Häftad, Engelska, 2007
285 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2006
170 kr
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During World War Two the Special Operation Executive's French Section sent more than 400 agents into Occupied France -- at least 100 never returned and were reported 'Missing Believed Dead' after the war. Twelve of these were women who died in German concentration camps -- some were tortured, some were shot, and some died in the gas chambers. Vera Atkins had helped prepare these women for their missions, and when the war was over she went out to Germany to find out what happened to them and the other agents lost behind enemy lines. But while the woman who carried out this extraordinary mission appeared quintessentially English, she was nothing of the sort. Vera Atkins, who never married, covered her life in mystery so that even her closest family knew almost nothing of her past. In A LIFE IN SECRETS Sarah Helm has stripped away Vera's many veils and -- with unprecedented access to official and private papers, and the cooperation of Vera's relatives -- vividly reconstructed an extraordinary life. - Häftad, Engelska, 2016
259 kr
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- E-bokEngelska, 2008
191 kr
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From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britain’s premiere secret agents during World War II.As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored special operatives whose job was to organize and arm the resistance in Nazi-occupied France. After the war, Atkins courageously committed herself to a dangerous search for twelve of her most cherished women spies who had gone missing in action. Drawing on previously unavailable sources, Sarah Helm chronicles Atkins’s extraordinary life and her singular journey through the chaos of post-war Europe. Brimming with intrigue, heroics, honor, and the horrors of war, A Life in Secrets is the story of a grand, elusive woman and a tour de force of investigative journalism.From the Trade Paperback edition. - Häftad, Engelska, 2016
191 kr
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Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded through giant gates. Whipping and kicking them were scores of German women guards. Their destination was Ravensbruck, a concentration camp designed specifically for women by Heinrich Himmler, prime architect of the Nazi genocide. For decades the story of Ravensbruck was hidden behind the Iron Curtain and today is still little known. Using testimony unearthed since the end of the Cold War, and interviews with survivors who have never spoken before, Helm has ventured into the heart of the camp, demonstrating for the reader in riveting detail how easily and quickly the unthinkable horror evolved. - E-bokEngelska, 2009
49 kr
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During World War Two the Special Operation Executive''s French Section sent more than 400 agents into Occupied France -- at least 100 never returned and were reported ''Missing Believed Dead'' after the war. Twelve of these were women who died in German concentration camps -- some were tortured, some were shot, and some died in the gas chambers. Vera Atkins had helped prepare these women for their missions, and when the war was over she went out to Germany to find out what happened to them and the other agents lost behind enemy lines. But while the woman who carried out this extraordinary mission appeared quintessentially English, she was nothing of the sort. Vera Atkins, who never married, covered her life in mystery so that even her closest family knew almost nothing of her past. In A LIFE IN SECRETS Sarah Helm has stripped away Vera''s many veils and -- with unprecedented access to official and private papers, and the cooperation of Vera''s relatives -- vividly reconstructed an extraordinary life.
- E-bokEngelska, 2015
44 kr
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Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize: A ''profoundly moving chronicle'' (Observer) that tells the story of Ravensbrück, the only concentration camp designed specifically for women, using new testimony from survivorsOn a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded through giant gates. Whipping and kicking them were scores of German women guards.Their destination was Ravensbrück, a concentration camp designed specifically for women by Heinrich Himmler, prime architect of the Nazi genocide.For decades the story of Ravensbrück was hidden behind the Iron Curtain and today is still little known. Using testimony unearthed since the end of the Cold War, and interviews with survivors who have never spoken before, Helm has ventured into the heart of the camp, demonstrating for the reader in riveting detail how easily and quickly the unthinkable horror evolved.''It not only fills a gap in Holocaust history but it is an utterly compelling read'' Taylor Downing, History Today''A sense of urgency infuses this history, which comes just in time to gather the testimony of the camp''s survivors . . . meticulous, unblinking . . . [Helm''s] book comes not a moment too soon'' The Economist
- Häftad, Engelska, 2011
184 kr
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‘I felt I should say congratulations on winning the election but I couldn’t find the words...There were suddenly three of us in our relationship.’In the weeks leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the pressure on the UK government to commit to joining the American cause was escalating. And in one Stockwell household the pressure had completely erased the line between the political and the personal – the home of Laura and her husband Nick…Tony Blair’s Chief of Staff. With the crisis coming to a head, Nick and Laura struggle to protect their relationship as Nick attempts to guide Tony Blair through one of the greatest controversies of our time. - E-bokEngelska, 2011
192 kr
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‘I felt I should say congratulations on winning the election but I couldn’t find the words...There were suddenly three of us in our relationship.’In the weeks leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the pressure on the UK government to commit to joining the American cause was escalating. And in one Stockwell household the pressure had completely erased the line between the political and the personal – the home of Laura and her husband Nick…Tony Blair’s Chief of Staff. With the crisis coming to a head, Nick and Laura struggle to protect their relationship as Nick attempts to guide Tony Blair through one of the greatest controversies of our time. - E-bokEngelska, 2015
30 kr
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In the summer of 2014 a 50-day conflict between Gaza and Israel saw the loss of over 2,200 Gazan lives, including scores of families classified as "e;erased"e;. The world looked on with a mixture of horror and indifference, and the debate about the rights and wrongs polarised around intractable pro-Israeli or pro-Gazan positions. Sarah Helm had worked in Gaza during the 1990s as a correspondent covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, developing a deep respect for the people living there. In the years after she left, violent clashes began to make the events she had reported on look like mere skirmishes. During a period of relative quiet, Sarah decided to go back to Gaza, and see for herself what had become of the place she reported from two decades ago. This eBook is her personal account of what she found ... - E-bokFinska, 2025
256 kr
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Sara Helmin Naisten keskitysleiri on palkittu historiateos, joka kertoo kertoo ainoan vain naisille suunnitellun keskitysleirin tarinan.”Syvästi koskettava historiateos.” - The Observer“Eeppinen tutkimustyön taidonnäyte.” – The SpectatorAurinkoisena aamuna toukokuussa 1939 kahdeksansataa naista marssitetaan metsän läpi viisikymmentä kilometriä Berliinistä pohjoiseen, ajetaan tyynenä kimaltelevan järven ohi ja sitten jättimäisten porttien läpi. Heitä piiskaavat ja potkivat kymmenet saksalaiset naisvartijat. Näiden kotiäitien, lääkäreiden, oopperalaulajien, poliitikkojen, prostituoitujen ja tavallisten naisten määränpää on Ravensbruck, keskitysleiri, jonka natsien kansanmurhan pääarkkitehti Heinrich Himmler oli suunnitellut erityisesti naisille.Ravensbruckin tarina oli vuosikymmeniä piilossa rautaesiripun takana, ja sitä tunnetaan yhä vähän. Sodan aikana leirille joutui 130 000 naista kaikkialta miehitetystä Euroopasta. Kuolleiden määräksi on arvioitu jopa 90 000. Ravensbruck oli paikka natsien alempiarvoisina pitämille naisille: paitsi juutalaisille myös romaneille, poliittisille vihollisille, ulkomaisille vastarintaliikkeen jäsenille, rikollisille, sairaille, vammaisille ja mielenterveysongelmista kärsiville.Kylmän sodan päättymisen jälkeen esiin kaivettujen todistajalausuntojen ja eloonjääneiden haastattelujen avulla Sarah Helm uskaltautuu leirin sydämeen. Hän osoittaa lukijalle, miten nopeasti käsittämätön kauhu kehittyi.“Loistavasti tutkittu ja valtavan koskettava . . . Helmin kirja, joka perustuu osittain eloonjääneiden haastatteluihin, on malliesimerkki herkkyydestä ja vakavuudesta.” – Sunday TimesSarah Helm on englantilainen toimittaja ja tietokirjailija, joka on työskennellyt muun muassa Sunday Timesin ja The Independentin toimittajana ja ulkomaankirjeenvaihtajana.
