The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.
The story of two courageous opponents within Hitler’s Germany—Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the celebrated theologian, and his brother-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi, a lawyer in the Wehrmacht—who both bravely resisted the Nazis During the twelve ...
Abteilung Deutschland came about as a department of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs in May 1940, following a reorganization of the Referat Deutschland. The latter was established in 1933,...
But he was the Sunday school teacher who led D. L. Moody to Christ. He went one afternoon to the Boston shoe store where the nineteen-year- old Moody was working, cornered him in the stockroom, and introduced him to Christ.
Reflecting on the work of one of the field's most influential scholars, the twenty essays in this book explore the evolution and application of Holocaust historiography, identify key insights into genocidal settings and point to gaps in our ...
See Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom (New York: Avon Books, 1965); and G. P. Gooch et al., The German Mind and Outlook (London: Chapman & Hall, 1945). 28. See Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Meridian, 1971).
In this groundbreaking book, Stefan Kühl offers a new analysis of the integral role that membership in organizations played in facilitating the annihilation of European Jews under the Nazis.
In An Ordinary Man, he tells the story of his childhood, retraces his accidental path to heroism, revisits the 100 days in which he was the only thing standing between his “guests” and a hideous death, and recounts his subsequent life ...
Sangshak Sangshak, The Battle at Sato, General Saunders, Lieut-Col Peter Scoones, Lieut-Col Sir Geoffrey Scott, Lieut-Col Robert Seaman, Harry Shapland, BrigJ. D. Shaw, Major Bobby Sher Regiment Short, Douglas Slim, Maj-Gen Smith, ...
Too often men are portrayed by the media as weak or mean, violent or passive.
No Ordinary Men peels back the cloak of secrecy and reveals four untold special operations that Joint Task Force 2, an elite counterterrorist unit, conducted in 2005–06 in which their courage, tenacity, and impressive capabilities meant ...