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Drawing from newly declassified documents, the author chronicles the story of codebreaking during the last world war, from cat-and-mouse games with Nazi U-boats to the invasion of Normandy. 436 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

"After years of losses, the tide finally turns--beginning in Russia with the epic battle for Stalingrad and the German retreat. Then, in Africa, the Allied armies defeat Rommel's Afrika Korps. On mainland Europe, the Allies finally gain significant ground with the invasion of Italy and that county's eventual surrender. Rare facsimile documents include General Montgomery's orders for the Battle of El ...

A collection of articles published previously, produced on the occasion of Jäckel's 60th birthday. Three of them (pp. 69-101) discuss different aspects of the "historians' debate" in regard to the Holocaust. He doubts the importance of the question of the Holocaust's uniqueness, which does not in any case reduce the extent of the crime. Criticizes Fest's and Nolte's arguments, and shows that the extermination ...

Testimony, handwritten, three pages, about life in Minsk region of Belarus, German invasion, service in Red Army, capture as POW in 1944, life in Hammerstein camp and as forced laborer in Ulm, and liberation.

Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, entitled "My Story," by Helen Lewi (later Helen Martel), originally of Sosnowiec, Poland. In the memoir, she describes her childhood, the invasion of Poland, the 1942 deportations, life in the ghetto, her deportation (without her family) to a labor camp in Zillerthal-Erdmannsdorf in 1943, deportation to an unknown concentration camp in 1944, and deportation to the ...

Contains George Freshman's typewritten memoir, four pages, describing life in Grojec, Poland before and after the German invasion; conditions in the Grojec, Warsaw and Bialobzegi ghettos; his deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp and subsequent transfers to Radom concentration camp, to Weihingen, Unterrichsingen Unterriexingen and Kochendorf labor camps, and to Dachau concentration camp where ...

The collection contains prewar photographs of Adam Leczycki (born Abram Leczycki) and his family in Łódź, Poland, and postwar photographs of him in Israel.

This is the true story of an American youth, John Alexander, who, upon his high school graduation in 1940, joined his parents and his sister on a vacation to the Island of Crete to visit his father's parents. The vacation on this beautiful Mediterranean island was overshadowed by the war that spread southward from the European continent to engulf Greece and subsequently Crete in the first airborne ...