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by Géraldine Schwarz
Published Sep 2022
Read ReviewsThose Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist Géraldine Schwarz's riveting account of her German and French grandparents' lives during World War II, an in-depth history of Europe's post-war reckoning with fascism, and an urgent appeal to remember as a defense against today's rise of far-right nationalism.
by Francoise Frenkel
Published Aug 2020
Read Reviews"A beautiful and important book" (The Independent) in the tradition of rediscovered works like Suite Française and The Nazi Officer's Wife, the prize-winning memoir of a fearless Jewish bookseller on a harrowing fight for survival across Nazi-occupied Europe.
by Sonia Purnell
Published Mar 2020
Read ReviewsThe never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine
by Maria Hummel
Published Jan 2015
Read ReviewsThe novel bears witness to the shame and courage of Third Reich families during the devastating final days of the war, as each family member's fateful choice lead the reader deeper into questions of complicity and innocence, to the novel's heartbreaking and unforgettable conclusion.
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 Europes freshest young voicesa family story spanning two world wars and several generations in a German family.
by Hans Fallada
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsThis never-before-translated masterpieceby 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.
by Frederick Taylor
Published May 2008
Read ReviewsOn the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly cut a city of four million in two. The Berlin Wall is the first comprehensive account of a divided city and its people in a time when the world seemed to stand permanently on ...
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 Irene Nemirovsky
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsThe first two stories of a masterwork once thought lost, written by a pre-WWII bestselling author who was deported to Auschwitz and died before her work could be completed.
by Scott Simon
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsAs a journalist, Scott Simon covered the siege of Sarajevo. Here, in a novel as suspenseful as a John le Carré thriller, he re-creates the atmosphere of that place and time and the pain and dark humor of its people.
by Irmgard Hunt
Published Feb 2006
Read ReviewsA powerful and riveting account of a seemingly halcyon life lived mere paces from a center of evil and madness; a remarkable memoir of an "ordinary" childhood spent in an extraordinary time and place.
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 Joseph Kanon
Published Jun 2002
Read ReviewsThis thriller is both a touching love story and a masterful portrayal of the struggle for geopolitical control of postwar Germany.
by Irene Gut Opdyke
Published Apr 2001
Read Reviews"You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence." An amazing, courageous, uplifting autobiography about a brave teenager who was not afraid to get involved.
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