Primo Levi The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element, the collection...

Oliver Sacks This is an extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic, which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive...

John Merriman This work, the first of a two-volume set, covers the history of Europe since the Renaissance. It emphasizes not only cultural and social history, but also examines important...

JM Roberts Comprehensive in its scope and brilliantly readable, this is a superb follow-up to the author's bestselling Penguin History of the World. Beginning with prehistory and the early civilizations...

Kati Marton A fearless young Swede whose efforts saved countless Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of Adolf Eichmann, Raoul Wallenberg was one of the true heroes to...

Alan Taylor The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde,...

Caroline Shenton 'Vigorously researched and highly entertaining' - Daily Telegraph'Geeks triumph over the forces of nothing could have given me greater pleasure. Combining an exciting story with scrupulous research, Caroline...

Elizabeth Wein Oct. 11th, 1943 - A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival....

Edited By Kenneth O Morgan January 1, 1989 by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Martin Gilbert In 1996 Martin Gilbert was asked by a group of his graduate students to lead them on a tour of the places in Europe that were the stage...

Abram Goldberg One of the most uplifting stories you will ever read. Abram Goldberg is a beacon of joy and optimism, and a master of keeping perspective.The day Abram and...

Norman Mailer The October, 1967 anti-war demonstration in Washington and the issues and politics involved are interpreted and dramatized by the novelist. December 1, 1981 by Signet