150,000 innocents died in Changchun at the end of WW2 when Mao's Revolutionary Army laid siege. Japanese girl Homare Endo, then age 7, was traumatized but survived to devote her life to telling the world of the atrocity China now denies. This gripping, firsthand account is tough reading, full of both brutal descriptions and dispassionate commentary on politics and humanity.
Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
“This passionate book delves deep into classical music’s responses to World War II, and the tragic intertwining of German and Jewish cultures. Eichler roves through history and language to express how music keeps cultural memory alive. Along the way, he paints an unforgettable portrait of an unspeakable time.” —Jeremy Denk, author of Every Good Boy Does Fine
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
A brilliant World War II cryptographer chronicles his career in the Special Operations Executive, discussing his replacement of outmoded codes with one-time silk-printed codes and showing how he broke de Gaulle's secret code, helped organize secret D-Day armies, and much more.
The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese "Comfort Women"
The Politics of Trauma and Integrity uses the lenses of gender and trauma to tell the stories of narratives testified by two contrasting Japanese "comfort women" survivors.
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is the little known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief pharmacist at the largest death camp, Auschwitz.
Working as a Berlin Passport Control Officer, Foley helped thousands of Jews to flee the country with visas and false passports, personally entering the camps to get Jews out, and sheltering those on the run from the Gestapo in his own apartment.
The Nine
The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris.
A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their hidden stories are exposed by a morning of bloodshed that would change the world forever.
It was Adolf Hitler's failed attempt to forcibly overthrow the democracy of Germany 🇩🇪
His trial was covered by the press in minute detail, and even though he went to jail he used the coverage to spread Nazi propaganda through the media 🎙️
Failed coup, media savvy, and evil. Sound familiar?
They had not known names of US #CivilRights icons A. Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Mary McLeod Bethune, Marianne Anderson--yet presumed to understand the intricacies of one of the most tragic & intractable conflicts on earth
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In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's war, through a host of individual women's experiences. She tells how they loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared; how they re-made their world in peacetime. And how they would never be the same again ...
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We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. But in conditions of "Total War" millions of women -- in the Services and on the Home Front - demonstrated that they were cleverer, more broad-minded and altogether more complex than anyone had ever guessed.
Braulia Cánovas Mulero (1920–1993) #Spanish Republican who fought against the Nazis in the French Resistance, in #WWII under the codename "Monique". She survived Nazi concentration camps, was liberated from Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945. French government awarded her a military Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. 2018 honoured by local town council along with 4 other Alhameños who were victims of the Nazi concentration camps New #wikipedia page #WikiWomenInRed@histodonshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braulia_C%C3%A1novas
Andrée Grandjean (pseudonym Françoise Bontemps) (1910-99) #Belgian lawyer, #WWII member of Belgian #Resistance. Leader organiser in Front de l'indépendance, co-organiser of Faux Soir newspaper act of resistance, communist activist. Post war returned to law, obtained death sentence for denouncer of Jean Hansen, student member of Resistance shot by occupying forces. Worked on the Marcinelle mining disaster trial. New @wikipedia page #WikiWomenInRed@histodonshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9e_Grandjean