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As If He Were My Brother
Following the Italian armistice of 8 September 1943 the prisoners of war who had been held in the work camps in the region of Piedmont dispersed into the surrounding countryside. They were in desperate need of assistance - and a place in which to hide from the nazi-fascist forces bent on hunting them down. Many Italians from all walks of life came to their aid. After the war the Allied Screening Commission invited these people to submit a claim for expenses. Their requests, which vividly desribe the risks they ran, from having their house burnt down to being arrested and shot, form the subject of this book.
Some Corner of a Foreign Field
"Even after capture, the full horrors of war still persisted. Bombed and strafed by our own planes, and shelled by our own artillery, the words 'For you the war is over, Tommy, ' had a hollow ring...November 1942, after five months in Suani Ben Adem, we sailed from Tripoli, en route to Naples. We were held in the hold of a coal boat, battened down, with only a few buckets for sanitation purposes. Packed in like sardines, we would have had no chance of survival, had the ship come under attack from the Royal Navy, not an uncommon occurrence." These are the words of Private Bill Blewitt, 1st Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters, captured near Gazala in the Western Desert. He survived his capture, ...
Before Whom I Stand
John Dethick, bass baritone, 1915-2000, to be was considered by many to be the oustanding interpreter of the title role in Mendelssohn's Elijah of his time. Born in Henley on Thames to Derbyshire parents, apart from two seasons in London at Sadler's Wells and two on the Spa in Scarborough, he lived in Derbyshire, his family's roots in the county dating back to the early Middle Ages. The first part of the book is a transcription of a recording he made of his life story in 1995. The second and third give documentary evidence of his career, including concert reviews, whilst the fourth refers to his two most successful pupils, the late Patricia Leonard of D'Oyly Carte Opera and internationally renowned bass John Tranter. There is also a contribution from his daughter, Janet Kinrade Dethick.
The Road to Civitella 1944
The massacre and destruction of Civitella on 29 June, 1944 by the 1st Fallschirm Panzer Division 'Herman Goring' as reprisal for the shooting of three German soldiers in the village Dopolavoro-after work social club, left women widows and children fatherless. The book describes the journey of Captain John Percival Morgan and Father Clement O'Shea with the Eighth Army in Italy, to that hilltop village in Tuscany. Even though they had seen much death and destruction during their service in North Africa and Italy, they were moved by the plight of this small community. The two British officers adopted the village, and over a five-month period, regularly brought life-saving supplies and comfort t...
Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin
In the 1930s, hundreds of scientists and scholars fled Hitler’s Germany. Many found safety, but some made the disastrous decision to seek refuge in Stalin’s Soviet Union. The vast majority of these refugee scholars were arrested, murdered, or forced to flee the Soviet Union during the Great Terror. Many of the survivors then found themselves embroiled in the Holocaust. Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin explores the forced migration of these displaced academics from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union. The book follows the lives of thirty-six scholars through some of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. It reveals that not only did they endure the chaos that engulfed central Europe in the decades before Hitler came to power, but they were also caught up in two of the greatest mass murders in history. David Zimmerman examines how those fleeing Hitler in their quests for safe harbour faced hardship and grave danger, including arrest, torture, and execution by the Soviet state. Drawing on German, Russian, and English sources, Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin illustrates the complex paths taken by refugee scholars in flight.
Streets Without Joy
Blending historical research with policy analysis, Innes investigates how the concept of sanctuary shaped Washington's own understanding of how warfare should be conducted, against conventional and unconventional opponents alike.
At War on the Gothic Line
An enthralling history of an oft-forgotten battlefield of World War II brought to life by the recollections of the Allies, Axis and partisan forces who fought on the Gothic Line. As the Allies stormed across Normandy in late summer 1944, another strategically vital yet unsung campaign was being fought across the mountainous terrain of northern Italy. A vast international army of 12 different nationalities had to break through the Gothic Line, a rugged barrier of German defensive positions that stretched from the Adriatic coast to the Mediterranean. In this fast-paced narrative of a year at war, veteran foreign correspondent and historian Christian Jennings provides an unprecedented look inside these crucial, bloody battles, through the eyes of 13 men and women from seven different countries, bringing history and war to life in this unmissable book.
The Glass Mountain
The bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches returns with a gripping, vividly told journey into his family's wartime past 'In this rich, engrossing book, Gaskill succeeds in his aim of writing ‘a story that in good conscience feels real’... As I finished his book, I began to see my own family’s past through his glass mountain' - Ian Ellison, Literary Review 'Gaskill's account is as much about what cannot be known about the past as what can still be reconstructed, even as the last witnesses to the Second World War pass from sight... his ability to explore the overgrown byways of history almost as a form of travel writing is again winningly on show here' - James Owen, The Sunday Tim...
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume IV
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume IV aims to provide as much basic information as possible about individual camps and other detention facilities. Why were they established? Who ran them? What kinds of prisoners did they hold? What kinds of work did the prisoners do, and for whom? What were the conditions like? The entries detail the sources from which the authors drew their material, so future scholars can expand upon the work. Finally, and perhaps most important, this is a work of memorialization: it preserves the histories of places where people suffered and died. Volume IV examines an under-researched segment of the larger N...
The Spectator
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