Recounted in an intimate and personal style, Escaping Hitler immerses the reader in an extraordinary chapter of contemporary Jewish history both inside Germany and South America. I really enjoyed reading the text in the book and especially the little boxes that explained what happened and what the outcome was for each individual.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Today, 22nd March 2017, is the 75th Anniversary of the deportation of over 300 Jewish people by the Nazis, from the Rhineland city of Koblenz, to their ultimate murders in the death camps in Poland. During this period, Hitler was still surrounded by his personal staff, from cleaners and cooks to his personal telephone operator, his stenographers and secretaries, his guards, his chosen ministers with, in some cases, their families and a range of military officers including a number of his senior generals. He was joined by an SAS team who took on the German army in Operation Galia and then, exhausted and pursued by the enemy, made a perilous escape across the Apennine Mountains in Italy. Instead of wallowing in misery and becoming embittered by his experiences, he embraced life and love.

The next peak in emigration followed the “Kristallnacht”, or November pogrom, which raged through the whole of Germany during the night of 10 November 1938. The morning papers led with photographs of vast crowds, many dressed in red, white and blue, celebrating in London the previous evening.During the 1930s government policy remained focused on sending refugees on to other countries as far as possible. Joe would be thrilled to see his obituary, alongside other luminaries, inside a national newspaper…. This may result in small marks to the dustjacket and title page, please also bear in mind that each signature will be a little different from the one we show here. The following evening radio programmes were interrupted with the news that the German Army had surrendered in Italy.

I owe my ongoing writing and public speaking careers to his generosity, amazing memory and zest for life. Some of the most extraordinary stories of courage and endurance in the Second World War concern the freedom trails, the dangerous escape routes out of Nazi Occupied Europe. A super glossy book, filled with colour photos of the locations as they are today, and mono ones of what they looked like at the time, this is your guide to the last days in the Fuhrerbunker and what happened to to the leaders of the Third Reich. This is the incredible story of four escape routes out of Nazi occupied Europe and the Allied servicemen and men and women of the Resistance who all risked their lives for freedom.For this reviewer, the book was of special interest having served in Berlin in the early 1960s when the routes and locations described were still much as they were post WWII, including access into Hitler’s bunker before it was built over. Many of these have subsequently gained credence by virtue of their constant repetition – however bizarre they may be.