WW2
Scandal in the Secret City
The high-security, covert area known as Oak Ridge, Tennessee – over 50,000 acres of land set aside by the U.S.…
Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
Glenn Kurtz here writes about his shock when he came across three minutes of old film shot by his grandfather,…
Land of Dreams
The third book in the trilogy that began with Ellis Island and continued with City of Hope, Land of Dreams…
Black Star
The year is 1941 (apart from a short prologue in 1937) and evil is of course afoot. Willi Schaaf is…
The Cloth Elephant
This is an epic – in several senses – novel of Germany’s decline into war and fascism. The story revolves…
Susan Marcus Bends the Rules
Susan Marcus Bends the Rules is set during WWII in Clayton, Missouri. Missouri is quite a change for Susan Marcus,…
The Nibelungen Hoard
The action of Todd’s gripping and well-orchestrated debut splits between the final days of the Third Reich and four decades…
When the Doves Disappeared
Estonians Rosalie and Roland, Juudit and Edgar suffer appalling consequences, along with their families and numerous others, from the triple…
Fashion in the 1940s
This slim volume provides a fascinating overview of fashion in the 1940s, primarily in Great Britain. The focus here is…
My Grandfather’s Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War
In this nonfiction book, Anne Sinclair tells the story of her grandfather, Paul Rosenberg. In 1940, like so many other…
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