Almost all accounts of D-Day are told from the Allied perspective, with the emphasis on how German resistance was overcome on June 6, 1944. But what was it like to be a German soldier in the bunkers and gun emplacements of the Normandy coast, facing the onslaught of the mightiest seaborne invasion in history? What motivated the German defenders, what were their thought processes - and how did they fight from one strong point to another, among the dunes and fields, on that first cataclysmic day?

This gripping story of one man’s involvement in RAF Bomber Command’s fledgling offensive was first published in 1943. Written only months after the events described, R. C. Rivaz provides a uniquely fresh and immediate perspective on some of the most harrowing episodes of the war.

Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, was as good a rifle company as any in the world. From their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to D-Day and victory, Ambrose tells the story of this remarkable company, which kept getting the tough assignments. Easy Company was responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. Band of Brothers is the account of the men of this remarkable unit.

Ein Mann im Inneren des Krieges. 1944: John Glueck ist im Krieg. Vor kurzem noch war er Student in New York, voller Liebe zur deutschen Kultur seiner Vorfahren. Dann, als Offizier der Propaganda- Abteilung der U. S. Army, traf er in Frankreich sein Idol Ernest Hemingway. Für ihn zieht Glueck in den scheinbar unbedeutenden, doch von der Wehrmacht eisern verteidigten Hürtgenwald in der Eifel. Er entdeckt das Geheimnis des Waldes, als eine der größten Katastrophen des Zweiten Weltkrieges beginnt: die "Allerseelenschlacht" mit über 15 000 Toten.

In 1307, as they struggled to secure their last strongholds in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Templars fell afoul of the vindictive and impulsive king of France. On Friday, October 13, hundreds of brothers were arrested en masse, imprisoned, tortured, and disbanded amid accusations of lurid sexual misconduct and heresy. They were tried by the Vatican in secret proceedings. But were they heretics or victims of a ruthlessly repressive state?