Content tagged with “world-war-two”

There are 5 item(s) tagged with “world-war-two” on this site.

Other tags used by these items: history, fiction, hitler, stalin, faith, biography, germany, russia

All the Light We Cannot See
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
August 25, 2019
Words
67

“Shockingly good novel that will make for an Oscar-winning movie one day. It follows three separate narrative threads during World War II – a young radio operator in Hitler’s army, a blind girl forced out of Paris by the Germans, and a Nazi officer with terminal cancer – as they slowly, inevitably…”

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
June 13, 2021
Words
275

“Meticulously-researched biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian who became an outspoken resistor of the Nazis, and an eventual plotter in Hitler’s assassination, for which he was executed just before the Allies would have reached him. The book really doubles as a history of the rise…”

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Section
Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
August 22, 2022
Words
92

“This was the 1939 agreement between Hitler (Germany) and Stalin (Russia) where they agreed to non-aggression and to divide Poland between them. (It was named for the Foreign Ministers of both countries.) The areas of Poland that were invaded ended up with Russia after the war, and are now in…”