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Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War
In this definitive new biography, Carol Ann Lee provides the answer to one of the most heartbreaking questions of modern times: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis? Probing this startling act of treachery, Lee brings to light never before documented information about Otto Frank and the individual who would claim responsibility -- revealing a terrifying relationship that lasted until the day Frank died. Based upon impeccable research into rare archives and filled with excerpts from the secret journal that Frank kept from the day of his liberation until his return to the Secret Annex in 1945, this landmark biography at last brings into focus the life of a little-understood man -- whose story illuminates some of the most harrowing and memorable events of the last century.
Based on newly-discovered, secret documents from German archives,
diaries and newspapers of the time, Gun Control in the Third Reich
presents the definitive, yet hidden history of how the Nazi regime
made use of gun control to disarm and repress its enemies and
consolidate power. The countless books on the Third Reich and the
Holocaust fail even to mention the laws restricting firearms
ownership, which rendered political opponents and Jews defenseless.
A skeptic could surmise that a better-armed populace might have
made no difference, but the National Socialist regime certainly did
not think so - it ruthlessly suppressed firearm ownership by
disfavored groups. Gun Control in the Third Reich spans the two
decades from the birth of the Weimar Republic in 1918 through
Kristallnacht in 1938. The book then presents a panorama of
pertinent events during World War II regarding the effects of the
disarming policies. And even though in the occupied countries the
Nazis decreed the death penalty for possession of a firearm, there
developed instances of heroic armed resistance by Jews,
particularly the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
A TRUE CELEBRATION OF HEROISM AND BRAVERY From America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of World War II in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945. The author himself drew this authoritative narrative account from his five acclaimed books about that conflict, to yield what has been called "the best single-volume history of the war that most of us will ever read."
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