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• Hitler - Joachim C. Fest
• Who dares, wins
• Benito Mussolini, The Rise and fall of Il Duce
• The Other side of the Hill
• The Desert Generals
• Panzer Leader
• Defeat into victory
• The Ultra secret
• The German Navy in World war Two
• The Last days of Hitler
• Hitler's Spies
• The Meaning of treason
• Doctor Goebbels
• The last Lion
• The Rise and fall of the Third Reich
• American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur
• Failure of a mission
• Montgomery
• The Struggle for Europe
• Hitler a study in Tyranny
• The Turn of the Tide

• Doctor Goebbels

Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel
softcover
253 pagina's
Engels
1974

Joseph Goebbels was possibly the most dangerous and intelligent member of the Nazi hierarchy, not excluding Hitler himself. Without Goebbels’ flair for propaganda and spectacular organization the Fuehrer might never have come to power. If Hitler was the Nazi genius of destructive evil, Goebbels was its constructive genius, for it was through his practical and intuitive understanding of the instruments of ‘public enlightenment’ that the dictatorship was built and maintained. As the founder of the Reich Chamber of Culture, the Gauleiter of Berlin and the architect of the complex machinery of modern totalitarian propaganda, Goebbels can be considered one of the most significantly evil and portentous figures of the twentieth century. A remarkable picture emerges of Goebbels’ mind as a schoolboy, student, lover, unsuccessful author and apprentice in political agitation. Interviews with his friends and family shed light on his character as a young man. This book charts the full trajectory of Goebbels’ career, showing him at the apex of his power, a master of oratory, a brilliant and cynical showman and a ruthless administrator. Doctor Goebbels also portrays the man at the end, in the Berlin Bunker, the most devoted of the Fuehrer’s henchmen, committing the last gesture of propaganda of which he was capable: the sacrifice of his life and that of his wife and six children.

• The Ultra secret

F.W. Winterbotham
Softcover
286 pagina's
1974

Operation Ultra was designed to intercept and decode German signals sent using Enigma, the top-secret German cypher machine. F.W. Winterbotham, was the man responsible for the organization, distribution and security of Ultra. This is his personal account of the operation.

• Hitler's Spies

David Kahn
The extraordinary story of German Military intelligence
softcover
525 pagina's

A German patrol wiggles through Russian lines to return with details of Soviet defenses. An expert Luftwaffe interrogator teases secret information from downed Allied airmen. Two spies steal ashore in Maine and make their way into New York City. Filled with episodes of intrigue and adventure, Hitler's Spies reveals the workings of German intelligence—the famed Abwehr, the dreaded SD, the codebreakers, the spies, and the intelligence gatherers of the Foreign Office—and explains its failure to best the Allies. Draws on original documents and extensive interviews.

• The meaning of treason

Rebecca West
softcover
314 pagina's
1956
Pan Books Ltd

West’s acclaimed examination of traitors, this gripping profile takes readers inside World War II spy rings and gets to the heart of what it means to betray one’s country
Throughout her career, Rebecca West dug into psyches, real and fictional, to try to understand the meaning of betrayal. In the aftermath of World War II, West was incensed when several wartime turncoats were tried with seeming indifference—and worse, sympathy—from the British public. In exploring these traitors’ origins, crimes, and motivations, West exposes how class division, greed, and discrimination can taint loyalties and redraw the relationships between individuals and their fatherland.

A fascinating book, The Meaning of Treason combines the intrigue of a spy novel with West’s classic, careful dissection of man’s moral struggles.

• Who Dares, wins

V Cowles
softcover
254 pagina's
1959
In the dark and uncertain days of 1941 and 42 when Rommel's tanks were smashing forward towards Suez, a handful of darin raiders were maiking history for the allies.
They operated deep behind the German lines, often driving hundreds of miles through African deserts where tehre were no roads and the nearest water might be 200 miles away.
Virginia Cowles OBE was born in Vermont in 1910.
She gravitated to journalism in her youth, writing features for Hearst Newspapers, and reported from Civil War Spain in 1937. She then covered wartime Europe as a roving correspondent for the Sunday Times among other publications, as well as the BBC and NBC.

Celebrated by Antony Beevor as 'one of the truly great war correspondents of all time', Cowles recalled her experiences in her memoir Looking for Trouble (1941), which Faber are republishing with a new foreword by Christina Lamb. She later reported from North Africa as special assistant to the American ambassador in London.
In 1945, Cowles married Aidan Crawley, a British journalist and former fighter pilot who had spent years in a German POW camp and later became a politician and film-maker; they had three children.
As well as writing a play with Martha Gellhorn, Cowles was a historian and biographer whose subjects included Winston Churchill and the Romanov, Rothschild and Astor families.

• Panzer Leader

Heinz Guderian
Chief of the German Army General staff
Softcover
400 pagina's
Heinz Guderian - master of the Blitzkrieg and father of modern tank warfare - commanded the German XIX Army Corps as it rampaged across Poland in 1939. This book presents an account of one of the most effective fighting force in modern history by the man who commanded it.

• Defeat into victory

Field Marshal Sir William Slim
softcover
458 pagina's
1958

Field Marshal William Slim stands alongside Montgomery as the outstanding British field commander of World War II. Defeat Into Victory is his classic account of the Burma campaign: a story of retreat, attrition and final hard-fought victory over the Japanese. Told by a commander always at the centre of events, this is a narrative which captures both the high drama and the harsh reality of war.

• The desert Generals

Corerelli Barnet
softcover
268 pagina's
1960

The distinguished historian Correlli Barnett gives here a complete and full account of the Desert Campaign 1940-43, an epic story set in a wasteland where soldiers fought for victory in a tumult of mechanical warfare. But THE DESERT GENERALS is also the story of five men under the strain of command in battle, the commanders who successively led the Allied forces against first the Italians and then the Germans in the ebb and flow of the desert war, culminating in the myth of Montgomery and the battle of Alamein, a myth that Correlli Barnett sets out to expose as ill-founded.

• The last days of Hitler

H.R. Trevor
The full story of Germany's final military collapse and the last mad hours of its fanatical leaders
softcover
1947
250 pagina's

• Listed as one of the Guardian's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time*

'Some books simply exude excitement and self-confidence, as if the writer is on fire with ideas, or intoxicated with information. This is one of those titles...remains unsurpassed' Robert McCrum, The Guardian
'Brilliantly written and researched, The Last Days of Hitler remains the most vivid account of the final Wagnerian chapter of Hitler's tyranny' Max Hastings
In September 1945 the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery. He had simply disappeared, and had been missing for four months. Hugh Trevor-Roper, an intelligence officer, was given the task of solving the mystery. His brilliant piece of detective work not only proved finally that Hitler had killed himself in Berlin, but also produced one of the most fascinating history books ever written.
The Last Days of Hitler tells the extraordinary story of those last days of the Thousand Year Reich in the Berlin Bunker. Besieged in the shattered capital, but still dominating the remains of his court, Hitler reiterated the original alternative of Nazism: either total victory or annihilation. This book is the record of that carefully prepared, ceremonious finale to a terrible chapter of history.
'This is an incomparable book, by far the best written on any aspect of the second German war: a book sound in scholarship, brilliant in its presentation . . . No words of praise are too strong' A. J. P. Taylor, New Statesman
'A masterpiece' The Times
'A brilliant study' Guardian

• The German navy in world war two

by Adward P. Von der Porten
softcover
285 pagina's
met afbeeldingen

Nazi and Allied ships in action-tracking the Graf Spee in the South Atlantic... the brilliant Channel dash by the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, Operation Sea Lion... U-Boat strategy against allied supply ships... and one of the most dramatic chases in the annals of naval warfare te hunting fo the Bismarck.Here is the gripping story of the Navy that carried on a victorious campaign against allied shipping in the early years of World War II... despite opposition fro mits own high command.

• The other side of the Hill

B.H. LiddellHart
softcover
344 pagina's
In the PAN GRAND STRATEGY series, this is an account of Germany`s generals, including their own version of the military events of 1939-1945 and details of their rise and fall, presenting a picture of the Second World War as it was seen by the men who commanded the panzer divisions and the might of the Wehrmacht. Originally published in 1948.

• Benito Mussolini, the rise and fall of Il Duce

Christopher Hibbert
Softcover
A Penguin Book
416 pagina's

Following the succes of the destruction of Lord Raglan, his classic study of the Crimean war, Christopher Hibbert has written a major biography of Mssollini, dictator of Italy. The book explains the Duce's astronomic rise to power, his conquest of Abyssinia despite opposition from the league of Nations, and his drift into alliance with Hitler.
At one moment he was the idolize demi-god of the Italian people, at another the monstrous buffoon of wartime propaganda - which is the truer picture?
Drawing on Italian sources and the accounts of those who knewhim, the author emphasizes the contracditions of a man who was by turns brutal and kind, vindictive and forgiving, petty and magnanimous.

• Hitler

Joachim . Fest
softcover
1225 pagina's
A bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen language, Joachim Fest's Hitler is acclaimed as "the best single volume available on the tortuous life and savage reign of Adolf Hitler" (Time). Ranks as a companion volume to Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and Albert Speer's memoir Inside the Third Reich.

• The Rise and fall of the third reich

A history of Nazi Germany by William L. ShirersoftcoverThe Famous bestseller Complete and Unabridged
1960
1600 pagina's

It was Hitler's boast that the Third Reich would last a thousand years. Instead it lasted only twelve. But into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilisation has ever known. William Shirer is one of the very few historians to have gained full access to the secret German archives which the Allies captured intact. He was also present at the Nuremberg trials. First published sixty years ago, Shirer's account of the years 1933-45, when the Nazis, under the rule of their despotic leader Adolf Hitler, ruled Germany is held up as a classic of its time. Some of his views have not stood the test of time but in this book Shirer explores how the Nazis commandeered the Holocaust, one of the most shocking acts of evil in modern history, plunged the world into a second war, and changed the face of modern history and modern Europe forever. 'One of the most important works of history of our time.' New York Times 'I can think of no book which I would rather put in the hands of anyone who wanted to find out what happened in Germany between 1930 and 1945, and why the history of those years should never be forgotten' Alan Bullock

• The last Lion

William Manchester
Visions of glory
1874 - 1932
softcover
821 pagina's
Cardinal

Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political figure of the twentieth century. His great oratory and leadership during the Second World War were only part of his huge breadth of experience and achievement. Studying his life is a fascinating way to imbibe the history of his era and gain insight into key events that have shaped our time.

In political office at the end of WWI, he foresaw the folly of Versailles and feared what a crippled Germany would do to the balance of power. In his years in the political wilderness from 1931 to 1939, he alone of all British public men, continually raised his voice against Hitler and his appeasers. For over fifty years, he was constantly involved in, and usually at the center of, the most important events of his age. It was, however, his obduracy on matters of principle, his fortitude in the face of opposition, and his perseverance in standing alone that defined him.

As a biographer, William Manchester is the standard by which all others are measured. And when a writer of his caliber is matched with a subject as colorful as Winston Churchill, look for results that are magisterial. This -- the first in a three-volume biography -- is a momentous piece of work.

• One of National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century*"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
• American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur

William Manchester
softcover
1978
960 pagina's
Inspiring, outrageous… A thundering paradox of a man. Douglas MacArthur, one of only five men in history to have achieved the rank of General of the United States Army. He served in World Wars I, II, and the Korean War, and is famous for stating that “in war, there is no substitute for victory.” American Caesar examines the exemplary army career, the stunning successes (and lapses) on the battlefield, and the turbulent private life of the soldier-hero whose mystery and appeal created a uniquely American legend. (Back Bay Books)

• Montgomery

Alan Moorehead
Star Editions
softcover
255 pagina's

• Failure of a Mission

Sir Neville Henderson
Hardcover
318 pagina's
Berlin 1937 - 1939

Failure of a Mission is arguably one of the most important political memoirs ever written in history. That is right, in history. The book, written by Sir Nevile Henderson, Britain's ambassador to Nazi Germany from 1937 to 1939, represents so many truths on so many different levels, it is impossible to be ignored or worse yet, not to be studied. It should be required reading for any student studying foreign policy or international relations.

Failure of a Mission was published by Putnam in 1940, a few months after Germany invaded Poland, and a little less than two years before Japan attacked the United States. It is a critical primary source concerning the events leading up to the Second World War but more importantly, it is a predicate for those presently contemplating political realism, internationalism, containment, appeasement, exceptionalism, or any other theorem that has governed relations between nations

• The Struggle for Europe

Chester Wilmot
Hardcover
766 pagina's
1952

This classic text describes the build-up of the invasion of Europe, and the scenes at the beach-head and in the "bocage" of Normandy. It also discusses the disputes among the Allies, the Anglo-American difficulties over Grand strategy, and the friction between Hitler and his generals which culminated in the plot of July 20th 1944, as well as the pincer movements of the Russians and the Anglo-American forces which brought Europe to victory.Bij vragen contacteer mij gerust.

Chester Wilmot’s The Struggle for Europe is the most highly regarded single-volume history of the Second World War in Europe. First published in 1952, the book has the advantage of the author's extensive interviews with participants from all sides of the conflict, when recollections of the war were still painfully fresh. The pattern of post-war Europe, he maintains, was determined during the fighting; he sees the shaping events through a study of wartime diplomacy and strategy and of the impact on wartime policies of the personalities of the statesmen and generals with whom the decisions lay. Throughout Wilmot hews to one guiding principle: To concern ourselves solely with the course of military events would be to tell only half the story and to see only half its significance. It is the political outcome that counts, and in this book the two are closely related at every stage.

• Hitler, A study in Tyranny

Alan Bullock
Hardcover
776 pagina's

• The Turn of the Tide

Arthur Bryant
Collins
Hardcover
786 pagina's
1939 - 1943
A study based on the diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Filed Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke

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