Despite the quantity of material written about the Combined Bomber Offensive during the Second World War, the full human dimension of air combat has not been thoroughly explored. This book investigates the unique nature of aerial warfare and the men who took part. It analyses aircrew selection, reaction to combat, adaptability to stress, morale, leadership and combat effectiveness. First-hand reflections ...

"Civil Courage: A Response to Contemporary Conflict and Prejudice, a compilation of essays by contributors from around the world, is organized in four sections. Moral Choices: Why did the Nazis not respond with horror and revulsion to the killing of other humans? Why, in recent times, have we failed to respond with urgency to contemporary genocide and genocidal acts? Martin Doerry, Ronald Headland, ...

'In the early 1930s, life for the Jews is on the brink of ruin: Hitler has come to power, and the golden memories of happy times are fading fast. One young couple, Margret and Heinz Lichtenstern, decide to flee Germany with their parents and daughter, Tutti. They move to Amsterdam, where Heinz is able to coninue his work ... and where there seems to be hope for the future. Two years later, Tutti's ...

Not quite a year after graduating from the Massachusetts Nautical School (MNS) on September 23, 1941, and just ten months into World War II, Capt. George Duffy's good fortune came to an end, when his ship, the American Leader, was sunk by a German commerce raider. George and forty-six of his shipmates were plucked out of the South Atlantic Ocean and taken prisoner. This book relates his two spartan ...

Collectie 868: Scheepstra, L. 1. L. Scheepstra 1.2. Onderscheidingen

Who are the rescuers, the men and women whose gripping personal narratives make up the core of this remarkable book? Why did they risk everything - their livelihoods, their homes, their lives, and even those of their families - to save Jews marked for death during the Holocaust? Are they ordinary people, as they themselves claim, or truly heroic? Malka Drucker and Gay Block spent three years visiting ...

Collectie 249-1217: Dossier - Overvallen - Nederlandsche Bank Almelo

"In this brilliant reconstruction of that momentous year, courage is the highlight: courage in victory as in the Battle of Britain, in defeat as at Dunkirk and in the streets as flames raged round St. Paul's Cathedral in Christmas week. Hitler's mounting triumphs provide the sombre background, the darkness lifting only faintly towards the end of the year when the United States, still far from direct ...

For Phia Berghout

159 pages ; 17 cm

Engels gesproken, Nederlands ondertiteld. - Titel op film: Secret courage : The story of Walter Suskind and the Jewish children of Amsterdam. 1 dvd-video (ca. 80 min.) : zw/w, kleur, geluid.

Jules de Vries

12 onderscheidingen, emblemen en draagtekens uit de nalatenschap van Jan Willem Stam (Echteld, 7-5-1918 - 19-5-2004). Verzetsdeelnemer. -Britse onderscheiding (Kings Medal for Courage), in donkerblauwe cassette met gouden opdruk [Kings Medal for Courage]. In de cassette zit de onderscheiding: zilveren medaille met aan de voorzijde ene afbeelding van het hoofd van Koning George VI, met kroon op het ...

Plea for recognition by America of Filippino loyalty and courage during Japanese occupation. "First edition." xi pages, 1 leaf, 273 pages 22 cm

Oral history interviews with Dutch rescuers conducted by Mark Klempner as primary source research for his 2007 book, "The Heart has Reasons: Holocaust rescuers and their stories of courage."

Celina and Leonard Rose donated the testimony of Celina Rose to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in April 2020. The recording was produced in Australia by B’nai B’rith Courage to Care (Vic).