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My Mother's Wars
Written by Lillian Faderman
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $25.95
Written by Lillian Faderman
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $25.95
An acclaimed writer on her mother’s tumultuous life as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York and her life-long guilt when the Holocaust claims the family she left behind in Latvia
A story of love, war, and life as a Jewish immigrant in the squalid factories and lively dance halls of New...
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My Mother's Wars
Written by Lillian Faderman
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $25.95
Written by Lillian Faderman
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $25.95
An acclaimed writer on her mother’s tumultuous life as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York and her life-long guilt when the Holocaust claims the family she left behind in Latvia
A story of love, war, and life as a Jewish immigrant in the squalid factories and lively dance halls of New...
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Vera Gran-The Accused
Written by Agata Tuszynska
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $28.95
The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941–summer 1942) . . . and her piano accompanist: W³adys³aw Szpilman, made famous by Roman... Read more >
Written by Agata Tuszynska
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $28.95
The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941–summer 1942) . . . and her piano accompanist: W³adys³aw Szpilman, made famous by Roman... Read more >
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Vera Gran-The Accused
Written by Agata Tuszynska
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $14.99
The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941–summer 1942) . . . and her piano accompanist: W³adys³aw Szpilman, made famous by Roman... Read more >
Written by Agata Tuszynska
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $14.99
The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941–summer 1942) . . . and her piano accompanist: W³adys³aw Szpilman, made famous by Roman... Read more >
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Crossing the Borders of Time
A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
Written by Leslie Maitland
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $17.95
A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
Written by Leslie Maitland
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $17.95
On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried from the arms of the Catholic Frenchman she loved and promised to marry. As the Lipari...
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The Woman from Hamburg
and Other True Stories
Written by Hanna Krall
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $8.99
In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding place... Read more >
and Other True Stories
Written by Hanna Krall
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $8.99
In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding place... Read more >
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Isaac's Army
A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Written by Matthew Brzezinski
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $30.00
Starting as early as 1939, disparate Jewish underground movements coalesced around the shared goal of liberating Poland from Nazi occupation. For the next six years, separately and in concert, they waged a heroic war of resistance against Hitler’s war machine that culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In Isaac’s Army, Matthew... Read more >
A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Written by Matthew Brzezinski
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $30.00
Starting as early as 1939, disparate Jewish underground movements coalesced around the shared goal of liberating Poland from Nazi occupation. For the next six years, separately and in concert, they waged a heroic war of resistance against Hitler’s war machine that culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In Isaac’s Army, Matthew... Read more >
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Isaac's Army
A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Written by Matthew Brzezinski
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $15.99
Starting as early as 1939, disparate Jewish underground movements coalesced around the shared goal of liberating Poland from Nazi occupation. For the next six years, separately and in concert, they waged a heroic war of resistance against Hitler’s war machine that culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In Isaac’s Army, Matthew... Read more >
A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Written by Matthew Brzezinski
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $15.99
Starting as early as 1939, disparate Jewish underground movements coalesced around the shared goal of liberating Poland from Nazi occupation. For the next six years, separately and in concert, they waged a heroic war of resistance against Hitler’s war machine that culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In Isaac’s Army, Matthew... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
Ballpoint
A Tale of Genius and Grit, Perilous Times, and the Invention that Changed the Way We Write
Written by Gyoergy Moldova
Translated by David Robert Evans
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $14.95
The triumphs and the trials of the men who invented the modern ballpoint pen as they battled corporate greed, dark eras--and each other.
László Bíró's last name is, in much of the world, a synonym for his revolutionary writing tool. But few people know that Bíró began his career in interwar Budapest... Read more >
A Tale of Genius and Grit, Perilous Times, and the Invention that Changed the Way We Write
Written by Gyoergy Moldova
Translated by David Robert Evans
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $14.95
The triumphs and the trials of the men who invented the modern ballpoint pen as they battled corporate greed, dark eras--and each other.
László Bíró's last name is, in much of the world, a synonym for his revolutionary writing tool. But few people know that Bíró began his career in interwar Budapest... Read more >
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Ballpoint
A Tale of Genius and Grit, Perilous Times, and the Invention that Changed the Way We Write
Written by Gyoergy Moldova
Translated by David Robert Evans
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $14.95
The triumphs and the trials of the men who invented the modern ballpoint pen as they battled corporate greed, dark eras--and each other.
László Bíró's last name is, in much of the world, a synonym for his revolutionary writing tool. But few people know that Bíró began his career in interwar Budapest... Read more >
A Tale of Genius and Grit, Perilous Times, and the Invention that Changed the Way We Write
Written by Gyoergy Moldova
Translated by David Robert Evans
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $14.95
The triumphs and the trials of the men who invented the modern ballpoint pen as they battled corporate greed, dark eras--and each other.
László Bíró's last name is, in much of the world, a synonym for his revolutionary writing tool. But few people know that Bíró began his career in interwar Budapest... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Dead Funny
Telling Jokes in Hitler's Germany
Written by Rudolph Herzog
Translated by Jefferson Chase
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $16.95
In Nazi Germany, telling jokes about Hitler could get you killed
Hitler and Göring are standing on top of the Berlin radio tower. Hitler says he wants to do something to put a smile on the Berliners’ faces. Göring says, “Why don’t you jump?”
When a woman told this joke in Germany in... Read more >
Telling Jokes in Hitler's Germany
Written by Rudolph Herzog
Translated by Jefferson Chase
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $16.95
In Nazi Germany, telling jokes about Hitler could get you killed
Hitler and Göring are standing on top of the Berlin radio tower. Hitler says he wants to do something to put a smile on the Berliners’ faces. Göring says, “Why don’t you jump?”
When a woman told this joke in Germany in... Read more >
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The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials
A Personal Memoir
Written by Telford Taylor
Format: eBook, 703 pages
On Sale: June 20, 2012
Price: $39.99
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A Personal Memoir
Written by Telford Taylor
Format: eBook, 703 pages
On Sale: June 20, 2012
Price: $39.99
Read more >
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Death in the City of Light
The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
Written by David King
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $16.00
Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the... Read more >
The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
Written by David King
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $16.00
Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the... Read more >
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The Blood of His Servants
Written by Malcolm MacPherson
Format: eBook, 310 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2012
Price: $9.99
The Blood of His Servants is a remarkable true story. In the whole range of Holocaust literature it stands apart, for it recounts the search by one survivor for the single Nazi murderer of his family—a man who had once been their friend.
In prewar Poland, Bibi Krumholz, the nephew of... Read more >
Written by Malcolm MacPherson
Format: eBook, 310 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2012
Price: $9.99
The Blood of His Servants is a remarkable true story. In the whole range of Holocaust literature it stands apart, for it recounts the search by one survivor for the single Nazi murderer of his family—a man who had once been their friend.
In prewar Poland, Bibi Krumholz, the nephew of... Read more >
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Anne Frank's Family
The Extraordinary Story of Where She Came From, Based on More Than 6,000 Newly Discovered Letters, Documents, and Photos
Written by Mirjam Pressler
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $14.95
The Extraordinary Story of Where She Came From, Based on More Than 6,000 Newly Discovered Letters, Documents, and Photos
Written by Mirjam Pressler
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $14.95
This fascinating history of Anne Frank and the family that shaped her is based on a treasure trove of thousands of letters, poems, drawings, postcards, and photos recently discovered by her last surviving close relative, Buddy Elias, and his wife, Gerti.
As children, Anne and her cousin Buddy were very close; he...
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eBook.
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In the Garden of Beasts
Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Written by Erik Larson
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $16.00
“Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review
Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during... Read more >
Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Written by Erik Larson
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $16.00
“Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review
Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during... Read more >
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unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
Angel of Auschwitz
A Spiritual Memoir of Forgiveness and Healing
Written by Tarra Light
Format: eBook, 216 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $14.95
Natasza Pelinski is a young Polish Jew taken to Auschwitz. Her childhood stolen from her, she quickly matures and in the process discovers she has psychic gifts. She develops a relationship with the ghost of a professor, who becomes her spirit guide. He in turn enlists her aid on a mission... Read more >
A Spiritual Memoir of Forgiveness and Healing
Written by Tarra Light
Format: eBook, 216 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $14.95
Natasza Pelinski is a young Polish Jew taken to Auschwitz. Her childhood stolen from her, she quickly matures and in the process discovers she has psychic gifts. She develops a relationship with the ghost of a professor, who becomes her spirit guide. He in turn enlists her aid on a mission... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Crossing the Borders of Time
A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
Written by Leslie Maitland
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $27.95
A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
Written by Leslie Maitland
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $27.95
On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried from the arms of the Catholic Frenchman she loved and promised to marry. As the Lipari...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Crossing the Borders of Time
A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
Written by Leslie Maitland
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $16.99
A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
Written by Leslie Maitland
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $16.99
On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried from the arms of the Catholic Frenchman she loved and promised to marry. As the Lipari...
Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Simon Wiesenthal
The Life and Legends
Written by Tom Segev
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $16.95
The Life and Legends
Written by Tom Segev
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $16.95
With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations
Now in paperback, the first fully documented biography of the legendary Polish-born Nazi hunter—a revelatory account of a man whose life, though part invention, was wholly dedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible for their crimes and that their destruction of European Jewry...
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unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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A Century of Wisdom
Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor
Written by Caroline Stoessinger
Foreword by Vaclav Havel
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $23.00
An inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism—the true story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest living Holocaust survivor.
At 108 years old, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer is an eyewitness to the entire last century and the first decade of this one. She has seen it all, surviving... Read more >
Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor
Written by Caroline Stoessinger
Foreword by Vaclav Havel
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $23.00
An inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism—the true story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest living Holocaust survivor.
At 108 years old, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer is an eyewitness to the entire last century and the first decade of this one. She has seen it all, surviving... Read more >
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A Century of Wisdom
Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor
Written by Caroline Stoessinger
Foreword by Vaclav Havel
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $11.99
An inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism—the true story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest living Holocaust survivor.
At 108 years old, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer is an eyewitness to the entire last century and the first decade of this one. She has seen it all, surviving... Read more >
Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor
Written by Caroline Stoessinger
Foreword by Vaclav Havel
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $11.99
An inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism—the true story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest living Holocaust survivor.
At 108 years old, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer is an eyewitness to the entire last century and the first decade of this one. She has seen it all, surviving... Read more >
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A Century of Wisdom
Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor
Written by Caroline Stoessinger
Read by Linda Korn
Foreword by Vaclav Havel
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $35.00
An inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism—the true story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest living Holocaust survivor.
At 108 years old, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer is an eyewitness to the entire last century and the first decade of this one. She has seen it all, surviving... Read more >
Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor
Written by Caroline Stoessinger
Read by Linda Korn
Foreword by Vaclav Havel
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $35.00
An inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism—the true story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest living Holocaust survivor.
At 108 years old, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer is an eyewitness to the entire last century and the first decade of this one. She has seen it all, surviving... Read more >
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A Century of Wisdom
Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor
Written by Caroline Stoessinger
Read by Linda Korn
Foreword by Vaclav Havel
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $20.00
An inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism—the true story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest living Holocaust survivor.
At 108 years old, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer is an eyewitness to the entire last century and the first decade of this one. She has seen it all, surviving... Read more >
Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor
Written by Caroline Stoessinger
Read by Linda Korn
Foreword by Vaclav Havel
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $20.00
An inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism—the true story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest living Holocaust survivor.
At 108 years old, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer is an eyewitness to the entire last century and the first decade of this one. She has seen it all, surviving... Read more >
World War II German Police Units
Written by Gordon Williamson
Illustrated by Gerry Embleton
Format: eBook, 434 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $13.99
The wartime Police were headed by Himmler as chief of the SS; and throughout the occupied nations the regional SS commanders were specifically termed 'Higher SS and Police Leaders'. Hitler's police was not a single service, but a vast machinery which included many special categories ranging from conventional criminal detectives, and... Read more >
Written by Gordon Williamson
Illustrated by Gerry Embleton
Format: eBook, 434 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $13.99
The wartime Police were headed by Himmler as chief of the SS; and throughout the occupied nations the regional SS commanders were specifically termed 'Higher SS and Police Leaders'. Hitler's police was not a single service, but a vast machinery which included many special categories ranging from conventional criminal detectives, and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
