Primo LevyThe author tries to understand the rationale behind Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Dismissing stereotyped images of brutal Nazi torturers and helpless victims, Levi draws extensively on his own experiences to...

John Lukacs This is a day-by-day account of the eighty-day struggle in 1940 between Hitler—poised on the edge of absolute victory—and Churchill—threatened by imminent invasion and defeat--on the eve of...

Ellen KeithA sweeping story of love and survival during World War IIAMSTERDAM, MAY 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs...

Steve Sem-Sandberg Meet The Emperor of Lies: the award-winning novel from Steve Sem-Sandberg. Spanning three decades, this epic chronicle of a Jewish family in Poland tells a gripping story of...

Graham GreenThe novelist Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. One day, inexplicably and without warning, Sarah had broken off the...

Esther Hautzig THE ENDLESS STEPPE is based on the author's true-life experience. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first.Esther Rudomin was ten years old when,...

Esther HautzigIt is June 1941. The Rudomin family has been arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists' enemies of the people." Forced from their home and friends in Vilna, Poland,...

Margaret LeroyWhen seventeen-year-old Stella Whittaker is offered the chance to study at the Academy of Music in Vienna it's a dream-come-true, made possible by old family friends, Rainer and Marthe...

Jake Wallis Simons   ‘Fascinating and moving’ – Monica Ali‘A powerful evocation of a bygone era’ – Sir Martin Gilbert‘An important subject explored by a writer to watch’ – Jonathan...

Robert MuchamoreSummer, 1940.Hitler's army is advancing towards Paris, and millions of French civilians are on the run.Amidst the chaos, two British children are being hunted by German agents.British spy Charles...

Neal Bascombe “Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism.”—David Grann, New York Times  bestselling author...

Elisabeth de Waal The Exiles Return is set in Occupied Vienna in 1954-5. It describes five people who grew up there before the war and have come back to see...