Philip StaalIt was 1942 in Amsterdam when Isaac and Anna Staal began noticing their Jewish neighbors disappearing. Some were taken away by Dutch police. Some vanished in the middle of...

Robert KursonShadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War IIIn the fall of 1991, in the frigid...

Louis Rapoport A writer and editor for the Jerusalem Post , Rapoport (1942-91) portrays Hillel Kook, using the pseudonym Peter Bergson, as a heroic advocate for the US government to...

Shlomo Wakshlomo Waks and his family were routed from their home in Krasnik (Poland) by SS troops and taken to the local railroad station for deportation to Belzec, a newly...

Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer Shosha is a hauntingly lyrical love story set in Jewish Warsaw on the eve of its annihilation. Aaron Greidinger, an aspiring Yiddish writer and the son...

Tom Segev With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrationsNow in paperback, the first fully documented biography of the legendary Polish-born Nazi hunter—a revelatory account of a man whose life, though part...

John Keegan The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally...

Peter W Schroeder and Dagmar Schroeder-Hilderbrand Describes the efforts of middle school students from the rural Tennessee town of Whitwell to create a Holocaust memorial based on a collection of...

Chris BohjalianSet in the last few months of the Second World War, this is the powerful and moving story of a small group of people, including a young Scottish prisoner-of-war,...

Constance Bowman ReidIn 1943 two spirited young teachers decided to do their part for the war effort by spending their summer vacation working the swing shift on a B-24 production...

Andrea Levy   It is 1948 in an England still shaken by war. At 21 Nevern Street, London, Queenie Bligh takes into her house lodgers who have recently arrived from...

Hans Hellmut Kirst An extraordinary novel about the Officers' attempt on Hitler's life. August 1, 1967 by Bantam Books