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Ribbentrop’s Watch: The True Story of a Nazi Artefact by Cyril Marlen is a haunting investigation into how a single object can reflect the shadows of an entire regime. Part biography, part historical mystery, and part moral reckoning, this gripping narrative follows the journey of a seemingly ordinary wristwatch once worn by Joachim von Ribbentrop—Nazi Germany’s Foreign Minister and one of the most loyal figures in Hitler’s inner circle.

The epic successor to Tim Weiner’s National Book Award-winning classic, Legacy of Ashes: a gripping and revelatory history of the CIA in the 21st century, reaching from 9/11 through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to today’s battles with Russia and China—and with the President of the United States.

Originally written in 1944 by the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.), the wartime predecessor to the CIA, the Simple Sabotage Field Manual is a fascinating and often startling guide to subtle disruption during World War II. Designed to be used by ordinary citizens behind enemy lines, this manual offered clever, low-risk ways to undermine operations—from misfiling paperwork to tampering with machinery and stalling meetings.

In the secretive world of World War II espionage, where deception could save lives and a whisper could move armies, one of the most incredible operations ever devised involved a corpse, a briefcase, and a story too bizarre to be fiction. Operation Mincemeat tells the true tale of how British intelligence pulled off a daring trick that convinced Adolf Hitler to send his troops in the wrong direction—by using a dead man carrying false documents.

Eight women. Thousands of children saved. Unforgettable stories of courage. They were teachers, nurses, students—ordinary women who made extraordinary choices. In the darkest days of World War II, they risked everything to save the most vulnerable: the children. Saving the Children of the Holocaust tells their incredible stories.

Samurai! is the gripping autobiography of Saburō Sakai, one of Japan’s most renowned fighter pilots during World War II. Co-written with Fred Saito and Martin Caidin, the book chronicles Sakai’s rise from a poor rural upbringing to becoming an elite Zero pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Told with a thrilling pace, New York Times bestselling author and historian Scott Ellsworth has written the most compelling new book about the Civil War in years. Focusing on the last, desperate months of the war, when the outcome was far from certain, Midnight on the Potomac is a story of titanic battles, political upheaval, and the long-forgotten Confederate terror war against the loyal citizens of the North.

The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world. Long after the last helicopter evacuated Saigon, Americans have continued to battle over whether it was ever a winnable war.

In Fear No Pharaoh, journalist and historian Richard Kreitner sets this question at the heart of the Civil War era. Using original sources, he tells the intertwined stories of six American Jews who helped to shape a tumultuous time, including Judah Benjamin, the brilliant, secretive lawyer who became Jefferson Davis's trusted confidante; Morris Raphall, a Swedish-born rabbi who defended slavery as biblically justified; and Raphall's rival rabbis—the celebrated Isaac Mayer Wise, who urged Jews to stay out of the slavery controversy, and David Einhorn.

At the eve of the Second World War, an estimated 1.6 million Jewish children lived in Nazi-occupied Europe. While 10,000 of them escaped to Britain in the Kindertransport, only some 500 found a new home in France. Here they attempted to begin again—but their refuge would all too soon become a trap. For the first time, Laura Hobson Faure brings to life the experiences of these children, and the Jewish and non-Jewish organizations who helped them. Drawing on survivors' testimonies as well as children's diaries, letters, drawings, songs, and poems, Who Will Rescue Us? recreates their journeys.

During WW2, St. Nazaire was the most strategically important naval facility in the whole of occupied Europe. It was vital to the Nazi war effort because it was the only place outside Germany where the mighty Tirpitz battleship could be repaired and refitted. Having such a base meant that this most powerful of warships could be unleashed into the North Atlantic to attack the vulnerable allied supply lines and win the war for the Nazis. Central to the drama was the enormous ‘Normandie’ dry dock. If the Germans could make use of the dock to repair and refit Tirpitz, then the whole balance ...

Plunge with Ernest Ellis into the abyss • nightmare of concentration camp horrors • ideologies of the Nazi regime • insanity of a nuclear arms race unleashed and its threat to our very existenceWhen will the enmity and hatred end so man can live in a world of peace? Catch glimpses that lift the heart in possibility and hope…through the passion of writers and political leaders of the era and the eyes of Ellis’s first novel, There Lies A Tale... “There Lies A Tale” by Ernest Ellis “A well-conceived and beautifully written tale of the Holocaust from a deeply subjective ...

Hitler’s Inner Circle: Monsters and Yes-Men is a gripping and unflinching examination of the personalities who shaped the Third Reich from within. While Hitler remains the focal point of Nazi horror, he did not act alone. This book exposes the men who not only supported him but often rivalled him in ruthlessness, loyalty, and ambition.

En un mundo contemporáneo plagado de conflictos y narrativas contradictorias diseñadas para sanear o demonizar a los países participantes, necesitamos una comprensión profunda pero concisa de la esencia de las partes beligerantes para poder emitir buenos juicios, condenar adecuadamente o llevar a cabo acciones justificadas. Es en esa línea que el escritor nos lleva en un vívido viaje a través de los siete siglos de historia polaca que definieron el carácter de la nación, forjaron su identidad y establecieron sus relaciones con sus vecinos de una manera que determina en gran medida ...

Fast planes. Big money. No rules. Before the era of drones and digital warfare, there were men who flew straight into the heart of darkness with nothing but their instincts and a battered aircraft. This isn’t fiction dressed up to sound real—it’s the adrenaline-laced, firsthand account of a mercenary pilot flying for the CIA in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Step into the cockpit of a short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft screaming over the jungle canopy, loaded with weapons, rice, or refugees—depending on the day. These ex-military pilots were recruited by shady ...

Spanning a millennium of history across eleven time zones, the story of Russia is one of unmatched scale, geographic extremity, and relentless political drama. This book provides a comprehensive, chronological narrative of the civilization that emerged on the vast Eurasian plain, from its origins as a collection of Slavic tribes to its role as a global power in the 21st century. It is a sober, fact-driven account of the cycles of reform, reaction, and revolution that have defined one of the world's most complex and formidable nations. The journey begins with the rise and fall of the first ...

The Fall of the Reich: The Final 100 Days tells the harrowing and historically rich story of how the Third Reich unravelled during its final, desperate months between January and May 1945. What was once a seemingly invincible Nazi war machine had by 1945 become a hollow shell—crumbling under the weight of defeat, dissent, and destruction. From the failed final offensive in the Ardennes to the thunder of Soviet artillery at the gates of Berlin, this book tracks the intense and often chaotic events that sealed Hitler’s fate and reshaped the modern world.

In the shadows of World War II, the Allies staged a military illusion so bold, so convincing, that it changed the course of history. This is the story of Operation Fortitude—the fake army, the rubber tanks, the phantom generals, and the elaborate radio chatter that convinced Hitler the D-Day invasion would strike somewhere else. It wasn’t just a trick. It was a masterclass in strategic deception. And it worked.

Una iglesia sitiada. Una guerra olvidada. Una promesa más fuerte que la muerte. Juan de Estrada, joven madrileño de buena familia, deja atrás la comodidad del despacho para alistarse como voluntario en la última frontera del Imperio español. No busca gloria, sino algo más profundo: contar la verdad de aquellos que resisten cuando todo está perdido. Pero en el pueblo remoto de Baler, rodeado por la selva y el fuego enemigo, el destino le espera con otro plan. Muerto en los primeros días del asedio, su alma queda atrapada entre los muros de la iglesia-fortaleza. Invisible, silencioso,...

The Arghandab River Valley is known for its lush vegetation from its grape furrows and its pomegranate orchards. It's also known as the birthplace of several Taliban leaders such as Mullah Omar and Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, and was a major crossing route for weapons coming from Pakistan into Kandahar. This hostile environment had already claimed the lives of many seasoned infantrymen.