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I denne dramatiske beretning skildrer modstandsmanden Aage Bertelsen sine oplevelser i forbindelse med de danske jøders redning i 1943. Bogen er udkommet i mange oplag, er blevet oversat til en række sprog og er en klassiker i litteraturen om jødeforfølgelsen og besættelsestiden i Danmark. "Jeg har læst denne bog med oprigtig beundring, dyb bevægelse og taknemmelighed.

I "Rundt om Annapurna" beskriver forfatter og litteraturforsker Knud Wentzel sine oplevelser fra sin vandring i Annapurna-bjergene i Nepal. I dagbogsfragmenter reflekterer han over stedet og rejsen som udtryksform. Knud Wentzel (f. 1941) er en dansk essayist, litteraturforsker og lektor ved Københavns Universitet. Knud Wentzel har de sidste mange årtier spillet en afgørende rolle på dansk litteraturforsknings scene. Knud Wentzel modtog Dansk Forfatterforenings H.C.Andersen Legat i 2015.

World War II rises in its vastness and complexity over the rest of human history. A number of victims difficult to conceive, never surpassed by any other conflict; the masses of men, women, and resources mobilized in a conflict that shook even the most remote ends of the planet; the ideological battle between totalitarianism and democracy, between fascism and communism, and the passions and hatred that it aroused; the unimaginable horror and fanaticism of the Holocaust; geopolitical games; the repetition of World War I on an even more dire scale.

A teenage girl, guilty only of being Jewish, is saved from the fate that awaits her family and hidden by her parents' Catholic friends—who pay the ultimate price for their bravery. So much was risked and so much lost but the legacy of their courage and trust lives on through the surviving generations. Now, at last, their story can be told . . .

Most popular accounts of the Holocaust typically cast Jewish victims as meek and ask, "Why didn't Jews resist?" But we know now that Jews did resist, staging armed uprisings in ghettos and camps throughout Nazi-occupied Europe. In Hope and Honor, Rachel L. Einwohner illustrates the dangers in attempting resistance under unimaginable conditions and shows how remarkable such resistance was. She draws on oral testimonies, published and unpublished diaries and memoirs, and other written materials produced both by survivors and those who perished.

I et kapløb for at bevise sine tekniske evner og med blikkene rettet mod verdensrummet, udkæmpede USA og Sovjetunionen Den Kolde Krig på himmelsk front. Kapløbet mod rummet begyndte da Sovjet opsendte Sputnik 1 i 1957. USA, som havde talt om at sende sin egen satellit op bare to år tidligere, begyndte at blive urolige for, at Sovjet ville anvende sine satellitter til et angreb. Derefter fulgte et kapløb, der skulle fortsætte indtil 1971, hvor Sovjet bemandede den første rumstation, Saljut 1, og relationen mellem landene aftog.

In this engaging narrative, historian Paul Kennedy grapples with the rise and fall of the Great Powers during World War II. Tracking the movements of the six major navies of the Second World War—the allied navies of Britain, France, and the United States and the Axis navies of Germany, Italy, and Japan—Kennedy tells a story of naval battles, maritime campaigns, convoys, amphibious landings, and strikes from the sea.

Che cosa successe di preciso quel martedì 10 giugno 1924, quando il pestaggio e l'uccisione di Giacomo Matteotti segnò un punto di svolta nella storia d'Italia? Ma soprattutto, quale fu la concatenazione di eventi che portò alla sua morte, e quale la catena di comando che sancì l'esecuzione del delitto? Con precisione chirurgica e lucidità da poliziesco americano, questo saggio inquisitorio scava negli archivi dell'epoca e riporta alla luce i fatti, le affermazioni e i personaggi che gravitarono intorno a Giacomo Matteotti nei giorni che precedettero il suo omicidio.

En 1945 Europa se encontraba en sus momentos más bajos. Gran parte del continente estaba devastado por la guerra, los asesinatos en masa, los bombardeos y el caos. Amplias zonas de Europa del Este empezaban a caer bajo control soviético para cambiar un despotismo por otro. En la actualidad, la Unión Soviética ya no existe y las democracias europeas llegan hasta la frontera de Rusia.

France: An Adventure History is a profoundly original and endlessly entertaining history of France, from the first century BC to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library. Beginning with the Roman army’s first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending with the Gilets Jaunes protests in the era of Emmanuel Macron, each chapter is an adventure in its own right. Along the way, listeners will find the usual faces, events and themes of French history.

In 1848, The Communist Manifesto was published by two émigrés from Germany. Marx and Engels' apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system that penetrates every corner of the world reduces every relationship to that of profit, and burst asunder the old forms of production and of politics. It is still a recognisable picture of our world—the vampiric energy of the system being once again highly contentious. This is a strikingly imaginative take on Marx and what his most haunting book has to say to us today.

The 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of the Depression, and overseas, the self-appointed national saviors dressing up old hatreds as new ideas. But there was another story that embodied mankind in that decade. The 1933 World’s Fair looked to the future, unabashedly, as one full of glowing promise, and no technology loomed larger at the Fair than aviation. It was only later in the decade that the dark correlation between the rise of some of aviation’s superstars and the rise of fascism was to be revealed.

A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead—a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather—was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won facts about the Holocaust at the precise moment that the last living survivors—the last legal witnesses—were dying.

The audiobook covers the first stages of the war, from 1927-1937, the interlude from 1938-1945 during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, and the final and most well-known phase of the war from 1946-1949. Learn about the causes, events, and lasting effects of the Chinese Civil War and about the warfare tactics and political strategy of the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Kuomintang during these integral years. This is the story about how a group of young, inexperienced Chinese revolutionaries changed the destiny of China.

It is 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy is 18 and looking for a summer job. He dreams of being a fire warden scanning the boreal forest from a fire tower. But to his dismay he is sent to an equipment depot somewhere between Val-d’Or and Chibougamau in Northern Quebec. His disappointment vanishes when he learns that the depot is located near a Cree community and that he will have two Cree guides, including a man named William Saganash, and his work will involve canoeing through the lakes and rivers of the region.

There are doers and there are preachers. The people who were executing orders or abusing people in World War Two wouldn’t have been able to commit any atrocities if the country hadn’t warmed up to an inhumane narrative. That’s where propaganda came in. Propaganda has long been part of various countries and societies to make the population believe something, and to find culprits, create feelings of animosity, and glorify local leaders or military campaigns.

La sobrecogedora historia real de los presos que tuvieron que boxear para sobrevivir en el infierno nazi; en el mayor matadero de inocentes jamás conocido... Auschwitz. Cuentan que allí, al otro lado, detrás de la alambrada, justo ahí donde el hombre nunca fue hombre, sino bestia, una vez un nazi preguntó: ¿Quién sabe boxear?

"Quell'automobile traforata di colpi, quei giornali sparsi sul sedile posteriore, quel corpo coperto da un lenzuolo, quel rivolo di sangue che attraversa l'asfalto di via Fani. Immagini, impresse nella nostra memoria, che scandiscono un passaggio d'epoca". Quando e perché è finita la Prima Repubblica?

The October Revolution of 1917, which saw the fall of the tsar and the installation of a provisional government in Russia, was a momentous event in modern history. However, the Russian Revolution was far from the end of the story of the establishment of Communism in Russia. Within months, the Red Bolsheviks were under attack by the reactionary Whites. The civil war raged for more than two years, leaving millions dead and many millions more displaced. Although less well-known than the revolution, the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922 did far more to shape the modern world.

Vuoden 1944 heinäkuussa Hitler ei aavista, että hänen selkänsä takana vehkeillään. Claus von Stauffenbergin on määrä kuljettaa Sudenpesään kaksi pommia ja räjäyttää ne Hitlerin, Himmlerin sekä Göringin läheisyydessä, jotta natsihallinnolla ei olisi enää johtajia. Legendaarista salamurhayritystä on kutsuttu myös nimellä operaatio Valkyyria, ja se on ainutlaatuinen vallankaappausyritys natsihallinnon historiassa, vaikka Hitleriin kohdistuikin yhteensä 40 murhayritystä.