It began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. By the time it came to an end on V-J Day--August 14, 1945--it had involved every major power and become global in its reach. In the final accounting, it would turn out to be, in both human terms and material resources, the costliest war, taking the lives of forty million people.

A comprehensive and compelling history of the resistance movements that operated in every German-occupied nation between 1939 and 1944. Provides descriptions of all the national movements in one volume. Features organizational overviews, personal studies of resistance figures, and descriptions of key resistance operations. Considers little-known, smaller resistance movements, primarily Jewish and Communist efforts. Reveals stories of resistance among...

"A group portrait of six revolutionary women writers during World War II. 'I am going to Spain with the boys,' Martha Gellhorn wrote. 'I don't know who the boys are but I am going with them.' On the front lines of the Second World War, the lives of six remarkable women intertwined: Lee Miller, the Vogue cover model and photographer who lived in Paris as Man Ray's lover before becoming a war correspondent for the magazine; Martha Gellhorn, the third...