These are four new titles in this burgeoning series providing a great introduction to the remarkable lives of important historical figures Each book describes a famous life following the protagonist through their triumphs & tribulations It has lively speech colourful illustrations & photographs that bring the reader closer to the action as the story unfolds ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Berlin 1945 In the Fuhrerbunker the last hiding place of the man who unleashed a reign of terror across Europe it is Adolf Hitler&s 56th birthday As the Allied troops close in on the doomed city Nazi leaders headed by Martin Bormann Goebbels & Keitel celebrate the Fuhrer&s birthday
- knowing it will be his last But even as Allied guns pound Berlin to ruins Hitler still plots brooding over maps moving non-existent armies Finally he accepts the inevitable goes through a marriage ceremony with Eva Braun dedicates his last will & takes a pistol from a drawer It is left to Goebbels to tell the last of his followers " The Furher is dead- the heart of Germany has ceased to beat" Sir Alec Guinness gives a masterly performance as the demented Hitler in this faithful re-creation of the last days of the German leader&s life
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Motivated by anger & misdirected by ego Hitler struggles in a world he believes owes him something enticing Germany in a macabre dance of surrender & control Emerging from WWI after a stint in the German Army he accepts their offer to infiltrate & spy on the German Workers& Party Their nationalism & anti-Semitism match Hitler&s virulent personal politics so he strikes while the iron is hot & by draping his agenda in mythical legends of Aryan superiority he makes the iron even hotter by repeatedly striking it Nominated for no less than seven Emmy awards Actors Robert Carlyle Stockard Channing Jena Malone Julianna Margulies Matthew Modine Liev Schreiber Peter Stormare Friedrich von Thun & Peter O& Toole Director Christian Duguay Certificate 12 years & over Year 2003 Screen Widescreen 1771 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 2 hours & 57 minutes (approx)
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Hitler's Alpine Headquarters look at the development of the Obersalzberg from a small long established farming community into Hitler's country residence & the Nazis' southern headquarters Introducing new images & additional text this book is a much expanded sequel to the author's acclaimed Hitler's Alpine Retreat (P & S 2005) This book will appeal to those with a general interest in the Third Reich It explains how & why Hitler chose this area to build a home & his connection to this region New chapters focus on buildings & individuals of Hitler's inner circle not covered in the earlier book The development of the region is extensively covered by use of contemporary propaganda postcards & accompanying detailed text Presenting the history of this region & the many associated important historical moments in contemporary postcards allows the reader to view the subject matter as it was presented to the masses at that time With over 300 images & three maps & the opportunity to compare a number of 'then & now' images the story of Hitler's Southern Headquarters is brought to life through this extensive coverage Two seasons as an expert tour guide specializing in the history of the region during the Third Reich period allowed the author to carry out his own detailed research There is an interview with a local man who as a small boy was photographed with Hitler together with comments gathered during a recent meeting with Rochus Misch who served on Hitler's staff ...

How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes In Hitler's American Model James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime Contrary to those who have insisted that there was no meaningful connection between American & German racial repression Whitman demonstrates that the Nazis took a real sustained significant & revealing interest in American race policies As Whitman shows the Nuremberg Laws were crafted in an atmosphere of considerable attention to the precedents American race laws had to offer German praise for American practices already found in Hitler's Mein Kampf was continuous throughout the early 1930s & the most radical Nazi lawyers were eager advocates of the use of American models But while Jim Crow segregation was one aspect of American law that appealed to Nazi radicals it was not the most consequential one Rather both American citizenship & antimiscegenation laws proved directly relevant to the two principal Nuremberg Laws--the Citizenship Law & the Blood Law Whitman looks at the ultimate ugly irony that when Nazis rejected American practices it was sometimes not because they found them too enlightened but too harsh Indelibly linking American race laws to the shaping of Nazi policies in Germany Hitler's American Model upends understandings of America's influence on racist practices in the wider world ...

It's April 1940 & German troops are pouring onto the streets of Denmark 12-year-old Bamse is ordered by his father to keep his head down & stay out of trouble But Bamse & his daring friend Anton can't resist playing the occasional practical joke on the invading soldiers When it becomes clear that the trouble isn't just going to pass them by the people of Denmark decide to take action & Bamse & his eccentric family are about to take part in one of history's most dramatic rescues
- smuggling Denmark's Jewish population across the water to Sweden & safety Many of the characters are based on Sandi's own family including her father Bamse & the book was inspired by the stories her told to her
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&A prizewinning novel for readers of 8 – 12 told through the voice of a contemporary child as she weaves a story about a secret child of Hitler The bombs were falling the smoke was rising from the concentration camps but all Hitler’s daughter knew was lessons with Fraulein Gelber the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold & infrequent visits from her beloved Duffi her father Was it just a story? Did Hitler’s daughter really exist? If you were Hitler’s daughter would it all be your fault? Could you still love your own father if he had done what Hitler did? Mark a contemporary child starts to question his own beliefs as he listens to the story that Anna weaves A wonderfully sensitive & gripping time-slip novel that will sit well with When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit; Number the Stars & Big Tom WW2 is a major historical topic studied in in UK primary & secondary schools but this novel also deals with questions children so often ask of the ‘ What if?’ variety& ...

' More than 70 years ago I was a "gift" for Adolf Hitler I was stolen as a baby to be part of one of the most terrible of all Nazi experiments Lebensborn'; The Lebensborn programme was the brainchild of Himmler an extraordinary plan to create an Aryan master race leaving behind thousands of displaced victims in the wake of the Nazi regime; In Hitler's Forgotten Children Ingrid von Oelhafen shares her incredible story as a child of the Lebensborn a lonely childhood with a distant foster family; her painstaking & difficult search for answers in post-war Germany; & finally being reunited with her biological family
- with one last shocking truth to be discovered
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In September 1943 at the height of World War II the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the most pivotal battle of the Dodecanese campaign as the British tried in vain to retain control of the island Over the course of two short months
- from 15 September 1943 to 17 November 1943
- almost 1500 men lost their lives & hundreds more ended up in Prisoner-of-War camps In this book Julie Peakman a modern-day resident of Leros brings to life the story of the men caught up in the battle based on first-hand interviews & written accounts including diaries letters & journals She tells of the preparations of the soldiers leading up to the battle the desperate h&-to-hand fighting & the suffering endured from continual bombings She also shows the extent of the men's despair at the allied surrender the many subsequent daring escapes as well as the terrible years of incarceration for those who were captured & imprisoned Many of the heart-rending accounts of the battle are told here for the first time providing a unique eyewitness take on this forgotten corner of World War II

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On 30th April 1945 Germany is in chaos
- Russian troops have reached Berlin All over the country people are on the move
- concentration

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