Second World War – Page 2 – Couldn't I Just Tell You

Review: Breakout At Stalingrad – Heinrich Gerlach

Written by one who was actually there

Review: Auschwitz A History – Sybille Steinbacher

Posted on 06/10/201910/01/2020 by Speesh in History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Holocaust

They knew

Review: The Nazi Hunters – Andrew Nagorski

Posted on 03/07/201917/11/2024 by Speesh in History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Holocaust

It wasn't all just Simon Wiesenthal

Review: Stalingrad – Antony Beevor

Posted on 11/11/2018 by Speesh in Fiction, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War

The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia

Review: The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting. Wannsee and The Final Solution – Mark Roseman

Posted on 30/09/2018 by Speesh in History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Holocaust

On 20 January 1942 the most murderous meeting in history took place

Review: Masters of Death. The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust – Richard Rhodes

Posted on 28/06/201827/08/2018 by Speesh in Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Holocaust

These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final Solution. They murdered more than 1.5 million men, women, and children between 1941 and 1943, often by shooting them into killing pits, as at Babi Yar.