Victoria Hislop   The gripping new novel by Sunday Times Number One bestseller Victoria Hislop is set against the backdrop of the German occupation of Greece, the subsequent civil war...

Naphtali Lau-LavieBalaam's Prophecy is a personal account of Jewish history in the years 1939-89. Written by Ambassador Naphtali Lau-Lavie, journalist and diplomat, who survived the horrors of Nazi concentration camps...

David MaloufBy the author of 'Remembering Babylon', 'The Great World' is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and of fall from innocence, of survival and witness.

Richard FlanaganA novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love.What would you do if you saw the love of your life, whom you...

Goldie Goldbloom Winner of the 2008 AWP Award for the NovelFrom 1941 to 1947, eighteen thousand Italian prisoners of war were sent to Australia. The Italian surrender that followed the...

Hans Fallada Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books (January 1, 2010)

Max Hastings "Monumental." --New York Times Book ReviewNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret...

Kate Furvinall *** PICKED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE MAIL ON SUNDAY  ***‘A clever, absorbing thriller that does not shrink from the horror of the war' Times'Compelling'...

Sharon Appelfeld A concentration camp survivor living in modern Israel, Bartfuss struggles to cope with his terrifying recollections of the past, a hopeless marriage, and emotional upheaval and uncertainty First...

Hugo Gryn The death of Rabbi Hugo Gryn in 1996 was an occasion of great sadness for millions who had enjoyed his contributions to radio 4's "The Moral Maze". Few...

Leo Spitzer In the 1930s, thousands of people fleeing Nazi-dominated Europe found refuge in Latin America. But by late 1938, Bolivia was one of the few places in the entire...

William R Callahan 1941. Wartime Newfoundland.Keeping vigil on the easternmost point of North America, and providing a strategic haven to battle-ready U.S. troops during World War II, the island colony...