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A New History
n June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an ...
Stalin, the Nazis and the West
When do you think the Second World War ended? If the end of the war was supposed to have brought 'freedom' to countries that suffered under Nazi occup...
Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new ...
People Tested to the Extreme in WWII
How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was i...
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Superb' ANDREW ROBERTS In this classic book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tell...
A Warning From History
Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the p...
A Warning from History
Previously unpublished archival material, photographs, and eyewitness testimony offer a look at Nazi Germany from Hitler's rise to power to the end of...
When Hitler Fought Stalin
This text offers interviews with witnesses who knew Stalin and Hitler, together with documents from Russian archives. It explores in detail the reason...
The Tyrants and the Second World War
An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around th...
Stalin, The Nazis and the West
In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted som...
Fuelled by hate. Unable to form normal human relationships. Unwilling to debate political issues. In many ways Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader,...
Award-winning writer and filmmaker Laurence Rees has spent nearly 20 years meeting people who were tested to the extreme during World War II. He has c...
Leading Millions into the Abyss
At the age of twenty-four, in 1913, Adolf Hitler was eking out a living as a painter of pictures for tourists in Munich. Nothing marked him in any way...
The Nazis and "the Final Solution"
Published for the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz--a devastating and surprising account of the most infamous death camp the world has ...
eine Warnung der Geschichte
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The brutality of Japanese soldiers towards both allied prisoners of war and millions of civilians in Asia during the Second World War was one of the g...
Japan And The Atrocities Of World War 2
The question is as searing as it is fundamental to the continuing debate over Japanese culpability in World War II and the period leading up to it: "H...
An essential guide to the most intense, dramatic, important and extraordinary conflicts over the last 5,000 years and the consequences of those clashe...
Japan and the Atrocities of World War II
Twelve Warnings from History
From an award-winning historian comes a fresh analysis of the rise of Nazi extremism, how such thinking gained popularity, and why it is vital to figh...
Some would argue that Dr Jospeh Goebbels is an anachronistic model of a totalitarian propagandist. But modern-day political consultants, it seems, use...