The 1967 'Six-Day' war ended with Israel's decisive victory; conquering Jerusalem, Gaza, Sinai and the West Bank. It is a war portrayed, to this day, as a righteous undertaking; a radiant emblem of Jewish pride. One week after the war, a group of young kibbutzniks, led by renowned author Amos Oz, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The recording revealed an honest look at the moment Israel turned from David...

"In 1942, the bloody ravages of World War II are far from quiet Guernsey in the British Channel Islands. German occupation of the island seems quite civil. But war is war, and no one escapes its devastating effects. For Guernsey, it is a war of intellect and cunning that brings out the best in people and the worst. Sometimes the enemy at the door is the enemy within. And sometimes, the enemy is really a friend."--Container.

"A monumental history that finally integrates the many resistance movements against Nazi hegemony across Europe into a single, sweeping narrative. It's almost shocking to think that now, more than seventy years after the Nazi surrender in 1945, there is not a single volume that has attempted to unify the resistance movements that convulsed Europe during the brutal years of occupation. In her extraordinary work, Resistance, Halik Kochanski does just...