Auschwitz Death Camp (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

Auschwitz Death Camp (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

The concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was the site of the single largest mass murder in history. Over one million mainly Jewish men, women, and children were murdered in its gas chambers. Countless more died as a result of disease and starvation. 'Auschwitz Death Camp' is a chilling

Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz (Leitner Isabella)(Paperback)

The deeply moving true account of a young Jewish woman's imprisonment at the Auschwitz death camp In 1944, on the morning of her twenty-third birthday, Isabella Leitner and her family were deported to Auschwitz, the Nazi extermination camp. There, she and her siblings relied on one another's love

Nazi Concentration Camp Overseers: Sonderkommandos, Kapos & Trawniki (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

The Nazis' vast concentration camp network and, later, the 'Final Solution' programme made heavy demands on the SS whose responsibility it was. The use of 'overseers' minimised costs and enabled the camps to run with fewer SS personnel. As this well researched book describes, there were three

Himmler's Death Squad: Einsatzgruppen in Action, 1939-1944 (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

The murderous activities of Himmler's Einsatzgruppen - or death squads - rank high among the horrors of the Nazi regime during the Second World War. These hand-picked groups followed in the wake of Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht units advancing intro Eastern Europe and Soviet Russia.Their mass murder of

Sobibor: A History of a Nazi Death Camp (Schelvis Jules)(Paperback)

Auschwitz. Treblinka. The very names of these Nazi camps evoke unspeakable cruelty. Sobibor is less well known, and this book discloses the horrors perpetrated there.Established in German-occupied Poland, the camp at Sobibor began its dreadful killing operation in May 1942. By October 1943,

Hitler's Panther Tank Battalions, 1943-1945 (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

Auschwitz (Rees Laurence)(Paperback / softback)

We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder in history - part death camp, part concentration camp, where around a million Jews were

The Destruction of 6th Army at Stalingrad (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

The scale of death and destruction during the Battle of Stalingrad during late 1942 and early 1943 remains unprecedented in the history of warfare.The annihilation of General von Paulus' 6th Army epitomised the devastating defeat of Hitler's ambition to conquer Stalin's Soviet Union. After the

Magician of Auschwitz (Kacer Kathy)(Paperback / softback)

Werner is a boy alone in the Auschwitz concentration camp and sharing his bunk with a gentle man Herr Levin. One night Werner is wakened by the sound of prison guards shouting at Herr Levin, 'Do your magic!' Werner never expected to meet a magician in such a sad and frightening

Maximilian Kolbe: A Saint in Auschwitz (Vivier Jean- Francois)(Paperback)

It's July 1941 in the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe steps forward. 'Let me take this man's place,' he says, thereby volunteering to die in the place of a stranger who had just been condemned to death by his Nazi captors. By means of this

Last Stop Auschwitz - My story of survival from within the camp (Wind Eddy de)(Paperback / softback)

Death Camp Uprising - The Escape from Sobibor Concentration Camp (Yomtov Nel)(Paperback / softback)

Experience the events that followed the Sobibor death camp prisoner's decision to escape. Readers will discover a powerful story of human courage and mankind's fierce will to

Panzergrenadiers 1942-1945 (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

The term Panzergrenadier was introduced in 1942 and applied equally to the infantry component of Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and later Waffen-SS Panzergrenadiere divisions.As this classic new Images of War book describes, these elite divisions fought as mechanized infantry and escort for and in close

Survival in Auschwitz (Levi Primo)(Paperback)

The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi's experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a 'true work of art, this edition includes an exclusive conversation between the author and Philip Roth. In 1943, Primo

Commandant at Auschwitz: The Autobiographys of Rudolf Hoess (Hoess Rudolf)(Paperback)

An extraordinary and unique document: Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis murdered some three million Jews, from the time of its creation (he was responsible for building it) in 1940 until late in 1943, by which time the mass exterminations were half

Belsen and Its Liberation (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

Accompanied by rare and unpublished photos with in-depth captions the book presents a unique visual account of one of the Nazi's most infamous concentration camps. The imagery shows the SS's murderous activities inside Belsen, and also reveal another disturbing side to them relaxing in their

Death Camp Uprising - The Escape from Sobibor Concentration Camp (Yomtov Nel)(Pevná vazba)

Experience the events that followed the Sobibor death camp prisoner's decision to escape. Readers will discover a powerful story of human courage and mankind's fierce will to

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Borowski Tadeusz)(Paperback)

Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the

The Warsaw Uprisings, 1943-1944 (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

By 1942 the Nazi leadership had decided that the Jewish ghettos across occupied Poland should be liquidated, with Warsaw's being the largest, processed in phases.In response the left-wing Jewish Combat Organisation (ZOB) and right-wing Jewish Military Union (ZZW) formed and began training,

Hitler's Heavy Tiger Tank Battalions 1942-1945 (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

With rare, often unpublished photographs and full captions Hitler's Heavy Tank Battalions provides a superb record of the Wehrmacht's Schwere Panzerableilung on operations between 1942 and 1945.In addition to the Tiger I and successor Tiger II heavy tanks, these battalions were equipped with

German Army on the Eastern Front: The Advance (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

German Army on the Eastern Front - The Advance is a highly illustrated record of the extraordinary feat of arms that saw the Nazi armies drive deep into the vast terrain of the Soviet Union, to the gates of Stalingrad and Moscow. It traces the campaign from these hopeful beginnings until, on the

Finishing the Picture: Collected Poems (Abbot Ian)(Paperback)

Ian Abbot's life was one devoted to poetry, but at the time of his early death in 1989 he had published only one collection of poems. To the complete text of that first book, 'Avoiding the Gods', this new volume adds poems from Abbot's archives in the National Library of Scotland - some carefully

6th SS Mountain Division Nord at War 1941 1945" (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord 1941 - 1945 is the 6th book in the Waffen-SS Images of War Series compiled by Ian Baxter. The book tells the story of the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord, which was formed in February 1941 as SS

Panzer-Divisions at War 1939-1945 (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

From the beginning in 1935 this attractive book describes the different elements that went into the Panzer-Divisions. It describes how the Germans carefully built up their assault forces utilizing all available reserves and resources into making an effective fighting machine. It depicts how these