Best Ww2 Museums In Europe - May 2024

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize "A superb and immensely important book."―Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostThe Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years...The end of World War II in Europe is remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, but the reality was quite different. Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed, and more than thirty million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted―such as police, media, transport, and local and nati... [Read More]

• ASIN: 125003356X
• ASIN: 125003356X
• ISBN: 9781250033567
• Brand: Picador USA
• Manufacturer: Picador

A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: “Beautifully told.”—CNN • “A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating.”—USA Today • “Oh, it’s a good one!”—Fox News A “beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies” emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Spearhead. December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt figh... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0095ZQ36G
• ASIN: B0095ZQ36G
• Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

The Women in the Castle: A Novel

• ASIN: B01I9BQA5U
• ASIN: B01I9BQA5U
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

Night (Night)

• ASIN: 0374500010
• ASIN: 0374500010
• ISBN: 9780374500016
• Brand: Wiesel, Elie/ Wiesel, Marion (TRN)
• Manufacturer: Hill and Wang

Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series)

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018)Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seriesAs the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through a sophisticated Nazi organization designed to hide them. Among those war criminals were Josef Mengele, the “Angel of Death” who performed hideous medical experiments ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250165547
• ASIN: 1250165547
• ISBN: 1250165547
• Brand: Henry Holt & Company, Inc.
• Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived The Holocaust

#1 New York Times BestsellerEdith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret.In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyz... [Read More]

• ASIN: B006ID6NDQ
• ASIN: B006ID6NDQ
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

Lilac Girls: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of The Nightingale and Sarah’s Key, inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom, and second chances.New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939—and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101883081
• ASIN: 1101883081
• ISBN: 1101883081
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

COBI Smithsonian Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis Plane Building Kit

On May 20, 1927, pilot Charles Lindbergh took off from New York City and headed east. Thirty-three hours, 30 minutes, and 3,610 miles later, he landed safely at Le Bourget Field, near Paris, France. He accomplished his historic flight in the Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis. It was the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean from the United States to Europe. The Spirit now resides in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for all to admire. This COBI Smithsonian set has faithfully reproduced this famous plane in detail never seen in construction blocks.

• ASIN: B06XFBY8T4
• ASIN: B06XFBY8T4
• Brand: COBI
• Manufacturer: Cobi Toys, LLC

Contemporary Photography from Eastern Europe: History Memory Identity

A wide-ranging and detailed survey dedicated to the protagonists of the contemporary art scene in Eastern Europe. As the title suggests, history, memory and identity are the principle “open questions” for many countries in Eastern Europe that have over the past twenty years seen their course in history change radically in the wake of the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989. The catalogue includes twenty-nine artists from eighteen countries, including the Russian Federation, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia and Croatia, many of which are pr... [Read More]

• ASIN: 8857204421
• ASIN: 8857204421
• ISBN: 8857204421
• Brand: Brand: Skira
• Manufacturer: Skira

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

• ASIN: B002LHRLNE
• ASIN: B002LHRLNE
• Manufacturer: Center Street

A Traveler's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (The Travellerªs Guides to the Battles & Battlefields of WWII)

This text provides information about museums, sites, memorials, statues and cemetries in relation to D-Day and the battle for Normandy. It gives details of how to get to them and what to see, and with the aid of maps and photographs it gives the reader a comprehensive account of the major battles. It also helps the reader to understand what it was like to have endured the ordeal of combat through contemporary eyewitness accounts. The book covers the period from June to August 1944 when the allies stormed the shore, fought their way through the brocage country of Normandy, and eventually broke ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1566564417
• ASIN: 1566564417
• ISBN: 1566564417
• Manufacturer: Interlink Pub Group Inc

From a Ruined Garden, Second Expanded Edition: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry (Indiana-Holocaust Museum Reprint)

An indispensable sourcebook... Emphasis falls on the variegated, often joyful, culture of the Polish Jews, on what existed before the garden was ruined." ―Geoffrey Hartmann, The New RepublicFrom these marvelous selections, one can see an entire culture unfolding." ―Curt Leviant, New York Times Book ReviewThis newly revised version of the classic study... is a pleasure for the eye and the soul! One of the seminal studies of the impact of the Shoah on European Jewry, it is even more moving in its new incarnation than in its original version. More than a collection of studies of books of reme... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0253211875
• ASIN: 0253211875
• ISBN: 0253211875
• Manufacturer: Indiana University Press

The British Spy Manual: The Authentic Special Operations Executive (SOE) Guide for WWII

Imagine sitting behind a desk, in a classroom, miles from anywhere in the English countryside, alongside dozens of fellow students, dreaming of being parachuted into Occupied France to undertake daring missions against Hitler's forces. What were you taught? What text books did they give you, and what homework and exams were you expected to pass in order to make the grade?  We now publish the classroom dossier that all secret agents being trained for missions against the Axis forces in the Second World War were supplied with and expected to implement when on service. Full of colourful and... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1781314020
• ASIN: 1781314020
• ISBN: 1781314020
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Aurum Press

History Prints WWII Map - HQ 12th Army Group Situation Map - March 11,1945 Declassified - 24 x 36 inches

This is a museum-grade reproduction of the HQ 12th Army Group for WWII. Each quadrangle sheet shows the position of the 12th Army Group and adjacent Allied Forces and of the German units for each day from D-Day (6 June 1944) thru 26 July 1945. Date of situation printed on each sheet. Map projections differ: Projection-Europe (air) conical orthomorphic -- Albers conical equal-area projection. Former security classification: Secret (officially declassified 18 June 1979).

• ASIN: B06X947PDM
• ASIN: B06X947PDM
• Brand: History Prints
• Size: 24X36 inches
• Manufacturer: History Prints

A Traveller's Guide to the Battle for the German Frontier (Traveller's Guides to the Battles & Battlefields of WWII Series)

A new kind of guidebook. Each title in the series gives comprehensive information about: -- Major battles and battlefields-- Memorials, sites, cemeteries, and statues-- How to get there; what to see-- Contemporary eyewitness accounts-- Maps and then-and-now photographsThe Traveller's Guides help us understand what it was like to have endured the ordeal of combat. Through their own words, we learn the feelings of those young men and women of many nationalities who fought and died. What were their private thoughts and fears? Their personal memories? Contemporary eyewitness accounts woven into th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1566563429
• ASIN: 1566563429
• ISBN: 1566563429
• Brand: Brand: Interlink Publishing Group
• Manufacturer: Interlink Publishing Group

Fodor's Vienna and the Best of Austria - eBook

Written by local experts, Fodor's travel guides have been offering advice and professionally vetted recommendations for all tastes and budgets for 80 years.With its old-world charm, musical heritage, and alpine landscapes, Vienna and Austria offer

• UPC: 651557462