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Verführte Jugend
Tectum Verlag 2011; US$ 11.00Hauptbeschreibung Der Jugendkatechismus Youcat soll den Nachwuchs der katholischen Kirche weltweit auf Linie bringen. Und in 25 Sprachen übersetzt soll er für die katholische Kirche besonders unter Kindern und Jugendlichen Menschen fischen. Allein zum Weltjugendtag in Madrid wurde er 700.000-mal verteilt. Was Jugendliche oder Gläubige aber nicht... more...
Crossing the Borders of Time: a true story of war, exile, and a love reclaimed
Scribe Publications 2012; US$ 24.99France, 1941. Janine, a Jewish teenager, and Roland, her Catholic boyfriend, are passionately in love, and believe that nothing can come between them. But World War II intervenes, and Janine is forced to flee the Nazis with her family. They set sail from the docks of Marseille on one of the last ships to take Jews to safety. For 50 years, the last... more...
Escape from Hong Kong
Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2012; US$ 38.00On 25 December 1941, the day of Hong Kongs surrender to the Japanese, Admiral Chan Chak the Chinese governments chief agent in Hong Kong and more than 60 Chinese, British and Danish intelligence, naval and marine personnel made a dramatic escape from the invading army. They travelled on five small motor torpedo boats ... more...
Athenia Torpedoed
Naval Institute Press 2012; US$ 29.95This book is an account of a disaster at sea, the sinking by a German submarine of the passenger liner Athenia sailing from Liverpool to Montreal, loaded with Americans, Canadians, and Europeans, attempting to cross the Atlantic before the outbreak of war. Although 112 people were lost, of whom 30 were the first Americans killed in the war, 1,306... more...
Remembering: Voices of the Holocaust
Basic Books 2009; US$ 18.00A unique oral history of the entire span of the Holocaust based on interviews from the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum and the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. more...
Indestructible
Da Capo Press 2009; US$ 22.95This is a hard-hitting and unforgettable memoir of Jack Lucas, the youngest Medal of Honor recipient of the twentieth century more...
The Bedford Boys
Da Capo Press 2008; US$ 16.99Gripping... It's through books like this that those brave men, who fought so others could be free, live on. -- Dallas Morning News more...
Tragedy at Dieppe
D&M Publishers 2012; US$ 37.95With its trademark "you are there" style, Mark Zuehlke 's tenth Canadian Battle Series volume tells the story of the 1942 Dieppe raid. Nicknamed "The Poor Man's Monte Carlo," Dieppe had no strategic importance, but with the Soviet Union thrown on the ropes by German invasion and America having just entered the war, Britain was under intense pressure... more...
Diaries of Exile
Archipelago Books 2013; US$ 15.00Harrowing, sorrowful poems written in prison by one of Greece's most important twentieth-century poets. more...









