This box set brings together five brilliant titles which recount the major events of World War II, from Dunkirk to the Nuremberg trials.
With breakdowns of skilful military manoeuvres, chilling accounts of Nazi organisations and astounding details from the fall of Berlin, this collection chronicles the defeat of Germany and the Axis powers.
- Great Battles of World War II by Michael Dudley
- The D-Day Landings by Nigel Cawthorne
- Hitler's Last Day by Richard Dargie
- The Story of the SS by Al Cimino
- The Nuremberg Trials by Alexander Macdonald
Great Battles of World War II by Michael Dudley
The early years of World War ll had gone well for Nazi Germany. At its height, the Third Reich stretched from Stalingrad in the east to the English Channel in the west, and from the northernmost tip of Europe to the North African desert. In 1941, the Japanese launched their attack on Pearl Harbor, turning the tide of battle as the U.S. joined
the action against them.
This is the story of how the Allies emerged victorious from the war, beginning with the
moment Hitler's worst nightmare came true and he found himself fighting a war on two
fronts: D-Day, 6 June 1944.
The D-Day Landings by Nigel Cawthorne
This book tells the story of Operation Overlord, the largest and most meticulously planned seaborne invasion in the history of warfare.
As dawn broke on 6 June 1 944, thousands of Allied soldiers - American, British, Canadian, Free French and Polish - hit the Normandy beaches and stormed the German defences of the Atlantic Wall By midnight, more than 1 50,000 troops had been safely landed, and the long push towards Berlin and the final defeat of the Third Reich had begun.
Hitler's Last Day by Richard Dargie
Have you ever wondered what was going on in Adolf Hitler's mind during his final hours in the Führerbunker? What were his thoughts as radio contact with the outside world grew faint, Soviet explosions became louder and louder, and he began to feel his unassailable power ebbing away? Did Hitler repent of his crimes against humanity or was he obsessed with thoughts of his imminent defeat and suicide?
With an inimitable cast of doomed characters, from Hitler himself to his mistress Eva Braun, mass-murderer Heinrich Himmler, cunning chief of Nazi propaganda Joseph Goebbels, and the manipulative Martin Bormann, this book captures all the drama and dread in the bunker as the Red Army remorselessly advanced into the heart of Berlin,
and Hitler and his Thousand-Year Reich vanished into history.
The Story of the SS by Al Cimino
The Schutzstaffel, or SS- the brutal elite of the Nazi Party was founded by Hitler in 1925 to be his personal bodyguard From 1929, it was headed by Heinrich Himmler, who built its numbers up from under 300 to well over a million by 1945 The SS became the very backbone of Nazi Germany, taking over almost every function of the state.
SS members were chosen not only to be the living embodiment of Hitler's notion of 'Aryan supremacy, but also to cement undying loyalty to the Führer at every level of German society.
Merciless fanatics in jackboots, the SS systematically slaughtered tortured, and enslaved millions. This is the story of the rise and fall of one of the most evil organizations the world has ever seen.
The Nuremberg Trials by Alexander Macdonald
On 20 November 1945, six months after VE Day marked the end of war in Europe, 21 Nazi leaders stood in the dock in the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg in Germany
Organized by the victorious Allies - Britain, the USA, the Soviet Union, and France - this was the first of 12 trials. Eleven days later, all 21 of the defendants were found guilty.
The Nuremberg Trials is a fascinating account of the events of those 1 1 days, the accumulation and recounting of the most horrific evidence given by witnesses, and how
those accused sought to justify crimes that, directly or indirectly, had led to the deaths of more than 60 million people across the world.