WW2
If This Is a Woman: Inside Ravensbrück: Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women
This is an exceptionally detailed history of the only concentration camp established under the Nazi regime solely for female prisoners.…
Girl in the Blue Coat
Girl in the Blue Coat is a sensitively told coming-of-age story set in the Netherlands during the German occupation. Hanneke…
Charlotte
Charlotte, by French writer David Foenkinos, tells the story of Charlotte Salomon, a young artist passionately in love with her…
Lilac Girls
It might seem that New York socialite Caroline Ferriday, German doctor Herta Oberheuser, and Polish teenager Kasia Kuzmerick have nothing…
Target Churchill
Previous publications of Warren Adler (The War of the Roses) and James C. Humes (Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman) promise an…
The Girl from the Paradise Ballroom
The Girl from the Paradise Ballroom is a sweeping novel that explores humanity, family loyalty, and national prejudice in the…
The Crime and the Silence: A Quest for the Truth of a Wartime Massacre
In 2000, Jan T. Gross published an account of a massacre of the Jewish inhabitants of a small town in…
Never Surrender: Winston Churchill & Britain’s Decision to Fight Nazi Germany in the Fateful Summer of 1940
Never Surrender describes the political machinations taking place in Britain during 1939 and 1940, when the Cabinet debated whether to…
The Kimono Song
The Kimono Song is set in Manila in 1945, but with flashbacks to 1942. The story starts with the main…
Lost Kin
It’s Germany in 1946. Americans, Russians, refugees, and ex-Nazis try to survive the post-war turmoil. In the middle of this…
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