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17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History
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Include books by the same authorPrinces at War: The Bitter Battle Inside Britain's Royal Family in the Darkest Days of WWII
Deborah Cadbury · 400 pages
A very unusual biography of the four brothers of the royal family during the Abdication crisis of 1936 as well as the war years until the death of George VI. Traces the self confidence and loyalties of the King and the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent from light hearted young men to their responsibilities in marriage and as soldiers and leaders of men. The war is seen as a tragedy for their cousins in
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Herbert P. Bix · 800 pages
Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix shows what it was like to be trained from bir
The Nazi Hunters
Andrew Nagorski · 416 pages
"Describes the small group of men and women who sought out former Nazis all over the world after the Nuremberg trials, refusing to let their crimes be forgotten or allowing them to quietly live inconspicuous, normal lives."--NoveList.
Churchill: A Biography
Roy Jenkins · 1,020 pages
"Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost sixty years, he might be remembered only as a minor player in the drama of British government had it not been for World War II. In this magisterial book, Roy Jenkins's command of the political history of Britain and his own high-level government experience combine in a narr
Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel, Nazi Agent
Hal Vaughan
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Annie Jacobsen · 614 pages
In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States. Many of these men were accused of war crimes,
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
Lisa Rogak · 240 pages
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Gordon W. Prange · 912 pages
"Fifty years after the attack that plunged America into World War II, 'At Dawn We Slept' remains the greatest account of Pearl Harbor ever written. This gripping study scrupulously reconstructs the Japanese attack, from its conception (less than a year before the actual raid) to its lightning execution; and it reveals the true reason for the American debacle: the insurmountable disbelief in the Ja
Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
Neal Bascomb · 408 pages
Written using archival research and interviews with those involved, this is the story of the most dramatic and significant of all Nazi man-hunts: the global hunt and capture, in 1960, of Adolf Eichmann, operational manager of the gas-chamber genocides.
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard · 368 pages
General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident--and may very well have been an act of assassination. "Killing Patton" takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton's tragic demise, naming names of the m
Family Of Spies
Christine Kuehn
The story of a family that worked as Japanese and Nazi spies during World War II.
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
Jennet Conant · 403 pages
When Roald Dahl, a dashing young ex-RAF pilot, took up his post at the British Embassy in Washington, his assignment was to use his good looks, wit, and considerable charm to gain access to the most powerful figures in American political life. Dahl would soon be caught up in a web of deception masterminded by Intrepid, Churchill's legendary spy chief. In an account better suited to a work of s
Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue
Kathryn J. Atwood · 266 pages
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932
William Manchester · 896 pages
Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII
Karen Lindsey · 262 pages
Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household
Kate Hubbard · 417 pages
Serving Victoria follows the lives of six members of her household, from the governess to the royal children, from her maid of honor to her chaplain and her personal physician -- Front jacket flap.
King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led The World To War
Catrine Clay · 432 pages
The Other Tudors: Henry VIII's Mistresses and Bastards
Philippa Jones · 327 pages
Everybody thinks they know the tale of King Henry VIII's wives: divorced, beheaded died; divorced, beheaded, survived. But behind this familiar story, lies a far more complex truth. This book brings together for the first time the 'other women' of King Henry VIII. When he first came to the throne, Henry VIII's mistresses were dalliances, the playthings of a powerful and handsome man. However, when
The Private Lives of the Tudors
Tracy Borman · 456 pages
An examination behind the public faces of the Tudor monarchs draws on material from their most intimate courtiers to illuminate details about their private worlds, from what they ate and the clothes they wore to how they were treated while sick.
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
Robert K. Massie · 314 pages
In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar room where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. But were these the bones of the Romanovs? And if these were their remains, where were the bones of the two younger Romanovs supposedly murdered with the rest of the family? Was Anna
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The War Of The Roses
Sarah Gristwood · 408 pages
"In Pembroke Castle, on 28 January 1457, the 13-year-old Margaret Beaufort gave birth to a son she named Henry. Her husband was already dead; her sufferings in childbirth were grave... England was in the grip of civil war - the War of the Roses. Known to contemporaries as 'The Cousins War', beyond the fields of battle raged a family feud, a violent and emotional domestic drama. For the noble women
The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown
Claire Ridgway · 348 pages
Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens from Eleanor of Aquitaine to Elizabeth of York
Lisa Hilton · 536 pages