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A fictionalized account of the terror that engulfed the Jewish people of Kovno, Lithuania, when the Germans invaded the city in 1941. "Intended for young teenagers." 324 pages ; 22 cm

"The Gestapo was Hitler's secret police force. Popularly depicted as a central part of an all-powerful 'Big Brother' Nazi totalitarian police state, its primary aim was to hunt down 'the enemies of the people'. Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing stories of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 432. Release date, 09/10/1945. According to UN advance information: "Hiroshima-Atomic Bomb Target No. 1" When Col. Paul Tibbetts, Jr. winged his Superfortress over Hiroshima, that metropolis became the first target city for the new destructive terror--the Atomic Bomb. This single bomb, equal to 20,000 tons of TNT in explosive power, levelled 70% of the city, killed ...

Dachau and the SS studies the concentration camp guards at Dachau, the first SS concentration camp and a national 'school' of violence for its concentration camp personnel. Set up in the first months of Adolf Hitler's rule, Dachau was a bastion of the Nazi 'revolution' and a key springboard for the ascent of Heinrich Himmler and the SS to control of the Third Reich's terror and policing apparatus. ...

An Army rifle company, struggles against death, depression, and cowardice during the invasion of Guadalcanal in World War II. The author presents a realistic depiction of battle where ordinary people experience a mix of murder, fear, homosexuality, dread, helplessness, frustration, meanness, terror, and emptiness.

Revised edition of "Unspeakable truths : confronting state terror and atrocity" with a new afterword entitled "An expanding universe of official truth-seeking," pages 255-267. Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-304) and index. xii, 353 pages ; 23 cm

The novel of a young boy's macabre odyssey through nazi-occupied eastern Europe. A story about the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence of love, a juxtaposition of adolescence and the most barbaric forms of fallen adult experience.

Info from the MOT story card: Even more horrible than the fate of fugitives from war is the lot of the ever increasing army of fugitives from Nazi terror. Not just Jews, but all who do not agree with Nazi doctrines are victims. Those who escape the concentration camp are hounded from land to land by Hitler's machinations. But his very tactics were to unite the democracies in protest, and in affirmation ...