i IKKE AT VILLE SE, men vi meder en helt anden og sjældent skildret side af Anden Verdens-krig.
Hardback - 430 sider.
Hvidsten Kro mellem Randers og Mariager var centrum for en modstandsgruppe, der opstod i marts 1943. Gruppen blev ledet af kroejer Marius Fiil, og opgaven var at modtage våben og sprængstoffer nedkastet fra engelske fly. Hvidstengruppen bestod af 15 mænd og kvinder, heriblandt kroejerens søn og svigersøn samt to af hans døtre. Som familien var fælles om at drive kroen, blev den også fælles om modstandsarbejdet. Og deres indsats blev et
symbol på modstandskampen, som en folkelig dansk bevægelse i samarbejde med de allierede. Mustard Point er navnet eller rettere kodeordet for nedkastningsstedet. Erik Knoths roman er baseret på faktiske hændelser.
Hardback med omslag i Fin stand - 280 sider.
Clara Kramer var en helt almindelig pige pa 15 år, da Anden Verdenskrig brød ud. Men hun var også polak
- og jøde. Da tyskerne invaderede Polen, boede der omkring 5.000 jøder i Claras hjemby. Da krigen var slut, var der blot 60 tilbage. Clara og hendes forældre overlevede mirakuløst - takket være en etnisk tysker, der var en berygtet alkoholiker, skørtejæger og højrøstet anti-semit. Softback - 367 sider.
Bartnikowski’s stories are one of the most moving evidence of tragic fate of children in Auschwitz. In the book, the camp is shown from their perspective.
The author describes hunger, fear, loneliness and despair of children who were uprooted from the safe world of their childhood and left at the mercy of violence and death.
Softback -190 sider. ( 20,5 x 14 cm ). Sproget er ENGELSK
I 900 udvalgte s/h fotos med ledsagende tekst beskrives optakten til krigen og dens forløb frem til Japans kapitulation i efteråret 1945.
Antal sider: 600 - Indbinding: Hardback
Da nazisterne i 1943 indledte forfølgelsen af jøder i Danmark, flygtede hovedparten af de danske jøder til Sverige. For nylig er det kommet frem, at en del af dem, måtte efterlade deres børn i Danmark. Disse børn kaldes i dag 'de gemte børn'. I denne bog fortæller 11 af disse børn, hvordan det at være et 'gemt barn' har præget resten af deres liv.
Antal sider: 198 - Indbinding: Hæftet.
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They came in waves from the schools, factories, farms, and city streets, some driven by patriotism, but most with a dream. Bernard Nolan was one of the nearly 200,000 pilots who earned his wings during World War II. Nolan relates the journey of a boy with a passion for flying airplanes: how an uneducated kid from a fractured home environment weaseled his way into the Army's aviation cadet program and how his deliverance through flying threatened to unravel in the cold, lethal skies over Europe in 1944. The author has imbedded his experiences within the context of the history of the air battle over Europe in 1943 and 1944. He explores why the Eighth Air Force lost a battle of attrition with the Luftwaffe in 1943, and how and why it eventually triumphed in mid 1944. In the cockpit realism and little known details are provided in discussions of evolving technology, formation assembly and flying, ever changing tactics by both sides, prospects for surviving aerial combat, what it is like to be shot down, and excellent comparisons of the two pivotal aircraft, the B-24 and B-17. Nolan flew both in combat.
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Appalled at the German occupation of his homeland in 1939, Frank Mares determined to assist his country in their battle for freedom in the only way he could - as a fighter pilot. Unable to do so from Czechoslovakia he began his mission, navigating his way through Poland to France, through manned borders, guarded stations and hostile territory, in order to assist the offensive against their common enemy. Armed with fake identities, evading arrest and faced with uncertainties and frustrations at every turn, his journey was one of courage and fortitude. Narrowly avoiding a five-year enlistment in the foreign legion, Frank eventually made it into the French Air Force and finally, following the withdrawal of France from the war, joined 601 Squadron with the British RAF. Patriotic and determined, he was involved in numerous dogfights and had many engagements with the enemy, flying Hurricanes, of which he was particularly fond. In all of the battles that he fought in the skies with German Luftwaffe pilots, he was never shot down. In 1942 he was decorated with the DFM and Czech War Cross. Despite incident and injury Frank persevered, always driven by love for his country and for the planes he flew. He remained in England after the war and, now retired, lives in the West Country near the old RAF Harrowbeer airfield at Yelverton, Devon.
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Flying Spirit is a practical, no-nonsense guide to building a highly spirited organisation that recognises people as the prime value. It will help you to create teams with extraordinary understanding, trust and shared mission. This book is all about values -- vision -- mission -- teamwork and the human element. These are the issues that spell the difference between success, mediocrity, and failure. Flying Spirit has its genesis when the author commanded a fighter squadron in England, France and Belgium at the time of the Normandy invasion. Its methods have been successfully applied to large and small private and public sector organisations.
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Bob Foster is a well known figure at book and print signings in many parts of the UK. Although recognized as a Battle of Britain veteran, little is known of his life, or the details of his war service with the RAF. Often serving right up in the front lines, Bob saw the war at very close hand, and then quite by chance became one of the first, if not the first RAF officer to enter Paris with the liberating French army, and again, by chance, was in General de Gaulle’s triumphant procession down the Champs-Élysées. Persuaded to tell his story to air historian and well established aviation author Norman Franks, the result is a very readable account of his flying years. His memoir is an entertaining collection of stories and reminiscences of two distinct areas of WW2, which also shows how luck often shaped the lives of the fighter pilots involved.
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The Last of the Combat B-17 Drivers is the compelling and detailed personal account of Col. Harold D. Weekley, USAF (Ret.), 398th Bomb Group pilot, and the last combat B-17 First Pilot of World War II to fly the Boeing B-17 as pilot-in-command into the new millennium. This comprehensive work combines Col. Weekley's keen recollections with documented historical facts to describe his experiences as highly-trained U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in World War II, notably his combat missions aboard the Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress as a First Pilot flying from wartime Nuthampstead, England; his shoot down and bailout over enemy-occupied France; his escape and evasion from enemy forces; and his eventual repatriation to friendly forces. This book concludes by describing Col. Weekley's close association with the legendary B-17 into the twenty-first century. Throughout this 352-page work, Col. Weekley shares unabashedly his lasting love of his wife, family, and country. This book is abundantly illustrated with over 200 rarely seen black and white photographs, eight appendices, a comprehensive index, and hard-to-find information
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'I went into the cloud and went flat out for a few minutes, turned, and as I dived out my luck was in and I got him head-on. He went straight into the sea and I am glad to say there were no survivors. A Dornier which had blown up came floating down in bits and another burnt up on land. It was a most spectacular show.' Known as Pedro to his comrades and Tiggy to his family, Osgood Villiers Hanbury was a charismatic Eton schoolboy who, before his untimely death aged 25, became acting squadron leader of 260 Squadron in the Middle East and was awarded the DFC and bar for his bravery. Here, using letters and first person testimony, is his life in the RAF from training school to the Battle of Britain and ultimately to the Middle East. Pedro, with his pipe, mustache, upper-class accent and slightly detached air was the archetypal public-school educated Englishman, but his leadership skills and care for his men commanded respect from all ranks and nationalities. An accomplished letter writer, his lust for life and thirst for action are evident in his missives to family and friends. His dramatic firsthand descriptions of air battles that cost the lives of his comrades are a thrilling testament to the bravery of 602 Squadron, but are counterbalanced by his frustrations of life in the Middle East, the long wait for action and the opportunities for leisure. With the help of Christopher Hanbury, the son he never saw, and Christopher Shores, the acclaimed author, Robin Rhoderick-Jones has written a fine tribute to a naturally gifted pilot whose fearlessness, efficiency and unswerving devotion to both his duty and his loving family were praised by colleagues and superiors alike. Sir Christopher Lee was Pedro's intelligence officer in the Middle East and had kindly agreed to pen a foreword.
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The amazing story of one of 'the Few', fighter ace Tom Neil. This is his memoir of the Battle of Britain, May - December 1940, when aged only 19 he shot down 13 enemy aircraft.
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Merriam Press Military Monograph MM69. Fourth Edition (2014). The Story of Sgt. William True, American Paratrooper in World War II. The true story of William True, a paratrooper who served with Co. F, 506th Parachute Inf. Regt., 101st Airborne Div., from training at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, through Normandy, Holland, Bastogne and the Battle of the Bulge, to Alsace and Berchtesgaden. Now that Easy Company of the 506th PIR has been made famous by "Band of Brothers," it is Fox Company's turn, and this is the story of the men of that "band of brothers" in a moving, memorable account. The title derives from True's jump into Normandy at 1:20 a.m. on June 6, 1944. Bill landed in a pasture next to a very placid and unconcerned cow. Bill spoke a friendly greeting to her, but received no response. Why not? Because the cow spoke French. 59 photos, illus., maps.
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“Slaughter vividly conveys the reality of combat during World War II in his book with sweeping passages that literally place his reader on the battlefield beside him.” Belvoir Eagle Before D-Day, regular army soldiers called the National Guardsmen of Virginias 116th Infantry Regiment "Home Nannies," "Weekend Warriors," and worse. On June 6, 1944, on Omaha Beach, however, these proud Virginians who carried the legacy of the famed Stonewall Brigade showed the regular army and the world what true valor really was. In this moving World War II memoir, the author captures the day-to-day comings and goings of GI Joe from pre--World War II National Guard days through induction, training, deployment overseas, and more training. All leads up to D-Day and Normandy on June 6, 1944, when Sergeant Bob Slaughter came across Omaha Beach with Company D of the 116th Infantry. This was the beginning of his long march to final victory in Europe, a march that would take him and his fellow soldiers of Company D, at least those who survived, to Holland, the Bulge, and on into Germany itself.
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Follow along as the author relates his experiences from the time he enlists in the Army Air Force in 1942, thru training as an Aviation Cadet and finally as the pilot-in-command of a B-17 Flying Fortress as the 8th Air Force mounts its attack against Hitler's Germany. Enjoy moments of humor, live incidents of aviation suspense and feel the sorrow of tragic times.
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In "Ready or Not," readers will come to know and appreciate World War II B-17 pilot and former POW Angier, one of the many heroes of what author and journalist Tom Brokaw has called "the greatest generation."
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Touching, thoughtful, and dead honest, To Fly and Fight is the story of a boy who grew up living his dream. During World War II Anderson flew with Chuck Yeager in the famed 357th Squadron where he became a triple ace by shooting out of the sky fifteen enemy planes. Following World War II, Anderson became a test pilot and later commanded jet fighter squadrons in South Korea and Okinawa. Then, in 1970, at an age when most pilots have long-since retired, Anderson flew combat strikes over Vietnam.
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This is the unique story of Red Campbell - the story of a man who would stop at nothing to live his dream. In the autumn of 1940 when he was eighteen, John A. Campbell III (Red) tried to enlist with the US Army Air Force. He was turned away. His high school education and youth were working against him. John was desperate to get into the fight. Even the Royal Air Force (RAF) turned him down, telling him to return when he was nineteen. Red's birthday was only one month away. He returned. He was accepted. He became an Eagle. In the words of John A. Campbell III (Red): "Over the years, friends and relatives have asked me why I have not written a book about my WWII experiences. My answer has been that there are several books already published in which the writer has said some very flattering things about me (not always accurate). So why should I ruin the image already established by telling the truth? Now, as I surrender to the evening of my life, I finally realize that I have much to tell. Where Eagles Fly is my story, as I remember it. The most important thing to me is to know that my kids and their kids and all of the generations to follow, know exactly who I am and from where I came . . . This is my story...Where Eagles Fly is my Legacy...Remember Me..."
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This is the unique story of Red Campbell - the story of a man who would stop at nothing to live his dream. In the autumn of 1940 when he was eighteen, John A. Campbell III (Red) tried to enlist with the US Army Air Force. He was turned away. His high school education and youth were working against him. John was desperate to get into the fight. Even the Royal Air Force (RAF) turned him down, telling him to return when he was nineteen. Red's birthday was only one month away. He returned. He was accepted. He became an Eagle. In the words of John A. Campbell III (Red): "Over the years, friends and relatives have asked me why I have not written a book about my WWII experiences. My answer has been that there are several books already published in which the writer has said some very flattering things about me (not always accurate). So why should I ruin the image already established by telling the truth? Now, as I surrender to the evening of my life, I finally realize that I have much to tell. Where Eagles Fly is my story, as I remember it. The most important thing to me is to know that my kids and their kids and all of the generations to follow, know exactly who I am and from where I came . . . This is my story...Where Eagles Fly is my Legacy...Remember Me..."
