For nearly two years the two most infamous dictators in history actively collaborated with one another The NaziSoviet Pact stunned the world when it was announced the Second World War was launched under its auspices with the invasion and division of Poland and its eventual collapse led to the wars defining and deciding clash It is a chapter too often skimmed over by popular histories of the Second World War and in The Devils Alliance Roger Moorhouse tells the full story of the pact between Hitler and Stalin for the first time from the motivation for its inception to its dramatic and abrupt end in 1941 as Germany declared war against its former partner Using firsthand and eyewitness testimony this is not just an account of the turbulent febrile politics underlying the unlikely collaboration between these two totalitarian regimes but of the human costs of the pact as millions of eastern Europeans fell victim to the nefarious ambitions of Hitler and Stalin

DEVILS' ALLIANCE, THE

Moorhouse, Roger

Vintage

For the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history.Disraeli once declared that “assassination never changed anything,” and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have been averted with a single bullet or bomb has remained a tantalizing one for half a century. What historian Roger Moorhouse reveals in Killing Hitler is just how close–and how often–history came to taking a radically different path between Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and his ignominious suicide.    Few leaders, in any century, can have been the target of so many assassination attempts, with such momentous consequences in the balance.  Hitler’s almost fifty would-be assassins ranged from simple craftsmen to high-ranking soldiers, from the apolitical to the ideologically obsessed, from Polish Resistance fighters to patriotic Wehrmacht officers, and from enemy agents to his closest associates.  And yet, up to now, their exploits have remained virtually unknown, buried in dusty official archives and obscure memoirs.  This, then, for the first time in a single volume, is their story.  A story of courage and ingenuity and, ultimately, failure, ranging from spectacular train derailments to the world’s first known suicide bomber, explaining along the way why the British at one time declared that assassinating Hitler would be “unsporting,” and why the ruthless murderer Joseph Stalin was unwilling to order his death. It is also the remarkable, terrible story of the survival of a tyrant against all the odds, an evil dictator whose repeated escapes from almost certain death convinced him that he was literally invincible–a conviction that had appalling consequences for millions.

Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots Against the Fuhrer

Biographies & Memoirs

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

<p>Berlin was the city at the very center of World War Two. It was the launching pad for Hitler's empire, the embodiment of his vision of a world metropolis.” Berlin was also the place where Hitler's Reich would ultimately fall. Berlin suffered more air raids than any other German city and endured the full force of a Soviet siege.</p>
<p>In <i>Berlin at War</i>, historian Roger Moorhouse uses diaries, memoirs, and interviews to provide a searing first-hand account of life and death in the Nazi capitalthe privations, the hopes and fears, and the nonconformist tradition that saw some Berliners provide underground succour to the city's remaining Jews. Combining comprehensive research with gripping narrative, <i>Berlin at War</i> is the incredible story of the cityand peoplethat saw the whole of World War Two.</p>

Berlin at War

History

Americas

Basic Books

<b>The gripping story of civilian life in Berlin during World War II -- these "complex, often deeply morally compromised personal stories of many survivors [produce] new insights into the way ordinary Berliners tried to escape the disastrous ill-fortune of living in the belly of the beast" (Financial Times).</b><br>In <i>Berlin at War</i>, acclaimed historian Roger Moorhouse provides a magnificent and detailed portrait of everyday life at the epicenter of the Third Reich. Berlin was the stage upon which the rise and fall of the Third Reich was most visibly played out. <br>It was the backdrop for the most lavish Nazi ceremonies, the site of Albert Speer's grandiose plans for a new "world metropolis," and the scene of the final climactic battle to defeat Nazism. Berlin was the place where Hitler's empire ultimately meet its end, but it suffered mightily through the war as well; not only was the city subjected to the full wrath of the Soviet ground offensive and siege in 1945, but it also found itself a prime target for the air war, attracting more raids, more aircraft, and more tonnage than any other German city. <br>Combining groundbreaking research with a gripping narrative, Moorhouse brings all of the complexity and chaos of wartime Berlin to life. <i>Berlin at War </i>is the incredible story of the city-and people-that saw the whole of this epic conflict, from start to finish.

Europe

<p>History remembers the Soviets and the Nazis as bitter enemies and ideological rivals, the two mammoth and opposing totalitarian regimes of World War II whose conflict would be the defining and deciding clash of the war. Yet for nearly a third of the conflict's entire timespan, Hitler and Stalin stood side by side as partners. The Pact that they agreed had a profound—and bloody—impact on Europe, and is fundamental to understanding the development and denouement of the war.<br><br>In <i>The Devils' Alliance</i>, acclaimed historian Roger Moorhouse explores the causes and implications of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, an unholy covenant whose creation and dissolution were crucial turning points in World War II. Forged by the German foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and his Soviet counterpart, Vyacheslav Molotov, the nonaggression treaty briefly united the two powers in a brutally efficient collaboration. Together, the Germans and Soviets quickly conquered and divided central and eastern Europe—Poland, the Baltic States, Finland, and Bessarabia—and the human cost was staggering: during the two years of the pact hundreds of thousands of people in central and eastern Europe caught between Hitler and Stalin were expropriated, deported, or killed. Fortunately for the Allies, the partnership ultimately soured, resulting in the surprise June 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union. Ironically, however, the powers' exchange of materiel, blueprints, and technological expertise during the period of the Pact made possible a far more bloody and protracted war than would have otherwise been conceivable.<br><br>Combining comprehensive research with a gripping narrative, <i>The Devils' Alliance</i> is the authoritative history of the Nazi-Soviet Pact—and a portrait of the people whose lives were irrevocably altered by Hitler and Stalin's nefarious collaboration.<br><br></p>

The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941

<p><div><b>A "chilling" and "expertly" written history of the 1939 September Campaign and the onset of World War II (<i>Times of London</i>).</b></div> <div><b><br /></b></div> <div> <div>For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Poland, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler's soldiers invaded, followed later that month by Stalin's Red Army. The conflict that followed saw the debut of many of the features that would come to define the later war-blitzkrieg, the targeting of civilians, ethnic cleansing, and indiscriminate aerial bombing-yet it is routinely overlooked by historians.</div> <div><br /></div> <div>In <i>Poland 1939</i>, Roger Moorhouse reexamines the least understood campaign of World War II, using original archival sources to provide a harrowing and very human account of the events that set the bloody tone for the conflict to come.</div> </div> <div><br /></div> <div><br /></div></p>

Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II

Reference

<p>For the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history.<br><br>Disraeli once declared that “assassination never changed anything,” and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have been averted with a single bullet or bomb has remained a tantalizing one for half a century. What historian Roger Moorhouse reveals in Killing Hitler is just how close–and how often–history came to taking a radically different path between Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and his ignominious suicide. <br><br>Few leaders, in any century, can have been the target of so many assassination attempts, with such momentous consequences in the balance. Hitler’s almost fifty would-be assassins ranged from simple craftsmen to high-ranking soldiers, from the apolitical to the ideologically obsessed, from Polish Resistance fighters to patriotic Wehrmacht officers, and from enemy agents to his closest associates. And yet, up to now, their exploits have remained virtually unknown, buried in dusty official archives and obscure memoirs. This, then, for the first time in a single volume, is their story. <br><br>A story of courage and ingenuity and, ultimately, failure, ranging from spectacular train derailments to the world’s first known suicide bomber, explaining along the way why the British at one time declared that assassinating Hitler would be “unsporting,” and why the ruthless murderer Joseph Stalin was unwilling to order his death. <br><br>It is also the remarkable, terrible story of the survival of a tyrant against all the odds, an evil dictator whose repeated escapes from almost certain death convinced him that he was literally invincible–a conviction that had appalling consequences for millions.</p>

Killing Hitler: The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death

Random House Publishing Group

Killing Hitler: The Plots, The Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death

Bantam]

History remembers the Soviets and the Nazis as bitter enemies and ideological rivals, the two opposing totalitarian regimes of World War II whose conflict would be the defining and deciding clash of the war. Yet for nearly a third of the conflict's entire timespan, Hitler and Stalin stood side by side as partners. The Pact that they agreed had a profound and bloody impact on Europe, and is fundamental to understanding the development and denouement of the war. The Devils' Alliance explores the causes and implications of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, whose creation and dissolution were crucial turning points in World War II. Forged by Joachim von Ribbentrop, and his Soviet counterpart, Vyacheslav Molotov, the nonaggression treaty briefly united the two powers in a brutally efficient collaboration. The Germans and Soviets quickly conquered and divided central and eastern Europe. Hundreds of thousands of people caught between Hitler and Stalin were expropriated, deported, or killed. Fortunately for the Allies, the partnership ultimately soured. Ironically, however, the powers' exchange of material, blueprints, and technological expertise during the period of the Pact made possible a far more bloody and protracted war than would have otherwise been conceivable. Combining comprehensive research with a gripping narrative, The Devils' Alliance is the authoritative history of the Nazi-Soviet Pact.

The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact With Stalin, 1939-1941

Tantor Audio

Tantor Media, Inc.

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DEVILS' ALLIANCE, THE

Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots Against the Fuhrer

Berlin at War

Berlin at War

The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941

Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II

Killing Hitler: The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death

Killing Hitler: The Plots, The Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death

The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact With Stalin, 1939-1941

The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact With Stalin, 1939-1941