Erik Larson   The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning...

Natalie Danford This exquisitely written novel asks a simple question: How well do we know our parents? One half of the story begins after the death of Luigi Bonocchio, an...

Mark Mazower This gripping and richly illustrated account of wartime Greece explores the impact of the Nazi Occupation upon the lives and values of ordinary people. The first full account...

Robert H Abzug Forty years ago Allied soldiers liberated Buchenwald, Dachau, Belsen, and other concentration camps, and came face to face with the human ruins of the Nazi system of...

Jennie RooneyStephanie Stanford, recently widowed, must tell her family the truth. But the past is complicated and difficult to untangle. Meanwhile, Michael's memories are squashed into a shoebox (along with...

Erica JongA sexy tale celebrating the strength and creativity we inherit from our mothers (Glamour), Inventing Memory is Erica Jong's mesmerizing, beautifully written saga of modern womanhood and the struggle...

Erica Jong"A sexy tale celebrating the strength and creativity we inherit from our mothers" (Glamour), Inventing Memory is Erica Jong's mesmerizing, beautifully written saga of modern womanhood and the struggle...

Jack and Rochelle SutinDescribes the meeting of two escaped prisoners from Nazi labor camps and the dangerous circumstances under which they survived and resisted the war, which included raids on...

Jurek Becker One of the most remarkable novels of the Holocaust ever written, Jakob the Liar is a tale of everyday heroism and the extraordinary power of illusion. Set in...

Yehuda Bauer The world has recently learned of Oskar Schindler's efforts to save the lives of Jewish workers in his factory in Poland by bribing Nazi officials. Not as well...

Matthias Kuntzel German historian Matthias Küntzel’s Jihad and Jew-Hatred details how contemporary Islamist movements have been informed by the antisemitism of the Third Reich.Originally published in German as Djihad und Judenhass, this compelling...

Starr Smith Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II--and they were legion--Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7th, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke...