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The strange circumstances surrounding the death of the world chess champion and alleged Nazi collaborator Alexander Alekhine, as investigated by a literary grand master On the morning of March 24, 1946, the world chess champion Alexander Alekhine-"sadist of the chess world," renowned for his eccentric behavior as well as the ruthlessness of his playing style-was found dead in his hotel room in Estoril, Portugal. He was fully dressed and wearing an...

A war bond tour full of eager young women. A sunny town with a dark underbelly. When the Florida Girls start shooting back, will anyone survive? St. Petersburg, Florida, 1944. Thelma Miles can't stomach injustice. Broke and orphaned near the close of WWII, the 18-year-old joins a troupe of touring swimsuit models, only to find she's stepped into the mafia's lair. Kathleen Young has a one-track mind, often missing the obvious. Determined to get her...

Donald Krasno (1921–2005) served in World War II in the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Fifteenth Air Force, 5th Photo Group Reconnaissance, 4th Photo Technical Squadron, as a Photo Laboratory Technician in Italy from 1944–1945. While in Italy, he took hundreds of photos and collected even more. This book features 175 photos selected from his album of over 500 photos of life in post-Liberation Italy-fellow soldiers, officers, and townspeople...

A poignant collection of letters from World War II soldiers, accompanied by photographs. Writers from twenty Allied and Axis countries are gathered in this unique collection of letters from servicemen and -women to their friends, families, and sweethearts. World War II Letters gives an unbiased look into the lives of those who served throughout the world-in Europe, the Pacific, Northern Africa, and Asia-and gives an intimate and honest portrayal...

"The Waltz of Devil's Creek is a poignant and memorable tale that outshines the standard conventions of its genre." – The Booklife Prize--Judith Campbell is dying, and she cannot take the painful truth about where her son came from to the grave with her. While on her deathbed in Atlanta, Georgia in 1994, Judith tells him the tragic story of his conception, and which of two men his birth father could be: the young man who professed his love to her,...

December 7, 1941 "A day that will live in infamy," is how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt described the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. With a devastating stroke, World War II was no longer a strictly European war; it was now our war, too. In this powerful, exciting sequel to Battle Lines, James Reasoner shows us the fight through four friends cast into the chaos of the war that reshaped the twentieth century. As the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor,...

In April 1945, Soviet forces descended on Berlin in the final phase of the war in Europe. The fighting was fierce as soldiers fanatically loyal to the Nazi party - and those afraid of the vengeance their opponents might enact - sought to stave off the end of the regime as long as possible. Even as it became clear that defeat was inevitable, Hitler and his subordinates determined to fight to the bitter end, resulting in a bitter, brutal end to the...

It's 1938, and Europe teeters on the precipice of World War II. The main western allies, Britain and France, beset with fear of a second continental war, procrastinate and appease the Führer in his demands.With the fall of Austria come terrible pogroms against the Jews, political opponents and the gay community.Kurt codename "Chameleon" is sent to Prague just before the 1938 Munich Crisis, to obtain information on a mole working inside General Keitel's...

Stranded after an impossible rescue mission into the heart of the Third Reich, Vince LaSalle runs the race of his life. Hunted by the sociopathic Nazi, Artur Kolinski, the black soldier has nowhere to hide. Failure, however, is not an option. Both he and the recovered information he carries must make it home…anything less will mean that Vince is dead and the documents so vital to the allied cause have once again fallen into the hands of men who...

In a world at war, can a husband and father bring his family together again?-The Krieg tore Europe apart, shattering countless families in the process. Separated from his family and forced to become a Nazi soldier, Aldous Schneider endures horrors under Hitler's rule for the sake of his wife and children, whose fates are unknown. But when faced with an impossible choice between following orders and saving his children, Aldous makes a dangerous split-second...