Isaac's Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
10 best books like Isaac's Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland (Matthew Brzezinski): The Avengers: A Jewish War Story, Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944, The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War, The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II, No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II, Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising, Total War: From Stalingrad to Berlin, To Kingdom Come: An Epic Saga of Survival in the Air War Over Germany, Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America
| Author | Rich Cohen |
| ISBN | 0375705295 |
The true story of a band of Jewish guerrillas, called the Avengers, in World War II. What happened to these rebels in the ghetto and in the forest, and how, fighting for the State of Israel, they moved beyond the violence of the Holocaust and made new lives.
In 1944, a band of Jewish guerrillas emerged...
Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
On September 8, 1941, eleven weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation.
Anna...
| Author | Dan Kurzman |
| ISBN | 0399116923 |
In October 1940 Nazis forced all the Jews in the Polish city of Warsaw to live in the cramped squalor of a small ghetto. Despite the starvation and disease that claimed 50,000 lives per year, the Jews were not dying swiftly enough to suit Heinrich Himmler, who ordered in 1942 that the Warsaw Ghetto be dismantled...
| Author | Halik Kochanski |
| ISBN | 0674068149 |
The Second World War gripped Poland as it did no other country in Europe. Invaded by both Germany and the Soviet Union, it remained under occupation by foreign armies from the first day of the war to the last. The conflict was brutal, as Polish armies battled the enemy on four different fronts. It was on...
| Author | Alex Kershaw |
| ISBN | 0306815575 |
December 1944. Soviet and German troops fight from house to house in the shattered, corpse-strewn suburbs of Budapest. Crazed Hungarian fascists join with die-hard Nazis to slaughter Jews day and night, turning the Danube blood-red. In less than six months, thirty-eight-year-old SS Colonel Adolf...
No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II
| Author | Kenneth K. Koskodan |
| ISBN | 1846033659 |
There is a chapter of World War II history that remains largely untold, the story of the fourth largest allied military of the war, the only nation to have fought in the battles of Leningrad, Arnhem, Tobruk and Normandy. The story of millions of young men and women who gave everything for freedom and in...
| Author | Alexandra Richie |
| ISBN | 0374286558 |
The full untold story of how one of history’s bravest revolts ended in one of its greatest crimes
In 1943, the Nazis liquidated Warsaw’s Jewish ghetto. A year later, they threatened to complete the city’s destruction by deporting its remaining residents. A sophisticated and cosmopolitan...
| Author | Michael Jones |
| ISBN | 1848542291 |
In February 1943, German forces surrendered to the Red Army at Stalingrad and the tide of war turned. By May 1945 Soviet soldiers had stormed Berlin and brought down Hitler's regime. Total War follows the fortunes of these fighters as they liberated Russia and the Ukraine from the Nazi invader and fought...
| Author | Robert J. Mrazek |
| ISBN | 0451232275 |
The breathtaking, never-before-told, true story of a historic air- force bombing mission in 1943 Germany.
On September 6, 1943, three hundred and thirty-eight B-17 "Flying Fortresses" of the American Eighth Air Force took off from England, bound for Stuttgart, Germany, to bomb Nazi weapons...
"The words leaped at me from The Washington Post. 'I have decided,' President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced, 'that approximately 1,000 refugees should be immediately brought from Italy to this country.' One thousand refugees....For years, refugees knocking on the doors of American consulates...
| Author | John C. McManus |
| ISBN | 0451237064 |
I've read lots of books on American airborne operations in World War II, from Koskimaki's trilogy of the 101st, Ambrose's "Band of Brothers" and Nordyke's history of the 82nd, to personal accounts from Carter, Gavin, Burgett, Webster and Magellas. So it was nice to finally get a book which put all the...
| Author | John Erickson |
| ISBN | 0304365408 |
The follow-up to the acclaimed The Road to Stalingrad tells the compelling story of the Red Army's epic struggle to drive the Germans out of Russia and back to Berlin. Using Soviet, German, and Eastern European primary sources, John Erickson describes fighting and hardship on an almost unimaginable...
| Author | William I. Hitchcock |
| ISBN | 0743273818 |
Americans are justly proud of the role their country played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny. For many years, we have celebrated the courage of Allied soldiers, sailors, and aircrews who defeated Hitler's regime and restored freedom to the continent. But in recounting the heroism of the "greatest...
A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II
| Author | Lynne Olson |
| ISBN | 0375411976 |
A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known, and brilliantly told story of the scores of Polish fighter pilots who helped save England during the Battle of Britain and of their stunning betrayal by the United States and England at the end of World War II.
Centering on five pilots of the...
| Author | Richard Overy |
| ISBN | 0670025151 |
The ultimate history of the Allied bombing campaigns in World War II
Technology shapes the nature of all wars, and the Second World War hinged on a most unpredictable weapon: the bomb. Day and night, Britain and the United States unleashed massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize occupied...
| Author | Cioma Schönhaus |
| ISBN | 0786720581 |
In Nazi Germany, 20-year-old graphic artist Cioma Schönhaus found a unique outlet for his talent: he forged documents for people fleeing the Reich, ultimately helping to save hundreds of lives. Yet, even as the Gestapo posted his photo in public, he lived a daring life, replete with fine restaurants...
| Author | Martin Gilbert |
| ISBN | 0805062602 |
The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
Drawing from twenty-five years of original research, Sir Martin Gilbert re-creates the remarkable stories of non-Jews who risked their lives to help Jews during the Holocaust.
According to Jewish tradition, "Whoever saves one life, it is as if...
| Author | Millie Werber |
| ISBN | 1610391225 |
Judged only as a World War Two survivor's chronicle, Millie Werber's story would be remarkable enough. Born in central Poland in the town of Radom, she found herself trapped in the ghetto at the age of fourteen, a slave laborer in an armaments factory in the summer of 1942, transported to Auschwitz in...
Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc--The Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way Across Europe
| Author | Patrick K. O'Donnell |
| ISBN | 0306820293 |
It is said that the right man in the right place at the right time can make the difference between victory and defeat. This is the dramatic story of sixty-eight soldiers in the US Army’s 2nd Ranger Battalion, Company D - "Dog Company”— who made that difference, time and again.
From...
| Author | Mary Soames |
| ISBN | 0385604483 |
Now in her eighty-ninth year, Mary Soames is the only surviving child of Winston and Clementine Churchill. Younger than her siblings by several years, she went to day school and enjoyed an idyllic childhood played out in her very own 'Garden of Eden' - Chartwell. Here she roamed house and grounds, tended...
Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle, 17-26 September
| Author | Martin Middlebrook |
| ISBN | 0140143424 |
It wasn't until many months later that ground forces captured Arnhem in conventional fighting. It had literally been "a bridge too far". This book consists of interviews, research of British and Polish airborne forces involved in Arnhem, German forces and Dutch civilians caught up in the battle....
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery
| Author | Witold Pilecki |
| ISBN | 1607720108 |
In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and reported from inside the camp. His intelligence reports, smuggled out in 1941, were among the...
| Author | Robert Marshall |
| ISBN | 0684193205 |
In German-occupied Poland, a group of resourceful Jews found the perfect place to hide from the Nazis, and avoid the mass executions in May of 1943. Enduring hunger, rats, thirst, dysentery, and incredible psychological pressure, they hid for nearly two years in the sewer system beneath the city of...
Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
| Author | Richard Rhodes |
| ISBN | 0375708227 |
In Masters of Death, Richard Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the part played by the Einsatzgruppen - the professional killing squads deployed in Poland and the Soviet Union, early in World War II, by Himmler's SS. And he shows how these squads were utilized as the Nazis made two separate...
