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Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
Written by Anne Frank
Read by Kathe Mazur
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $15.00
The candid, poignant, unforgettable writing of the young girl whose own life story has become an everlasting source of courage and inspiration.
Hiding from the Nazis in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her... Read more >
Written by Anne Frank
Read by Kathe Mazur
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $15.00
The candid, poignant, unforgettable writing of the young girl whose own life story has become an everlasting source of courage and inspiration.
Hiding from the Nazis in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her... Read more >
The Liberators
America's Witnesses to the Holocaust
Written by Michael Hirsh
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Price: $15.99
At last, the everyday fighting men who were the first Americans to know the full and horrifying truth about the Holocaust share their astonishing stories. Rich with powerful never-before-published details from the author’s interviews with more than 150 U.S. soldiers who liberated the Nazi death camps, The Liberators is an essential... Read more >
America's Witnesses to the Holocaust
Written by Michael Hirsh
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 16, 2010
Price: $15.99
At last, the everyday fighting men who were the first Americans to know the full and horrifying truth about the Holocaust share their astonishing stories. Rich with powerful never-before-published details from the author’s interviews with more than 150 U.S. soldiers who liberated the Nazi death camps, The Liberators is an essential... Read more >
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Hitler's Private Library
The Books That Shaped His Life
Written by Timothy W. Ryback
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $16.95
A Washington Post Notable Book
With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race
In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hitler’s life, Timothy Ryback examines the books that shaped the man and his thinking.
Hitler was better known for burning books... Read more >
The Books That Shaped His Life
Written by Timothy W. Ryback
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $16.95
A Washington Post Notable Book
With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race
In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hitler’s life, Timothy Ryback examines the books that shaped the man and his thinking.
Hitler was better known for burning books... Read more >
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The Girls of Room 28
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Written by Hannelore Brenner
Translated by John E. Woods and Shelley Frisch
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $27.50
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
The... Read more >
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Written by Hannelore Brenner
Translated by John E. Woods and Shelley Frisch
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $27.50
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
The... Read more >
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The Girls of Room 28
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Written by Hannelore Brenner
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $16.99
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
The... Read more >
Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
Written by Hannelore Brenner
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $16.99
From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it.
The... Read more >
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Gertruda's Oath
A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II
Written by Ram Oren
Translated by Barbara Harshav
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $11.99
Trapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler’s List.
Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old... Read more >
A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II
Written by Ram Oren
Translated by Barbara Harshav
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $11.99
Trapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler’s List.
Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Witness
One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story
Written by Ruth Gruber
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $16.99
With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words and photographs.
One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story
Written by Ruth Gruber
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $16.99
With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words and photographs.
In Witness, Gruber writes about what she saw and...
Read more >
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hardcover.
Nazism and War
Written by Richard Bessel
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2009
Price: $11.99
The Second World War was the defining event of the twentieth century, leaving millions dead and redrawing the political map in ways that continue to affect nearly the entire human race. What was unprecedented, however, was not simply the war’s scale, but its causes. Unlike previous territorial or political clashes, the... Read more >
Written by Richard Bessel
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2009
Price: $11.99
The Second World War was the defining event of the twentieth century, leaving millions dead and redrawing the political map in ways that continue to affect nearly the entire human race. What was unprecedented, however, was not simply the war’s scale, but its causes. Unlike previous territorial or political clashes, the... Read more >
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Angel of Auschwitz
A Spiritual Memoir of Forgiveness and Healing
Written by Tarra Light
Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $18.95
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: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $18.95
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 >
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eBook.
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Who Will Write Our History?
Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
Written by Samuel D. Kassow
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $18.00
In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundereds of thousands as... Read more >
Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
Written by Samuel D. Kassow
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $18.00
In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle the lives of hundereds of thousands as... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
A Chosen Few
The Resurrection of European Jewry
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $11.99
A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN
IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR
Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish... Read more >
The Resurrection of European Jewry
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $11.99
A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN
IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR
Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
Written by Anne Frank
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $5.99
Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.
Tales from the Secret Annex is... Read more >
Written by Anne Frank
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $5.99
Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.
Tales from the Secret Annex is... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
paperback.
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Letters from Nuremberg
My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice
Written by Christopher Dodd
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $15.95
For some sixty years, the Nuremberg trials have demonstrated the resolve of the United States and its fellow Allied victors of the Second World War to uphold the principles of dispassionate justice and the rule of law even when cries of vengeance threatened to carry the day. In the summer of... Read more >
My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice
Written by Christopher Dodd
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $15.95
For some sixty years, the Nuremberg trials have demonstrated the resolve of the United States and its fellow Allied victors of the Second World War to uphold the principles of dispassionate justice and the rule of law even when cries of vengeance threatened to carry the day. In the summer of... Read more >
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eBook.
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Hitler's Private Library
Written by Timothy W. Ryback
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $12.99
A Washington Post Notable Book
With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race
In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hitler’s life, Timothy Ryback examines the books that shaped the man and his thinking.
Hitler was better known for burning books... Read more >
Written by Timothy W. Ryback
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $12.99
A Washington Post Notable Book
With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race
In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hitler’s life, Timothy Ryback examines the books that shaped the man and his thinking.
Hitler was better known for burning books... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
After Daybreak
The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 1945
Written by Ben Shephard
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.99
“I find it hard even now to get into focus all these horrors, my mind is really quite incapable of taking in everything I saw because it was all so completely foreign to everything I had previously believed or thought possible.” British Major Ben Barnett’s words echoed the sentiments shared by... Read more >
The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 1945
Written by Ben Shephard
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.99
“I find it hard even now to get into focus all these horrors, my mind is really quite incapable of taking in everything I saw because it was all so completely foreign to everything I had previously believed or thought possible.” British Major Ben Barnett’s words echoed the sentiments shared by... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Behind Enemy Lines
The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany
Written by Marthe Cohn and Wendy Holden
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Marthe Cohn was in her late teens when Hitler was rising to power. Living across the German border in Alsace-Lorraine, her family began taking in Jews who were fleeing the Nazis, as well as the Jewish children being sent away by terrified parents. Soon her own homeland was under Nazi rule... Read more >
The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany
Written by Marthe Cohn and Wendy Holden
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Marthe Cohn was in her late teens when Hitler was rising to power. Living across the German border in Alsace-Lorraine, her family began taking in Jews who were fleeing the Nazis, as well as the Jewish children being sent away by terrified parents. Soon her own homeland was under Nazi rule... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Fear
Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz
Written by Jan Gross
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.99
Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz
Written by Jan Gross
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.99
Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives as a result. More than half the casualties were Polish Jews. Thus, the second largest Jewish community in the world–only American Jewry numbered more than the three and a half...
Read more >
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Justice at Dachau
The Trials of an American Prosecutor
Written by Joshua Greene
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.99
The world remembers Nuremberg, where a handful of Nazi policymakers were brought to justice, but nearly forgotten are the proceedings at Dachau, where hundreds of Nazi guards, officers, and doctors stood trial for personally taking part in the torture and execution of prisoners inside the Dachau, Mauthausen, Flossenburg, and Buchenwald concentration... Read more >
The Trials of an American Prosecutor
Written by Joshua Greene
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.99
The world remembers Nuremberg, where a handful of Nazi policymakers were brought to justice, but nearly forgotten are the proceedings at Dachau, where hundreds of Nazi guards, officers, and doctors stood trial for personally taking part in the torture and execution of prisoners inside the Dachau, Mauthausen, Flossenburg, and Buchenwald concentration... Read more >
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Masters of Death
The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
Written by Richard Rhodes
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
In Masters of Death, Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen’s role in the Holocaust. These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final Solution... Read more >
The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
Written by Richard Rhodes
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
In Masters of Death, Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen’s role in the Holocaust. These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final Solution... Read more >
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A Moral Reckoning
The Role of the Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair
Written by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
With his first book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen dramatically revised our understanding of the role ordinary Germans played in the Holocaust. Now he brings his formidable powers of research and argument to bear on the Catholic Church and its complicity in the destruction of European Jewry. What emerges is... Read more >
The Role of the Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair
Written by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
With his first book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen dramatically revised our understanding of the role ordinary Germans played in the Holocaust. Now he brings his formidable powers of research and argument to bear on the Catholic Church and its complicity in the destruction of European Jewry. What emerges is... Read more >
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The Nuremberg Interviews
Written by Leon Goldensohn
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.99
During the Nuremberg trials, Dr. Leon Goldensohn–a psychiatrist for the U.S. Army–monitored the mental health of two dozen German leaders charged with carrying out genocide. These recorded conversations have gone largely unexamined for more than fifty years, until Robert Gellately–one of the premier historians of Nazi Germany–made them available to the... Read more >
Written by Leon Goldensohn
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.99
During the Nuremberg trials, Dr. Leon Goldensohn–a psychiatrist for the U.S. Army–monitored the mental health of two dozen German leaders charged with carrying out genocide. These recorded conversations have gone largely unexamined for more than fifty years, until Robert Gellately–one of the premier historians of Nazi Germany–made them available to the... Read more >
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Witnesses of War
Children's Lives Under the Nazis
Written by Nicholas Stargardt
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
Children were at the center of the Nazi ideology; now we have their history of those years. In this groundbreaking study–based on a wide range of new sources–Nicholas Stargardt details what happened to children of all nationalities and religions living under the Nazi regime. Their stories open a world we have... Read more >
Children's Lives Under the Nazis
Written by Nicholas Stargardt
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
Children were at the center of the Nazi ideology; now we have their history of those years. In this groundbreaking study–based on a wide range of new sources–Nicholas Stargardt details what happened to children of all nationalities and religions living under the Nazi regime. Their stories open a world we have... Read more >
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I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors
Written by Bernice Eisenstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $19.99
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors distills, through text and drawings, including panels in the comic-book format, Bernice Eisenstein’s memories of her 1950s’ childhood in Toronto with her Yiddish-speaking parents, whose often unspoken experiences of war were nevertheless always present. The memories also draw on inherited fragments of stories about... Read more >
Written by Bernice Eisenstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $19.99
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors distills, through text and drawings, including panels in the comic-book format, Bernice Eisenstein’s memories of her 1950s’ childhood in Toronto with her Yiddish-speaking parents, whose often unspoken experiences of war were nevertheless always present. The memories also draw on inherited fragments of stories about... Read more >
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Letters from Nuremberg
My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice
Written by Christopher Dodd and Lary Bloom
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $11.99
For some sixty years, the Nuremberg trials have demonstrated the resolve of the United States and its fellow Allied victors of the Second World War to uphold the principles of dispassionate justice and the rule of law even when cries of vengeance threatened to carry the day. In the summer of... Read more >
My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice
Written by Christopher Dodd and Lary Bloom
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $11.99
For some sixty years, the Nuremberg trials have demonstrated the resolve of the United States and its fellow Allied victors of the Second World War to uphold the principles of dispassionate justice and the rule of law even when cries of vengeance threatened to carry the day. In the summer of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Fear
Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz
Written by Jan Gross
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $17.00
Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives as a result. More than half the casualties were Polish Jews. Thus, the second largest Jewish community in the world–only American Jewry numbered more than the three and a half... Read more >
Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz
Written by Jan Gross
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $17.00
Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives as a result. More than half the casualties were Polish Jews. Thus, the second largest Jewish community in the world–only American Jewry numbered more than the three and a half... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
