John Bierman: 2 books

Great Battles: The Battle of Alamein

North Africa 1942

by Colin Smith, John Bierman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011

Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. In this Special, Colin Smith and John Bierman make the battle of Alamein come alive. A turning point in the Second World War, the battle...

Righteous Gentile

The Story of Raoul Wallenberg, Missing Hero of the Holocaust

by John Bierman
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012

Swallowed up by the Soviet prison system, the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, saviour of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Nazi holocaust, remains a mystery. Recently KGB files have been opened and many Communist crimes have been fully exposed. Yet there is still no evidence, apart from...