True War

What is war really like? Here are stories of sacrifices and massacres, of battles fought on horseback and in the trenches, at sea and on land. Find out about the savage school teacher who betrayed his students to the Roman soldiers, the American hero who led his country to independence only to be abandoned after the battle was won, and the football game between two fierce enemies that halted the First World War for a day. Discover how people survive in times of war in these incredible but true war stories.

Berlin, 1938. It’s no longer safe here. When the Jewish families of Berlin start disappearing in nightly raids, 21-year-old Jacob Kagan knows it’s only a matter of time before the trucks come for him. Along with his family and best friend, he flees the country he’s always called home to find shelter in a Dutch refugee camp. Before long, the Netherlands falls to the Nazi war machine — Jacob’s new home is transformed into a transit camp with weekly trains bound for the horrors of the Eastern concentration camps.

Family Business: Gier, Geld, Geheimnisse erzählt die Geschichten großer Familien und schillernder Dynastien. Die Schwestern Anna Dushime und Amélia Umuhire geben Einblicke in das Innere von Familien, die über Jahrzehnte oder gar Jahrhunderte Unternehmen und Imperien gelenkt haben. Denn die ganz großen Dramen der Weltgeschichte um Macht, Geld und Einfluss spielen sich nicht selten in Familien ab.

Robert K. Brigham has had a substantial career as a historian of the Vietnam War, with a hand in nine books, a documentary, public history projects, and more. While many a historian has felt compelled at some point to write about a subject close to them personally, Brigham did not think he was doing that. But, at age 58, Brigham, who had long known he was adopted, discovered that he’d improbably and unknowingly been studying and talking about his real father for decades.

In early June 1967, Marine Corps recruits from Minneapolis-St. Paul and outlying Minnesota received a letter stating all those scheduled for active duty in June would go as one platoon on June 28, 1967. One hundred fifty Marine applicants would be shipped to San Diego, California, to the recruit training depot. The Minnesota Twins baseball team was sponsoring the unit. They were sworn in on television at a pregame ceremony and were guests of the Twins at the game.

In Vienna, 1919, a gaunt, silver-haired man knocks on his sister's door. She refuses to open it. As far as the family knows, Chaim Zeidler died years ago on a battlefield in Galicia—they sat shiva, they mourned him, they let him go. So when he calls his own name through the wood, she screams that he's a dibbuk: a ghost come back to haunt the living. He isn't. He survived.

Dr. Emmaline Cartwright is about to retire as a professor of history from an Eastern Ontario University. Though she’s led a successful career, she lingers in regret with an unfulfilled dream she’s held for herself for many years. Her sense of restlessness feels like an inner wound...

Some secrets don’t stay buried. When five-year-old Mark Paine Fisher lost his father, Captain Robert T. Paine, USAF, in a 1966 plane crash in West Texas, he was told it was a tragedy. A small aircraft. A training flight. A young father who never came home. For decades, that was the story. But grief has a way of leaving clues. Nearly sixty years later, family silence, missing records, and unanswered questions pull Mark into a Cold War mystery he was never supposed to uncover.

If only she had been a boy. What good is being fearless and wild at heart when her family’s rigid demands are suffocating her? Mary has an insatiable desire to break free, but in the upper echelon of Maltese society, repressed and painfully Catholic in 1937, there is no escape from her insulated, structured existence. A talented ballerina, she dreams of dancing and flying airplanes but instead is forced into marriage by her mother, her only other option to become a nun. When Mussolini drops his bombs relentlessly on the small yet mighty British colony of Malta, life is turned upside down.

A forgotten mansion. A wartime secret. What lies behind the door of the Cornish house? Cornwall, 1944: As her beloved brother fights the Nazis in Europe, Mary Trewallis works tirelessly on the makeshift hospital wards for injured servicemen that have taken over her family's grand ancestral home...

In 1942, the Nazis came for a Jewish family living in Montparnasse, occupied Paris. In the chaos, the eleven-year-old daughter ran to the only person she could trust, her piano teacher, Andrée Levallois, secretly a French Resistance operative. Andrée took her in, risking everything. But the authorities were closing in, and soon Andrée and the girl were caught in a desperate race to stay alive. Andrée was denounced, arrested, tortured and sent to the hell of Ravensbrück Women's Concentration Camp.

"Louise Brealey is an excellent reader who gives Cilka a thoughtful, sympathetic voice." -- Jersey's Best This program includes a bonus conversation with the author. From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on an incredible true...

Four housewives. One quiet street. A Cold War secret that could destroy everything. In a town built around America’s most secretive nuclear site, housewife Betty Mahoney knows the rules: don’t ask questions, and don’t listen too closely. But when the Beckers move in, Betty and the other...

The Tattooist of Auschwitz is one of the bestselling books of the 21st Century. Now, in this essential companion, Heather Morris presents an inspiring manual for life, with a series of tales of the remarkable people she has met, the incredible stories they have shared with her, and the lessons...

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From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb. Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets been as vital as they...