For the past fifty years the Iron Curtain and the Cold War have prevented the truth from being told about one of the most enduring mysteries of the twentieth century: how, exactly, Adolf Hitler died on April 30, 1945, and what happened to his remains.  Meer

Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world.  Meer

In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world's largest peasant economy into ';socialist modernity,' otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost.  Meer

When Helene Munson finally reads her father, Hans Dunker's, wartime journal, she discovers secrets he kept buried for seven decades. This is no ordinary historical document but a personal account of devastating trauma.  Meer

The most effective German division fighting in the WestDescribes how the division continually battled the Allied offensivesUses new materials from...  Meer

'Fortresses must carry out the same tasks as the fortresses of old.  Meer

In 1940 British forces were withdrawn from the Channel Islands, allowing the Germans to occupy British territory.  Meer

From 1942 until the end of the war in Europe, the aircraft of RAF Bomber Command and the United States' 8th and 15th Air Forces maintained a twenty-four hour, round-the-clock' bombing offensive against the Third Reich.  Meer

This gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States.  Meer