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Subestimada pela historiografia oficial, a aliança entre o Brasil e os Estados Unidos foi fundamental para o resultado da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Este estudo definitivo destrincha a coalizo desde o inicio, na decada de 1930, ate seu desfecho, nos anos 1970. Talvez os brasileiros se surpreendam ao saber que muito antes do ataque a base naval de Pearl Harbor, em 1941, seu pais ja era alvo de planejamento militar dos Estados Unidos. O interesse começa em 1939, com o medo crescente de que as naçes do Eixo atacassem os Aliados pelo Atlantico Sul durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Trazer as forças para o Brasil seria, portanto, a estrategia ideal para afastar a ameaça. A negociaço resultou numa aliança que se encerraria somente em 1977, sobrevivendo ao confronto mundial e as crises dos anos subsequentes.No periodo, a força estadunidense construiu dezesseis instalaçes militares no pais, entre elas a Base Aerea de Natal, a maior base norte-americana fora dos EUA, que abastecia os aliados no Oriente Medio e na Asia. O Brasil, por sua vez, formou a FEB (Força Expedicionaria Brasileira) e enviou um esquadro de caças para lutar na Italia, tornando-se a unica naço da America Latina a participar diretamente do confronto.A partir dos arquivos brasileiros e dos documentos da inteligencia americana que se tornaram publicos, Frank D. McCann demonstra como a aliança mudou o curso da Segunda Guerra e impactou, politica e culturalmente, ambas as naçes.

In July 1940, Desmond Ibbotson joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve hoping to fly Spitfires. He achieved his dream aged just 19, eventually completing 650 flying hours in seven types of Spitfire. He did two tours of operations with three of the RAFs elite squadrons in the skies over France, North Africa and Italy, was credited with eleven confirmed victories and awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar.After a dramatic active service that saw him shot down during the Battle of El Alamein, captured by Rommels forces and making a daring escape, in 1944 he was promoted and moved to instructor duties at Perugia, Italy, where he trained experienced pilots returning to the front line or converting to a new fighter type.Tragically, just over three months later, Desmond was killed during a routine test flight that November. He was buried in a military cemetery, but serious questions would remain about his death. How had such an experienced pilot crashed while undertaking such a simple flight? And, given that he had a marked grave, when a Spitfire was excavated from an Italian field sixty-two years later, why were Desmonds remains still inside?The product of over twenty years of meticulous research, On Silver Wings is a detailed study that respectfully relays the events of Desmonds short but eventful life, investigating what happened on his tragic final flight and exactly how he came to have two graves.

Caros amigos e leitores, Gostaria de compartilhar com vocês uma informação fascinante sobre nossa história como brasileiros. Por meio deste breve resumo, descobrimos que somos, na verdade, a maior co

Neste segundo volume da obra que é referência sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial, Martin Gilbert traça um caleidoscópio da guerra em toda a sua complexidade, agora a partir do ano de 1943, quando surgira

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o cinema emergiu como uma das mais potentes ferramentas de propaganda ideológica. Nos Estados Unidos, Hollywood assumiu um papel central na disseminação de narrativa

A gripping account of the cloak and dagger game played in Berlin and beyond by Britains shadow warriors. A knife-edge Cold War showdown. A game of secrets, masterfully told. Damien Lewis, Sunday Times No. 1 Bestselling AuthorThe British Commanders-in-Chief Mission to the Soviet Forces in Germany, better known as BRIXMIS, was arguably the most successful and enduring intelligence organisation of the whole Cold War. Its three-man teams maintained a permanent presence behind the Iron Curtain, patrolling East German soil every single day from 1946 until the fall of the Berlin Wall changed the face of post-war Europe.In a follow-up to The Deadly Game, Will Britten, a career Military Intelligence Officer, treats us to a fresh, and in places hard-hitting look at his experience as one of the last generations of Cold War warriors. Over the Wall details reconnaissance missions in the depths of the DDR, targeting by Stasi surveillance teams, and fascinating personal contacts with the enemy. Beyond this, he puts forward the shocking proposition that Moscow had almost certainly compromised BRIXMIS through their own agents operating within the wide US military system.Providing a rare insight into the activities of the GRU-staffed Soviet military teams deployed reciprocally in West Germany, Over the Wall ultimately poses an intriguing question: in the final balance whose missions were operationally more effective?

Uma narrativa decisiva das motivaçes e mentalidades do movimento nazi e dos seus apoiantesComo puderam os nazis cometer os crimes que cometeram? Por que razo comandantes de campos de concentraço e de morte levaram a cabo com frequencia - e, muitas vezes, entusiasticamente - assassinios em massa? Como puderam os alemes comuns tolerar as atrocidades que se perpetravam?Neste livro, o autor bestseller Laurence Rees combina testemunhos ineditos de ex-nazis e daqueles que cresceram no sistema nazi com a mais recente investigaço psicologica em obediencia e autoridade, para ajudar a responder a algumas das questes mais perturbadoras relativas a Segunda Guerra Mundial e ao Holocausto.Da politica das franjas da decada de 1920 ao triunfo eleitoral e a mobilizaço em massa da decada de 1930, passando pelo Holocausto e pelo eventual desaparecimento do regime, Laurence Rees traça a ascenso e queda das mentalidades nazis - incluindo as condiçes que permitiram o florescimento de uma ideologia to violenta e o sofisticado esforço de propaganda que a sustentou - pela lente de "12 Avisos", destacando os sinais a que devemos estar atentos nos atuais lideres.Os elogios da critica:"Um livro oportuno, relevante e importante."Sir Ian Kershaw, autor bestseller"Nunca as questes que nos atormentam sobre a conduta do Terceiro Reich foram submetidas a uma analise to funesta, brilhante, atual e reveladora."The Independent"Laurence Rees esta numa posiço unica para olhar para este periodo temporal atraves de uma nova perspetiva. Este e um trabalho brilhante: bem fundamentado, convincente e francamente aterrorizador."The Telegraph"A Mentalidade Nazi relata o modo como o nazismo atraiu e manteve os seus muitos milhes de seguidores. Mais do que um lembrete implacavel e pormenorizado dos horrores do passado, assente em decadas de investigaço exaustiva, e, inequivocamente, um desafio para analisarmos a nossa consciencia e agirmos em conformidade."Frederick Taylor, autor de O Muro de Berlim"Um estudo fascinante que oferece novas perspetivas sobre as forças psicologicas que impulsionam os nazis - leitura essencial para quem procura respostas para a assustadora questo de como e por que razo a Alemanha foi consumida pela maldade de Hitler."Julia Boyd, autora de A Village in the Third Reich"Um livro urgente e profundamente necessario. Uma historia que, como uma lanterna, ilumina o interior mais sombrio da natureza humana. Ao escavar profundamente abaixo da superficie da historia familiar, Laurence Rees mostra-nos que o dominio dos nazis no e uma historia de monstros, mas sim de humanidade reconhecivel. Um livro para o nosso tempo e para todos os tempos."Sinclair McKay, autor de Berlin e Dresden

Este livro é um registro fundamental. Não apenas pela informação que contém para as gerações futuras, mas pela pessoa que Aleksander Laks é. Ele se tornou o principal personagem em dimensão nacional

A extraordinária história da bomba atómica e os 116 dias que mudaram o mundoApós anos de conflitos sangrentos na Europa e no Pacífico, a nação norte-americana fica em choque a 12 de abril de 1945 com

The development of rocket and jet aircraft by the Germans before and during the Second World War is something that intrigues all those interested in the history of aviation. The first trials of the V1 (Doodlebug) were carried out with a pilot at the controls, on occasion the world-famous aviatrix Hannah Reitsch. The first encounter with a jet aircraft by Allied airmen is documented here, including the first shooting down of a jet aircraft by an Allied pilot.Rocket and Jet Aircraft of the Third Reich documents the huge problems faced by the German scientists, designers and engineers, and the pressures put upon them by the German High Command. At the end of the war the Americans and Russians struggled to get their hands on these experts and their data whilst the SS were trying to prevent them falling into Allied hands. Heinkel, Henschel, Junkers and of course Messerschmitt all feature, amongst other pioneering designers, alongside legendary pilots such as Adolf Galland and Walter Nowotny.

Neste trabalho rigoroso de pesquisa histórica, Eric Kurlander desfaz mitos sobre a ligação do nazismo a forças sobrenaturais ao mesmo tempo que encontra inúmeras evidências de como o Partido Nacional

Nobody knows how much I owe that man, Primo Levi said of the bricklayer who saved his life at Auschwitz-Birkenau. For six months, Lorenzo Perrone risked his own life to smuggle food, letters and clothing to prisoners. Without Perrone, Levi could not have survived and the world would have been deprived of his writing.In A Man of Few Words, Carlo Greppi pieces together the life of Perrone, a near destitute labourer with little formal education. Despite their stark differences, Levi and Perrones friendship continued until Perrones tragic death. Levi never forgot Perrone. He tried persistently to preserve the memory of this man of few words who had saved his life, but who left few traces of his own behind.Compassionate, worldly and prescient, Greppi brings to light a universal story about an individual who kept hope alive in one of the darkest times and places known to man.

Setenta anos após sua primeira publicação em húngaro, este clássico redescoberto da literatura do Holocausto recebe sua primeira edição em língua portuguesa. Um relato profundamente humano sobre o ho

Six attempts were made by German officers to kill Hitler in autumn 1943 and summer 1944. Explosives in personal gifts, assassins armed with hand grenades and pistols, and even suicide bombers with pockets full of explosives hunted the Fuhrer, who undoubtedly recognised the danger. The security arrangements around the leader of the Nazi regime were therefore enormous when, in July 1944, Officer Claus von Stauffenberg travelled to Hitlers Fuhrerbunker in East Prussia to kill first Adolf Hitler and then the entire Third Reich.Claus von Stauffenberg was not alone. He was just a pawn in a group of noble officers plan to overthrow the Nazis and then make gentle peace with the British, Russians and Americans before Germany was destroyed by its enemies. How close was the group to succeeding?

The powerful German battlecruiser Scharnhorst was stalked and engaged on 26 December 1943 by a superior Allied naval task force off the North Cape of Norway. In pitch darkness and mountainous seas, British warships, led by HMS Duke of York and HMS Belfast, engaged the Scharnhorst in a clash of the titans that saw the pride of the German Navy sent to the bottom of the Barents Sea. Of the 1,972 men on board, only 36 were saved. It was the last battle to be fought in the Atlantic between capital ships.In 2000, the Norwegian writer and investigative journalist Alf R. Jacobsen led the expedition that found and filmed the wreck of the Scharnhorst, 300 metres down in the freezing ocean inside the Arctic Circle. In Scharnhorst, he brings together the compelling story of this important naval engagement and his personal account of how he finally succeeded in locating and filming the wreck of the ill-fated battlecruiser.

Todas as frentes da guerra num só livro. Todas as frentes da guerra num só livro Esta é uma obra notável e inovadora, desde logo pela sua abordagem global. Ao contrário de outros livros sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial, Olivier Wieviorka no se limita a abordar somente as operaçes militares. O historiador, especialista em Segunda Guerra Mundial, estuda todas as frentes de batalha: a Europa, como e evidente, mas tambem o teatro de operaçes da Asia-Pacifico (tantas vezes descurado, sobretudo no que diz respeito a China) o Norte de Africa e ainda o Medio-Oriente. Interessa-se igualmente pelos diversos atores (canadianos, australianos, indianos), mas cobre nesta obra multidimensional outros dominios fundamentais para compreender estas grandes batalhas como: o estrategico, o ideologico, o economico, o logistico, o diplomatico, o geopolitico. No esquecendo ainda, a historia social e memorial, habitualmente tratada como parente pobre. Fruto de anos de investigaço este livro e um relato rigoroso. Uma narrativa viva, poderosa e empolgante que mostra ate que ponto este terrivel conflito foi realmente mundial e total. Uma obra que se empenha em relatar, compreender e explicar, fazendo sua a exigencia avançada por Albert Camus em O Homem Revoltado : Poderiamos supor que uma epoca que, em cinquenta anos, desenraiza, escraviza e mata setenta milhes de seres humanos deve somente, e antes de mais nada, ser julgada. Mas e preciso primeiro compreender a sua culpabilidade. Premio Livro de Historia Contemporanea de 2024, atribuido pela associaço francesa Lire la Societe Uma sintese magistral da Segunda Guerra Mundial Le Figaro Magazine

A história do Hotel Metropol de Moscovo - um lugar efervescente de intrigas e segredos, e o centro da nefasta propaganda de Estaline durante a Segunda Guerra MundialEm 1941, o exército alemão marchav

Durante a ocupação nazista nos Países Baixos, três jovens holandesas - Hannie Schaft e as irmãs Truus e Freddie Oversteegen - se unem ao Conselho de Resistência para sabotar planos alemães e eliminar

As World War II raged across the Russian steppes, in Africa and especially in the skies over Europe, elite German and Soviet forces fought a bitter battle in an isolated northern corner of Europe. Here, the battle was for control of the ice-free port of Murmansk, where the Soviet Union received convoy after convoy loaded with British and American tanks, guns, fuel, small arms, food and aircraft. Supplies from the Allied convoys kept the Soviet Union alive at a critical time during the early stages of the war, and Hitler therefore tried every means to stop the convoys. At the beginning of the campaign against the Soviet Union, he hoped to capture Murmansk and thus weaken his archenemy. Later, when he realised that fighting in the barren, mountainous terrain of the north was unwinnable, he set his sights on destroying the convoys. The Luftwaffe and U-boats attacked the Allied sailors throughout the perpetual daylight of polar summer while crushing ice and raging storms threatened during the dark winter months. The men aboard the Arctic convoys dreaded the voyages, and it was with good reason that the crews dubbed them "suicide convoys". If they fell overboard in a storm, a quick death awaited them in the icy sea, and if the ships holds, filled with fuel and ammunition, were hit by a torpedo or a bomb, everything exploded in a sea of flames.The Arctic convoy trips and the fighting on the Northern Front challenged some of the wars toughest men. Read their stories here.

Britains finest hourIn the summer of 1940, darkness was falling over Europe. The Soviet Union had formed an unholy alliance with Nazi Germany. Norway was all but occupied. And France would soon be overrun by Germans. In July, only Great Britain remained as the last defence against Europe under the swastikas brutal arms.But Britain was no longer the invincible empire that had subjugated more than a fifth of the Earths landmass over the previous 400 years, and the Battle of Britain would prove to be the British Empires last moment of glory.Led by Winston Churchill, the British rediscovered the virtues that had made a humble people the rulers of the world. Ingenuity, resourcefulness and above all indomitable courage enabled the Royal Air Force to take on the Luftwaffe and hold off the Germans. In June 1940, Winston Churchill called the battle Britains "finest hour", and he was right. The British Empire would not survive for long after World War II, but the Battle of Britain was its magnificent swansong, and the thousands of British lives lost saved Europe from Nazi tyranny.