WW2
The Cairo Code
The Cairo Code was a bestseller when originally published as The Sands of Sakkara. A corpse found floating in the modern…
The Vow
The Vow is the story of Anna and Szymon, a devout girl and a young village priest who cling to…
A Country Road, A Tree
Editors' choice
This is the story of an Irish writer’s bleak WWII years in German-occupied France. “A Country Road, a Tree” is…
Heaven Cries
An Italian fighter pilot is shot down in North Africa. He needs to get back to Tobruk to rejoin the…
Bamboo Island
Malaysia has a history largely unknown to many in the West, and the events that took place during the Second…
Jacob’s Courage: A Holocaust Love Story
In Austria in 1939, young Jacob Silverman and Rachael Goldberg are in love. Jacob plans to go on to college.…
Because You Despise Me
American Jake Plenty runs a saloon and brothel in World War II Morocco. Resistance fighter Abaroa kills a German soldier…
Broken Angels
In the Lodz ghetto in 1942, young Elsi is awakened by her mother, who is moaning and bleeding from a…
The Mechanic
This novel, which spans over 50 years, from World War II to 1998, depicts the devastating effects of the Jewish…
Bela’s Letters
The grim fate of Eastern Europe’s Jews forms the vivid backdrop for Jeff Ingber’s autobiographical, genealogical novel Bela’s Letters, a…
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