Second World War Books
WW Norton & Co Execution by Hunger
Book SynopsisSeven million people in the "breadbasket of Europe" were deliberately starved to death at Stalin's command. This story has been suppressed for half a century. Now, a survivor speaks.
£13.29
WW Norton & Co The Killing Zone My Life in the Vietnam War
Book Synopsis“The best damned book from the point of view of the infantrymen who fought there.”—Army Times
£12.99
WW Norton & Co Holocaust
Book SynopsisA magisterial, dramatic account that reshapes the way we think and talk about the greatest crime in history.Trade Review"The reader looking for a clear and readable account of how Hitler and the Nazis came to conceive and carry out their diabolical project need look no further than this book." -- Boston Globe"A monumental, sobering attempt to make sense of collective insanity." -- Kirkus Reviews"Through it all, the faces of the victims, and their persecutors, are clearly visible, making the reader aware of the human dimension of the Shoah and providing what Holocaust studies desperately needs: a single volume suitable for a wide audience." -- Library Journal"A distinctive blend of moral intensity, attention to detail and multifaceted breadth." -- Los Angeles Times"Holocaust is a superb work." -- The Forward"A signal contribution to the vast literature on the history of the Holocaust.... a volume from which general readers and scholars can both benefit." -- Douglas Greenberg, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation"[A]n elegantly written, thoroughly researched and compelling narrative...certain to be a standard work in the field of Holocaust studies." -- Dr. William L. Shulman, President, Association of Holocaust Organizations"A rare achievement that will take its place among the best histories of the destruction of European Jews." -- Michael R. Marrus, University of Toronto"[T]he focus is on the fate of named individuals on almost every page. That creates the unusual passion and strength of this remarkable book." -- Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman"[A] scholarly miracle....a sophisticated and gripping contribution to Holocaust education." -- Rabbi Irving Greenburg, President, Jewish Life Network"[A] 'must read' for anyone interested in understanding the true history of this extremely tragic time." -- Roman Kent, American Gathering/Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
£16.14
WW Norton & Co The Great Escape
Book Synopsis"A tense, thrilling, fabulous tale." —Philadelphia InquirerTrade Review"One of the great true stories of the war, and one of the greatest escape narratives of all time." -- San Francisco Chronicle"Absorbing... spine-tingling... puts the average war book so far in the shadow it's not even funny." -- Dallas Times Herald"For sheer suspense, puts the fictioneers to shame." -- Boston Globe
£12.99
W. W. Norton & Company The Spanish Holocaust
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£18.50
WW Norton & Co The Novel of Ferrara
Book SynopsisGiorgio Bassani’s six classic books, collected for the first time in English as the epic masterwork they were intended to be.Trade Review"A book of immense pathos, eloquence, elegiac splendor." -- Harold Bloom"The power of Bassani’s writing is such that, for a moment, his transitory world seems beautifully everlasting." -- Sam Sacks - Wall Street Journal"Essential reading for anyone thirsting for an understanding of the complex density of Europe’s multicultural inheritance." -- Fernanda Eberstadt - New York Times Book Review"By connecting with [Giorgio] Bassani’s souls, and sometimes by even becoming one (or all) of them, McKendrick brings to life—anew—the miracle of translation." -- John Florio Prize for Italian translation shortlist citation"[Bassani] could rightly place himself among the great Italian realist writers.… McKendrick is alert to Bassani’s cosmopolitanism and deep affinity for the English literary tradition, and doesn’t obscure the allusions Bassani certainly intended." -- Laura Kolbe - New York Review of Books"The fiction of this most dispassionate, most merciless and clear-eyed chronicler of the sequences and consequences of history?in stories almost always about the city’s decisions about whom to include or exclude as its own?is, in the end, against all the odds, a declaration of love." -- Ali Smith - Guardian"Sitting beside the author watching a fire blaze—destructive, beautiful, and above all compelling—is largely how it feels reading Bassani’s work." -- Tim Parks - Harper’s"As a mirror held up to Bassani’s generation, The Novel of Ferrara embodies a cautious optimism about how much this generation–and the ones to follow–might learn from its forebears’ mistakes. In its clear-eyed realism about the limits to such learning, as well as in the empathy with which it insists on pursuing it, Bassani’s Novel is a remarkable achievement." -- Marta Figlerowicz - Yale Review"Bassani’s monumental elegy to the city’s doomed Jewish community restores the dignity that it is owed even as it compels us to relive the devastation endured." -- Diane Cole - Jewish Review of Books"In a new translation by Jamie McKendrick, [The Novel of Ferrara] conveys a feeling of haze and depth, a sense of an old and inscrutable magic no less entrancing for often being dark." -- Talya Zaks - Forward
£16.14
Random House USA Inc Into That Darkness
Book SynopsisBased on 70 hours of interviews with Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka (the largest of the five Nazi extermination camps), this book bares the soul of a man who continually found ways to rationalize his role in Hitler's final solution.
£15.26
Random House USA Inc War without Mercy
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£17.85
Houghton Mifflin The Second World War Volume 1 The Gathering Storm
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£19.80
Houghton Mifflin The Second World War Volume 6 Triumph and Tragedy
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£19.29
Houghton Mifflin Memoirs of the Second World War
Book SynopsisFormer Prime Minister of Great Britain and Nobel Prizewinner Winston Churchill''s quintessential account of the Second World War.As not only the most powerful player in World War II, but also the most eloquent voice of defiance in the face of Nazi tyranny, Churchill recounts this epic time in world history. Remarkable for his grand sweep and incisive firsthand observations, Memoirs of the Second World War is a vital and illuminating work that retains the drama, eyewitness details, and magisterial prose of his classic six-volume history. Churchill''s accounts offers an invaluable view of pivotal events of the twentieth century.
£23.39
Random House USA Inc Spy
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A young woman is caught up in a dangerous double life on behalf of her country during World War II in Danielle Steel’s thrilling new novel. At eighteen, Alexandra Wickham is presented to King George V and Queen Mary in an exquisite white lace and satin dress her mother has ordered from Paris. With her delicate blond looks, she is a stunning beauty who seems destined for a privileged life. But fate, a world war, and her own quietly rebellious personality lead her down a different path. By 1939, Europe is on fire and England is at war. From her home in idyllic Hampshire, Alex makes her way to London as a volunteer in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. But she has skills that draw the attention of another branch of the service. Fluent in French and German, she would make the perfect secret agent. Within a year, Alex is shocking her family in trousers and bright red lipstick. They must never know about the
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Penguin Putnam Inc Beyond Band of Brothers The War Memoirs of Major
Book Synopsis“Tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries...laced with Winters’s soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades’ bravery.”—Publishers WeeklyLook for the Band of Brothers miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix! They were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150% casualties while liberating Europe—an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, Dick Winters was their legendary commander. This is his story—told in his own words for the first time. On D-Day, Winters assumed leadership of the Band of Brothers when its commander was killed and led them through the Battle of the Bulge and into Germany—by which time each member had been wounded. Based on Winters’s wartime diary, Trade ReviewPraise for Beyond Band of Brothers“There is a saying that 'Great leaders are born not made.' Such a man is Dick Winters... A beautifully written book about a truly great leader. This riveting read clearly reflects Dick Winters's solid character, great integrity, and unerring judgment in critical battlefield situations.”—Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore, co-author of We Were Soldiers Once...And Young“Its modesty, its candor, and its insights into the nature of front-line leadership and the fears and behaviors of men in combat make this memoir a classic ranking with Charles MacDonald's Company Commander.”—Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel“Dick Winters epitomizes the finest attributes of American citizen-soldiers….a poignant, riveting story with timeless application to the study of leadership in war.”—Colonel Lance Betros, Chairman, Department of History, U.S. Military Academy, editor of West Point: Two Centuries and Beyond“Winters's leadership inspired his soldiers to fight courageously under the most difficult and challenging conditions of battle. [An] extraordinary memoir.”—H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
£24.00
Penguin Putnam Inc Beyond Band of Brothers The War Memoirs of Major
Book Synopsis“Tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries...laced with Winters’s soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades’ bravery.”—Publishers WeeklyLook for the Band of Brothers miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix! They were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150% casualties while liberating Europe—an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, Dick Winters was their legendary commander. This is his story—told in his own words for the first time. On D-Day, Winters assumed leadership of the Band of Brothers when its commander was killed and led them through the Battle of the Bulge and into Germany—by which time each member had been wounded. Based on Winters’s wartime diary,
£18.70
Penguin Putnam Inc Brothers in Battle Best of Friends
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends“An irresistible story...relentlessly gripping.”—Kirkus Reviews“Remarkable...a must-read for anyone who enjoyed Band of Brothers.”—Publishers Weekly
£17.00
Penguin Putnam Inc Shiftys War
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Dutton Caliber Beyond The Call
Book SynopsisThis inspiring true story of veteran Air Force bomber pilot Robert Trimble, who laid his life on the line to rescue World War II POWs on the Eastern Front.Near the end of World War II, thousands of Allied ex-prisoners of war were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eastern Front. With no food, shelter, or supplies, the POWs were an army of dying men. As the Red Army advanced across Poland, the Nazi prison camps were liberated. In defiance of humanity, the freed Allied prisoners were discarded without aid. The Soviets viewed POWs as cowards, and regarded all refugees as potential spies or partisans.The United States repeatedly offered to help, but were refused. With relations between the Allies strained, a plan was conceived for an undercover rescue mission. In total secrecy, the OSS chose an obscure American air force detachment stationed at a Ukrainian airfield. The man they picked to undertake it was veteran 8th Air Force bomber pilot Captain Robert Trimble.With little covert training, Trimble took the mission. He would survive by wit, courage, and determination. This is the compelling, true story of an American hero who risked everything to bring his fellow soldiers home to safety and freedom.INCLUDES PHOTOS
£16.20
Little, Brown & Company childrenofwillesdenlanebeyondthekindertransportame
Book SynopsisIn this work, famed concert pianist Mona Golabek shares the inspirational true story of her mother's escape from pre-World War 2 Vienna to an orphanage in London.Trade Review' A tale of one young woman's courage... hopeful, personal and true' Los Angeles Times
£15.29
Penguin Books Ltd Pacific Alamo American War Heroes
Book SynopsisIt happened in the shadow of Pearl Harbor—mere hours after the first attack on the day that would “live in infamy.” But few know the full story of Wake Island.Now a prominent military historian, breaking new ground on the assault, relates the compelling events of that day and the heroic struggle that followed. Thanks to the brave Marines stationed there-and the civilian construction workers who selflessly put their lives on the line to defend the island-what was supposed to be an easy victory became a protracted and costly battle for Imperial Japan. This is the story of that battle, from survivors on both sides, and with a gallery of historic photos.Trade Review“John Wukovits has given this epic drama new meaning for a challenging time…. Pacific Alamo is an engaging, fascinating account of bravery in a desperate situation.”—WWII History “A remarkable chronology of a nearly forgotten episode in the early days of World War II… celebrates the heroism of the Marine defenders and the civilian construction crew that elected to stay and fight alongside the military.”—The Virginian–Pilot “[A] skillful blending of highly detailed research and a host of first-person accounts.”—Flint Whitlock, Author of The Fighting First: The Untold Story of the Big Red One on D-Day
£14.40
Penguin Putnam Inc Islands of the Damned
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£17.00
Dutton Caliber After Hitler The Last Ten Days of World War II in
Book SynopsisTen days that changed the course of history.On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin. But victory over the Nazi regime was not celebrated in western Europe until May 8, and in Russia a day later, on the ninth. Why did a peace agreement take so much time? How did this brutal, protracted conflict coalesce into its unlikely endgame? After Hitler shines a light on ten fascinating days after that infamous suicide that changed the course of the twentieth century. Combining exhaustive research with masterfully paced storytelling, Michael Jones recounts the Führer’s frantic last stand; the devious maneuverings of his handpicked successor, Karl Dönitz; the grudging respect Joseph Stalin had for Churchill and FDR, as well as his distrust of Harry Truman; the bold negotiating by General Dwight D. Eisenhower that hastened Germany’s surrender but drew the ire of the Kremlin; the journalist who almost scuttled th
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Dutton Caliber Defying Hitler
Book SynopsisAn enthralling story that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi rule“Stirring.”—USA Today • “Fascinating.”—New York Post • “Important.”—Newsday • “Gripping.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette • “Engrossing.”—Publishers Weekly • “Terrifying and timely.”—Alex KershawNazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless ordinary, everyday Germans actively resisted Hitler. Some passed industrial secrets to Allied spies. Some forged passports to help Jews escape the Reich. For others, resistance was as simple as writing a letter denouncing the rigidity of Nazi law. No matter how small the act, the danger was the same—any display of defiance was met with arrest, interrogation, torture, and even death.Defying Hitler follows the underground network of Germans who believed standing against the Fuhrer to be more important than their own survival. Their bravery is astonishing—a schoolgirl beheaded by the Gestapo for distributing anti-Nazi fliers; a German American teacher who smuggled military intel to Soviet agents, becoming the only American woman executed by the Nazis; a pacifist philosopher murdered for his role in a plot against Hitler; a young idealist who joined the SS to document their crimes, only to end up, to his horror, an accomplice to the Holocaust. This remarkable account illuminates their struggles, yielding an accessible narrative history with the pace and excitement of a thriller.
£19.00
Basic Books The German War A Nation Under Arms 19391945
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2015 Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Editor's Choice, New York Times Book Review "A dramatic look at the lives of ordinary German men and women during World War II." New York Times Book Review "[A] gripping new book... To write like this requires a rare sensitivity and psychological sophistication coupled with a degree of fearlessness... Stargardt impresses not only as a cultural historian. He also has an impressively strong grasp on the military narrative of the war. And this is indispensable... Stargardt has given us a truly profound piece of history." The Guardian "This vivid history of everyday life captures the complex feelings of ordinary Germans under the Nazi regime... A superb study." Wall Street Journal "Nicholas Stargardt's...gracefully written The German War offers by far the most comprehensive and readable guide to these issues...This is splendid scholarship... Anyone interested in National Socialist Germany, World War II and the many murderous regimes that still disfigure the earth should relish The German War." Economist "[Stargardt's] method of using letters and diaries of ordinary Germans yields unexpected insights, both into the Germans' humanity and their turn to barbarism." New York Review of Books "[Stargardt] draws on diaries, letters, and contemporary documents to paint a huge social canvas of Germans at war, soldiers and civilians, men and women of all ages... [he] tells his bleak story fluently and well, and illustrates it with a host of telling and often unfamiliar anecdotes." Washington Post, Richard Cohen "In his new and excellent book, 'The German War,' Oxford University historian Nicholas Stargardt exhumes the letters and diaries of German soldiers and others. He details how a cultured nation went insane, how ordinary soldiers became mass killers and how the churches of Germany looked the other way as the innocent were murdered." Foreign Affairs "Enthralling... Stargardt puts together a complex portrait of a nation gripped by patriotism and resentment, thrilled by early military victories, and proud of the fighting skills of the Wehrmacht." Forbes.com, Steve Forbes "The German War brilliantly and with impressive nuance and texture deals with the astounding questions of how the most educated and cultured nation on earth could unloose such a murderous, barbarous and genocidal war... Stargardt smoothly and vividly weaves together the stories of more than a score of individual Germans from all walks of life and the unfolding events of the war." Independent (UK) Trying to make sense of the mood and thoughts of 80 million-odd people is an immense task but Nicholas Stargardt has made a terrifically good stab at it. Spectator, (UK) "Superbly researched and clearly written, The German War is an important and significant book." The Observer "[T]his is a beautifully written and, yes, sensitive and subtle portrayal of war. The author deftly weaves individual tales with surprising observation." Times Higher Education "Ambitious... Stargardt's book is a prodigious accomplishment, as he manages to keep us in touch with the grand sweep of the war, as well as its ebb and flow, without losing sight of specific soldiers' behaviour. Its treasure trove of interesting information, clever observations and fresh insights make The German War essential reading for anyone interested in the Second World War in Europe." Washington Times "Exhaustive... A first-rate historical read." Washington Book Review "An important addition to the growing number of books on the history of WWII... a very insightful study." Roanoake Times "Exhaustively researched, well-written... well and unblinkingly told." Kirkus Reviews "[A] massive but thorough meditation... A well-researched, unsettling social history of war that will prove deeply thought-provoking--even worrying--for readers who wonder what they might have done under the same circumstances."
£22.48
The University of Michigan Press Persecution and Rescue
Book SynopsisDrawing on German and French sources, Wolfgang Seibel traces the twisted process of political decision-making that shaped the fate of the Jews in German-occupied France during World War II. By analysing the German-French negotiations, he reveals the underlying logic as well as the actual course of the bargaining process as both the Vichy Regime and the Germans sought a stable relationship.Trade ReviewWhile I recommend this book to all students of the Holocaust in France, particularly political scientists, I also prescribe it for anyone who mistakenly believes that the wartime murder of Jews in France can be explained by simple explanations, or sweeping generalizations about French society and its attitudes toward the victims. For Wolfgang Seibel has an excellent appreciation of complexity of these events. With an expert social scientist's sense of shifting power relations among the actors, he provides a carefully balanced and morally sensitive assessment of wartime bargaining among German occupiers, French state collaborators, and bystanders such as the Catholic Church.”—Michael R. Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto and co-author, with Robert O. Paxton, of Vichy France and the Jews""This book is a very detailed account based on all available archives, of the process that led to the persecution and deportation but also a deep questioning of the limits of the process : why were the deportations slowed down after the first wave of Summer 1942? Wolfgang Seibel studies the structure of persecution as his main focus of interest but he wants to break away from the traditional narrative of cumulative radicalisation provoked by a competition between agents/agencies. His technique of analysis is much more complex, questioning the a persecution apparatus often described as monolithic, the traditional differentiation between perpetrators, victims and bystanders and the question of actors’ rationality that should be considered in a whole repertoire, including a moral one. It is a must read book for any researchers or students of the Holocaust in France.”—Jean-Marc Dreyfus, The University of Manchester
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Becoming a Nazi Town
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Thames & Hudson Ltd World War II Infographics
Book SynopsisTrade Review'A masterpiece of illustrative endeavour … a fantastic achievement and a must-have addition to any WWII enthusiast’s bookshelf' - The Armourer'Hugely impressive … This is data visualisation at its absolute finest … a truly staggering achievement by everyone involved' - Geographical'Awe-inspiring' - History of War'Beautifully illustrated … a really thought-provoking and different book that you’ll want to revisit again and again' - Eastern Daily Press'A fresh and fascinating look at World War II … the layout is perfect, as are the superb graphics' - West Read Reviews'Groundbreaking as a resource for students to think about the history and scale of modern conflict' - Dr Simone Gigliotti, Royal Holloway'Superb, beautifully presented … [has] successfully developed creative and unique means to explain this intricate detail. A pleasing aesthetic runs throughout' - Britain at War
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group November 1942
Book SynopsisThe New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • An intimate history of the most important month of World War II, completely based on the diaries, letters and memoirs of the people who lived through itAt the beginning of November 1942, it looked as if the Axis powers could still win the Second World War; at the end of that month, it was obviously just a matter of time before they would lose. In between were el-Alamein, Guadalcanal, the French North Africa landings, the Japanese retreat in New Guinea and the Soviet encirclement of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad. It may have been the most important thirty days of the twentieth century. In this hugely innovative and riveting history, Peter Englund has reduced an epoch-making event to its basic component: the individual experience. Englund’s narrative is based solely on what he learned from the writings of soldiers and ordinary citizens alike. They comprise a remarkable, deeply personal resource. In thirty memorable days, among those we meet are: a Soviet infantryman at Stalingrad; an American pilot on Guadalcanal; an Italian truck driver in the North African desert; a partisan in the Belarussian forests; a machine gunner in a British bomber; a twelve-year-old girl in Shanghai; a university student in Paris; a housewife on Long Island; a shipwrecked Chinese sailor; a prisoner in Treblinka; a Korean “comfort woman” in Mandalay; Albert Camus, Vasily Grossman and Vera Brittain—forty characters in all. In addition, we experience the construction and launching of SS James Oglethorpe, a Liberty ship built in Savannah; the fate of U-604, a German submarine; the building of the first nuclear reactor in Chicago; and the making of Casablanca. Not since the publication of the author’s last book, The Beauty and the Sorrow, which similarly looked at the First World War, have we had such a mesmerizing work of history.
£16.94
Penguin Putnam Inc A Castle in Wartime
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Random House USA Inc Haunting Paris
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Random House USA Inc Death in Focus
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Alfred A. Knopf Making of Another Major Motion Picture
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II.Wild, ambitious and exceptionally enjoyable. —Matt Haig, best-selling author The Midnight Library, The Humans and Reasons to Stay AlivePart One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for twenty-three years.Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was five, draws a new version with his uncle as a World War I
£26.00
Houghton Mifflin Prisoners of Breendonk The Personal Histories
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£16.10
Harper In the Full Light of the Sun
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£22.95
Mariner Books The Arsenal of Democracy Fdr Detroit and an Epic
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£16.19
Mariner Books When Books Went to War The Stories That Helped Us
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Cengage Learning, Inc The Holocaust 4E Problems in European Civilization Wadsworth
Book SynopsisA work from Cengage Learning on "The Holocaust".Table of ContentsTOCS not yet available
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Penguin Young Readers Soldados de Salamina Soldiers of Salamis
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Penguin Putnam Inc Atomic Love
Book SynopsisA novel of science, love, espionage, beautiful writing, and a heroine who carves a strong path in the world of men. As far as I''m concerned there is nothing left to want.--Ann Patchett, author The Dutch HouseA highly-charged love story that reveals the dangerous energy at the heart of every real connection...Riveting.--Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads SingLove. Desire. Betrayal. Her choice could save a nation.Chicago, 1950. Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations--in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project and in her passionate love affair with colleague Thomas Weaver. Five years after the end of both, her guilt over the bomb and her heartbreak over Weaver are intertwined. She desperately misses her work in the lab, yet has almost resigned herself to a more conventional life.Then Weaver gets back in touch--and so does the FBI. Special Agent Charlie Szydlo wants Roz to spy on Weaver, whom the FBI suspects of passing nuclear secrets to the enemy. Roz helped to develop these secrets and knows better than anyone the devastating power such knowledge holds. But can she spy on a man she still loves, despite her better instincts? At the same time, something about Charlie draws her in. He''s a former prisoner of war haunted by his past, just as her past haunts her. As Rosalind''s feelings for each man deepen, so too does the danger she finds herself in. She will have to choose: the man who taught her how to love . . . or the man her love might save?
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Random House USA Inc The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle
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Penguin Putnam Inc Think of Me
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of We Must Be Brave comes a sweeping historical novel following one couple’s journey from Egypt to England, from war to peace, from loss to redemption.An epic love. A second chance. 1942, Alexandria, Egypt. Yvette Haddad and James Acton hold hands for the first time as bombs explode above them. As World War II rages on, they find their way back to each other time and again. But their greatest challenge comes after the war, in England, and the path back to one another is one that both must be brave enough to face. 1974. Ten years after his wife’s death, James moves to the village of Upton to begin again. There he discovers a scarf that his heart recognizes and the secrets he has held on to for years threaten to break loose. But Yvette had secrets too, and as James follows a trail that leads him back through the landscape of their marriage, what he discovers
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Prisoners Wife
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Alfred A. Knopf The Pages
Book SynopsisAn entirely original novel in which a book—Joseph Roth's masterpiece Rebellion—narrates its own astonishing life story, from 1930s Germany to the present day, at the heart of a gripping mystery. “A powerful, powerful piece of work.” —Colum McCann, best-selling author of ApeirogonOne old copy of the novel Rebellion sits in Lena Knecht’s tote bag, about to accompany her on a journey from New York to Berlin in search of a clue to the hand-drawn map on its last page. It is the brilliantly captivating voice of this novel—a first edition nearly burned by Nazis in May 1933—that is our narrator. Fast-paced and tightly plotted, The Pages brings together a multitude of dazzling characters, real and invented, in a sweeping story of survival, chance, and the joys and struggles of love. At its center are Roth, an Austrian Jewish author on the run, and his wife, Friederik
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Penguin Young Readers Life and Fate
Book SynopsisThis panoramic novel about a family scattered across the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II is a monument of modern Russian literature by the Ukrainian-born writer hailed as “the Tolstoy of the USSR.”Suppressed by the KGB and years later smuggled out of the Soviet Union to be published, Vasily Grossman’s novel is an unsparing story of ordinary Russians tragically caught between the fascism of the invading Nazis and the oppression of their own Soviet government. The sprawling plot follows the travails of the extended family of Viktor Shtrum along the vast eastern front of the war. Shtrum is a brilliant nuclear physicist who faces rising anti-Semitism in Moscow while his relatives navigate the threat of camps and prisons on both the Soviet and the Nazi sides. Grossman’s extensive wartime reporting, combined with his Tolstoyan narrative skills, allow him to portray with unprecedented detail and authenticity the human cost
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Fervor
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed author of the celebrated literary horror novels The Hunger and The Deep turns her psychological and supernatural eye to the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps during World War II.1944: As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the home front. In a remote corner of Idaho, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are desperate to return home. Following Meiko's husband's enlistment as an air force pilot in the Pacific months prior, Meiko and Aiko were taken from their home in Seattle and sent to one of the internment camps in the Midwest. It didn’t matter that Aiko was American-born: They were Japanese, and therefore considered a threat by the American government.Mother and daughter attempt to hold on to elements of their old life in the camp when a mysterious disease begins to spread among those interned. What starts as a minor cold quickly becomes spontaneous fits of violence and aggression, even death. And
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Random House USA Inc A Truth to Lie For
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Kew Gardens Girls at War
Book SynopsisInspired by real events, a touching novel about a new class of courageous women who worked at London’s historic Kew Gardens during World War II.In the face of war, gardening is their duty…When Daisy Cooper’s new husband joins the RAF to fight the Battle of Britain, she’s terrified she’s going to lose him. So when her mother Ivy suggests she join the gardeners at Kew to keep busy, Daisy’s intrigued. After all, Ivy worked at Kew during the last great war and made lifelong friends along the way. Louisa Armitage, not ready to hang up her gardening gloves just yet, and Beth Sanderson, an aspiring doctor looking to make a difference, decide to enlist as well. When tragedy strikes, the women are forced to come together to support one other during their darkest hours. But can the Kew Gardens Girls survive the horrors of war-torn London this time?
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Last Lifeboat
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Midnight News
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Longbourn, a gripping novel of one young woman’s unraveling during the Blitz—a story of World War II intrigue, love, and danger • “[A] thrilling novel…atmospheric and memorable.” —Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of HavenIt is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother, who never returned from France, she is trying to keep herself out of trouble: holding down a typist job at the Ministry of Information, sharing gin and confidences with her best friend, Elena, and dodging her overbearing father.On her way to work she often sees the boy who feeds the birds—a source of unexpected joy amid the rubble of the Blitz. But every day brings new scenes of devastation, and after yet another heartbreaking loss Charlotte has an uncanny sense of foreboding. Someone is stalking the darkness, targeting her friends. And now he’s following her.As grief and suspicion consume her, Charlotte’s nerves become increasingly frayed. She no longer knows whom to trust. She can’t even trust herself . . .Utterly riveting and hypnotic, The Midnight News is a love story, a war story,and an unforgettable journey into the fragile mind and fierce heart of an extraordinary young woman.
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