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by Anne Berest
Published May 2024
Read ReviewsAnne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life.
by Jeanne Mackin
Published Aug 2020
Read ReviewsAn American woman becomes entangled in the intense rivalry between iconic fashion designers Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli in this vivid novel from the acclaimed author of The Beautiful American.
by Dasa Drndic
Published Mar 2015
Read Reviews"A masterpiece" (A.N. Wilson), this many-layered novel of WWII combines fiction with a Sebaldian collage of facts to explore the fate of Italian Jews under Nazi occupation, through the intimate story of a mother's search for her son
by Ayelet Waldman
Published Jan 2015
Read ReviewsA spellbinding new novel of contraband masterpieces, tragic love, and the unexpected legacies of forgotten crimes, Ayelet Waldman's Love and Treasure weaves a tale around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in the Second World War.
The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz
by Denis Avey, Rob Broomby
Published Aug 2012
Read ReviewsThe Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III, to testify at first hand the atrocities occurring in the camp.
by Julia Franck
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsWinner of the German Book Prize, The Blindness of the Heart is a dark marvel of a novel by one of Europe’s freshest young voices—a family story spanning two world wars and several generations in a German family.
by Sarah Blake
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsThe Postmistress is an unforgettable tale of the secrets we must bear, or bury. It is about what happens to love during wartime, when those we cherish leave. And how every story - of love or war - is about looking left when we should have been looking right.
by Hans Fallada
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsThis never-before-translated masterpiece—by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble under the Nazis— is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front...
by Chris Bohjalian
Published Feb 2009
Read ReviewsIn January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. As they work their way west, they encounter a countryside ravaged by war.
Joop: A Novel of Anne Frank (A Hatred for Tulips)
by Richard Lourie
Published Oct 2008
Read ReviewsA gripping fictionalized account of the man who betrayed Anne Frank will not soon be forgotten. Richard Lourie takes us into not only a person’s mind, a time, and a place, but into the treacherous currents of history that sweep lives away.
Published in hardcover in the USA as A Hatred For Tulips, but renamed Joop: A Novel of Anne Frank in ...
by Sara Young (Pennypacker)
Published Oct 2008
Read ReviewsMining a lost piece of history, Sara Young takes us deep into the lives of women living in the worst of times. Part love story and part elegy for the terrible choices we must often make to survive, My Enemy's Cradle keens for what we lose in war and sings for the hope we sometimes find.
by Diane Ackerman
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsA true story, as powerful as Schindler’s List, in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
by Michael Wallner
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsSet in 1943, April In Paris, by first time German novelist Wallner, is the dramatic story of an impossible love between a German soldier and a French Resistance fighter in occupied Paris.
by Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
Published Oct 2007
Read ReviewsThe story of Child's growth from a naive newleywed into a great cook and one of the best and most influential teachers of the twentieth century.
by Anonymous
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsThe diary of a young woman, recording her and her neighbors' experiences as, for six weeks in 1945, Berlin fell to the Russian army.
by Elie Wiesel
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsAn autobiographical narrative in which the author describes his experiences in Nazi concentration camps, watching family and friends die, and how they led him to believe that God is dead.
by Mary Doria Russell
Published Nov 2005
Read ReviewsSet in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, Russell's ambitious and engrossing novel tells the little known story of how Italian citizens saved more than 43,000 Jews during the last 20 months of WWII.
by Peter Duffy
Published May 2004
Read ReviewsThe inspiring and harrowing true story of three brothers who established a hidden base camp in the Belorussian forest eluding the Nazi's extensive efforts to capture them. In July 1944, after two and a half years in the woods, more than one thousand Jewish men, women and children, emerged from the woods triumphant and alive.
by Rich Cohen
Published Oct 2001
Read ReviewsThe true story of a band of Jewish guerrillas, called the Avengers, in World War II. What happened to these rebels in the ghetto and in the forest, and how, fighting for the State of Israel, they moved beyond the violence of the Holocaust and made new lives.
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