Hans Keilson A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation—and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners—Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim...

Saul Friedlander A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the...

Anne PerryIt is 1933 and Europe is a place of increasing fear and violence. Young British photographer Elena Standish is on assignment in Amalfi when she meets Ian Newton, a...

Alan FurstFrom the master of espionage and intrigue, this novel about heroic resistance fighters in 1942 occupied Paris is based on true events of Polish prisoners in Nazi Germany, who...

Diane Ackerman In war-torn Warsaw, a zookeeper and his wife refuse to surrender...Now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel Brühl, Diane Ackerman's The Zookeeper's Wife is based...

Antony Beevor This is a timely analysis and re-creation of the turning point of World War II. In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote "Stalingrad is no longer a town...Animals...

Tess de Loo A woman falls in love with a man who may or may not be her brother in this searing novel by de Loo (The Twins), which traces...

Anna Hajkova Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a...

Bram Presser They chose not to speak and now they are gone…What’s left to fill the silence is no longer theirs. This is my story, woven from the threads of...

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz BERLIN, NOVEMBER 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann must flee out the back of his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with...

Leah Garrett June 1942. The Third Reich is victorious everywhere. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff form an unusual plan: a new commando unit made up of...

Ruth Druart A family's love is tested when heroes-turned-criminals are forced to make the hardest decisions of their lives in this unforgettably moving story of love, resistance, and the lasting...