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1941 : the year Germany lost the war / by Nagorski, Andrew,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."By 1941, Nazi armies were ruling Europe, bombing London, and sinking British and American ships. The U.S. was undeclared and Britain was alone. But Nagorski shows that Hitler's grave miscalculations had already assigned Germany to ruin. By the end of that year Hitler had taken almost every wrong decision possible and though the fighting went on until 1945, Germany was already vanquished. As Nagorski demonstrated in The Greatest Battle, the Germans lost their first major battle in 1940 because Hitler meddled with and overruled his generals. Throughout 1941, Hitler continued to indulge his ego and make disastrous decisions. By invading the USSR he brought the Soviets to the Eastern Front. By declaring war on the U.S. he added the power of the U.S. to the Western Front. England was no longer alone. The Americans launched their attacks from its shores. The German's brutal treatment of the Russia and Polish POWs and citizens energized their will to fight back. The Year that Germany Lost the War is a stunning portrait of leadership. Churchill elegantly holding a battered Britain together; FDR biding his time until American forces can come aide the allies; Stalin fighting brutally, but enslaving Eastern Europe and planning a Cold War. And Hitler dragging his nation to physical and moral ruin before he took his life in ignominy."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Nineteen forty-one, A.D.;
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The big jar of butter / by Grimm, Jacob,1785-1863.; Grimm, Wilhelm,1786-1859.; Nelley, Elsie.; Spiby, Ben.;
In this retelling of a tale from the Brothers Grimm, a cat and a mouse hide a big jar of butter so they will have food for the winter, but the cat secretly visits the hiding place and eats it all.LSC
Subjects: Mice; Cats; Avarice; Tales;
© c2011., Nelson Education,
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Beethoven : a life in nine pieces / by Tunbridge, Laura,1974-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius shaking his fist at heaven. Beethoven by Oxford professor Laura Tunbridge cuts through the noise in a refreshing way. Each chapter focuses on a period of his life, a piece of music and a revealing theme, from family to friends, from heroism to liberty. It's a winning combination of rich biographical detail, insight into the music and surprising new angles, all of which can transform how you listen to his works. We discover, for example, Beethoven's oddly modern talent for self-promotion, how he was influenced by factors from European wars to instrument building, and how he was heard by contemporaries"--Amazon.ca.
Subjects: Biographies.; Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.; Composers;
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The happiest man on Earth : the beautiful life of an Auschwitz survivor / by Jaku, Eddie,author.;
"Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on the Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he survived, Eddie made the vow to smile every day. He pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom and living his best possible life. He now believes he is the 'happiest man on earth'"--Publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Jaku, Eddie.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Centenarians; Concentration camp inmates; Happiness; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Immigrants; Jews; World War, 1939-1945;
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Prisoners of the castle [text (large print)] : an epic story of survival and escape from Colditz, the Nazis' fortress prison / by Macintyre, Ben,1963-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, a definitive and surprising new narrative of one of history's most famous prisons--and the remarkable cast of POWs who tried to relentlessly escape their Nazi captors. The myth of Colditz, the most infamous prison in history, has stood unchallenged for 70 years: prisoners of war, mustaches firmly set on stiff upper lips, defying the Nazis by tunnelling out of a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop. Like all legends, that story contains only part of the truth. In Ben Macintyre's brilliant, cliche-smashing new history, he offers a vision of Colditz previously unimagined, a story of much more than an escape, just as the prison's inmates were far more complicated than the cardboard saints depicted in post-war pop culture. Colditz was a miniature replica of office-class society at the time, only far stranger: a lethal, high stakes boarding school surrounded by barbed wire, initially containing prisoners of all Allied nations, including Canada, but eventually only Britons and Americans, a heavily guarded cage with its own culture, eccentricities, and internal tensions. In intimate and compelling detail, Macintyre explores what happens to people when they are locked up without committing a crime and with no idea when or if they might be liberated. Colditz, then, is a tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of snobbery, class conflict, hidden sexuality, bullying, espionage, boredom, insanity, and farce. With access to declassified archives, private papers, and never-before-seen photos, the author reveals a remarkable cast of characters, previously hidden from history: Indian doctor Birendranath Mazymdar, the only non-white prisoner, whose ill-treatment, hunger-strike and eventual escape reads like fiction; Florimond Duke, America's oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent; Christoper Clayton Hutton, the brilliant inventor employed by British intelligence to manufacture escape aids for POWs, from maps hidden in playing cards to a compass secreted inside a walnut; and many others. Bringing together the wartime intrigue of his acclaimed Operation Mincemeat and keen psychological portraits of his bestselling true-life spy stories, Macintyre has breathed stunning new life into one of the greatest war stories ever told."--
Subjects: Large type books.; Schloss Colditz (Colditz, Germany); Prisoner-of-war escapes; Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Lives reclaimed : a story of rescue and resistance in Nazi Germany / by Roseman, Mark,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The story of a remarkable but largely unsung group known as the Bund, League of Socialist Life, which went on to resist the Nazis during WWII, sheltering Jews and covertly sending letters and parcels into concentration camps, among other activities"--
Subjects: Bund--Gemeinschaft für Sozialistisches Leben; Anti-Nazi movement; World War, 1939-1945; Government, Resistance to; Socialists;
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The unfortunate Englishman : a Joe Wilderness novel / by Lawton, John,1949-author.;
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Cold War; Private investigators;
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The missing. [videorecording] / by Chanan, Ben,television director.; Williams, Harry,screenwriter.; Williams, Jack,screenwriter.; Morrissey, David,actor.; Hawes, Keeley,1977-actor.; Allam, Roger,actor.; Fraser, Laura,1976-actor.; Hille, Anastasia,actor.; Williams, Lia,actor.; New Pictures (Firm),production company.; BNP Paribas Fortis Film Fund,production company.; Czar TV Productions,production company.; Starz Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc,film distributor.;
David Morrissey, Keeley Hawes, Roger Allam, Laura Fraser, Anastasia Hille, Lia Williams.In 2014, a young British woman stumbles through the streets of her German hometown and collapses. Her name is Alice Webster and she has been missing for eleven years. Alice's return sends shockwaves through the small community.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Television crime shows.; Abduction; Missing children;
For private home use only.
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The death of democracy : Hitler's rise to power and the downfall of the Weimar Republic / by Hett, Benjamin Carter,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Hitler promised to fix the economy, to create jobs, and to make Germany great again How did Hitler happen? Germany's Weimar Republic was a state-of-the-art modern democracy, with a proportional electoral system and protection for individual rights and freedoms, expressly including the equality of men and women. Germany had the world's most prominent gay rights movement. It was home to an active feminist movement that, having just won the vote, was moving on to abortion rights. The death penalty had virtually been abolished. And workers had won the right to an eight-hour day with full pay. Jews from Poland and Russia flocked to Germany's greater tolerance and openness. Hitler came to office in January 1933 with the largest number of seats in the Reichstag, Germany's parliament. Like the three chancellors before him, Hitler had been put into office by a small circle of powerful men who sought to take advantage of his demagogic gifts and mass following to advance their own agenda. They assumed they had Hitler squarely under control. Hett's book is a short history of how Adolf Hitler, once elected, used the levers of power to destroy the Weimar democracy and replace it with a Nazi dictatorship. The parallels to current politics are clear and disturbing. Hett examines the political and social context in which the Nazis rose to power and how Hitler himself was a shrewd and intuitive political player. Hett writes with the drama, detail, and pacing that makes his account read like a compelling political thriller."--
Subjects: Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.; Political culture;
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Valkyrie / by Boeselager, Philipp Leopold Antonius Hubertus,Freiherr von,1917-2008.; Boeselager, Philipp Leopold Antonius Hubertus,Freiherr von,1917-2008.Nous voulions tuer Hitler.English.; Fehrenbach, Florence.; Fehrenbach, Jérôme.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Boeselager, Philipp Leopold Antonius Hubertus, Freiherr von, 1917-2008.; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945; Conspiracies; Soldiers;
© 2009., Alfred A. Knopf,
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