John Lukacs The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940, altered the course of the history of the twentieth century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated...

Joanne Harris   The novels of Joanne Harris are a literary feast for the senses. Five Quarters of the Orange represents Harris's most complex and sophisticated work yet - a...

Bernard GoldsteinBorn in a small town outside of Warsaw in 1889, Bernard Goldstein joined the Jewish labor organization, the Bund, at age 16 and dedicated his life to organizing workers...

Michael Morpurgo In the 1980s a traveler in the Camargue of South France falls ill and is taken in by an older gentleman and lady named Lorenzo and Kezia. While...

James Bradley Now in paperback comes the momentous tale of the Pacific war told through dramatic poignant and unforgettable stories of nine heroic Americans Michael Beschloss author of The Conquerors, The classic New...

Michael Smith Foley

Aharon AppelfeldIn For Every Sin, Aharon Appelfeld, recounts the moving and unforgettable story of Theo, a young Holocaust survivor struggling to come to terms with his experience. A student when...

Candace Waters For fans of Janet Beard’s The Atomic City Girls and Marie Benedict’s The Only Woman in the Room, this powerful, romantic novel tells the story of a woman determined to aid...

Max Arthur  The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten...

Hana Greenfield In Auschwitz, time had different dimensions. Time here was defined by waiting for the one daily ration of a slice of bread which was the very substance of...

Jon Meacham Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation." In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who...

Hans Peter Richter   Friedrich and his best friend were growing up in Germany in the early 1930s. At first, Friedrich seemed to be the more fortunate, but when Hitler...