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A Stranger in the Land
Written by Daniel Cil Brecher
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $15.95
A critical appraisal of the politics of Jewish identity after the Holocaust and a passionate memoir by an Israeli dissenter.
in 1984, Daniel Cil Brecher, then a reservist in the Education Corps of the Israeli army, refuses to cross into occupied Lebanon to deliver a morale-boosting lecture to Israeli troops fighting there... Read more >
Written by Daniel Cil Brecher
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $15.95
A critical appraisal of the politics of Jewish identity after the Holocaust and a passionate memoir by an Israeli dissenter.
in 1984, Daniel Cil Brecher, then a reservist in the Education Corps of the Israeli army, refuses to cross into occupied Lebanon to deliver a morale-boosting lecture to Israeli troops fighting there... Read more >
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Witness
One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story
Written by Ruth Gruber
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $28.95
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.
Gruber’s life has been extraordinary and extraordinarily heroic. She... Read more >
One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story
Written by Ruth Gruber
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $28.95
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.
Gruber’s life has been extraordinary and extraordinarily heroic. She... Read more >
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A Guest in My Own Country
Written by George Konrad
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $17.95
Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography & Memoir
A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals.
When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed to flee to Budapest from the... Read more >
Written by George Konrad
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $17.95
Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography & Memoir
A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals.
When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed to flee to Budapest from the... Read more >
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Witnesses of War
Children's Lives Under the Nazis
Written by Nicholas Stargardt
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $16.95
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: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $16.95
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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Nazism and War
Written by Richard Bessel
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $16.00
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: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $16.00
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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The Story of a Life
Written by Aharon Appelfeld
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $14.00
When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown. They penned the Jews into a ghetto and eventually sent whoever had not been shot or starved to death on a forced march across the Ukraine to a labor camp. As men, women, and children fall away around... Read more >
Written by Aharon Appelfeld
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $14.00
When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown. They penned the Jews into a ghetto and eventually sent whoever had not been shot or starved to death on a forced march across the Ukraine to a labor camp. As men, women, and children fall away around... Read more >
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Man's Search for Meaning
Written by Viktor Frankl
Afterword by William J. Winslade
Foreword by Harold S. Kushner
Format: Paperback, 184 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2006
Price: $8.99
With a new Foreword by Harold S. Kushner
and a new Biographical Afterword by William J. Winslade
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including... Read more >
Written by Viktor Frankl
Afterword by William J. Winslade
Foreword by Harold S. Kushner
Format: Paperback, 184 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2006
Price: $8.99
With a new Foreword by Harold S. Kushner
and a new Biographical Afterword by William J. Winslade
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including... Read more >
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Man's Search for Meaning
Written by Viktor Frankl
Afterword by William J. Winslade
Foreword by Harold S. Kushner
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2006
Price: $14.00
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the... Read more >
Written by Viktor Frankl
Afterword by William J. Winslade
Foreword by Harold S. Kushner
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2006
Price: $14.00
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the... Read more >
Man's Search for Meaning
Written by Viktor Frankl
Afterword by William J. Winslade
Foreword by Harold S. Kushner
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 1, 2006
Price: $14.00
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the... Read more >
Written by Viktor Frankl
Afterword by William J. Winslade
Foreword by Harold S. Kushner
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 1, 2006
Price: $14.00
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the... Read more >
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The Woman from Hamburg
and Other True Stories
Written by Hanna Krall
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2006
Price: $14.95
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: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2006
Price: $14.95
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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Soldiers and Slaves
American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble
Written by Roger Cohen
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $15.00
In February of 1945, 350 American POWs, selected because they were Jews, thought to resemble Jews or simply by malicious caprice, were transported by cattle car to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany. Here, the soldiers were worked to death, starved and brutalized; more than twenty percent died from this... Read more >
American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble
Written by Roger Cohen
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $15.00
In February of 1945, 350 American POWs, selected because they were Jews, thought to resemble Jews or simply by malicious caprice, were transported by cattle car to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany. Here, the soldiers were worked to death, starved and brutalized; more than twenty percent died from this... Read more >
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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: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $16.00
Marthe Cohn was a beautiful young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by their terrified parents. But soon her homeland was also under Nazi rule. As the Nazi occupation escalated... Read more >
The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany
Written by Marthe Cohn and Wendy Holden
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $16.00
Marthe Cohn was a beautiful young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by their terrified parents. But soon her homeland was also under Nazi rule. As the Nazi occupation escalated... Read more >
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After Daybreak
The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 1945
Written by Ben Shephard
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2005
Price: $25.00
“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: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2005
Price: $25.00
“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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The Nuremberg Interviews
Written by Leon Goldensohn
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $19.95
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: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $19.95
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Woman from Hamburg
and Other True Stories
Written by Hanna Krall
Format: Hardcover, 260 pages
On Sale: June 17, 2005
Price: $19.00
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: Hardcover, 260 pages
On Sale: June 17, 2005
Price: $19.00
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 >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Soldiers and Slaves
American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble
Written by Roger Cohen
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $11.99
In February of 1945, 350 American POWs, selected because they were Jews, thought to resemble Jews or simply by malicious caprice, were transported by cattle car to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany. Here, the soldiers were worked to death, starved and brutalized; more than twenty percent died from this... Read more >
American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble
Written by Roger Cohen
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $11.99
In February of 1945, 350 American POWs, selected because they were Jews, thought to resemble Jews or simply by malicious caprice, were transported by cattle car to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany. Here, the soldiers were worked to death, starved and brutalized; more than twenty percent died from this... Read more >
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abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Legends of Our Time
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2004
Price: $12.95
A collection of tales immortalizing the heroic deeds and visions of people Wiesel knew during and after World War II. Read more >
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2004
Price: $12.95
A collection of tales immortalizing the heroic deeds and visions of people Wiesel knew during and after World War II. Read more >
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eBook.
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On the Natural History of Destruction
Written by W.G. Sebald
Translated by Anthea Bell
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 17, 2004
Price: $15.00
During World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died—a figure twice that of all American war casualties. Seven and a half million Germans were left homeless. Given the astonishing scope of the devastation, W... Read more >
Written by W.G. Sebald
Translated by Anthea Bell
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 17, 2004
Price: $15.00
During World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died—a figure twice that of all American war casualties. Seven and a half million Germans were left homeless. Given the astonishing scope of the devastation, W... Read more >
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eBook.
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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: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $16.00
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: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $16.00
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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eBook.
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Holocaust Voices
Written by Alexander J. Groth
Format: Hardcover, 278 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Price: $35.99
Intellectuals, historians, scholars, journalists, and philosophers have written much about the Holocaust. Here, for the first time, the focus is on the judgment of the eyewitness victims. What larger meaning do survivors themselves draw from their personal memories about the Holocaust? How do they relate their views to the contemporary world?
Political... Read more >
Written by Alexander J. Groth
Format: Hardcover, 278 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Price: $35.99
Intellectuals, historians, scholars, journalists, and philosophers have written much about the Holocaust. Here, for the first time, the focus is on the judgment of the eyewitness victims. What larger meaning do survivors themselves draw from their personal memories about the Holocaust? How do they relate their views to the contemporary world?
Political... Read more >
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Masters of Death
The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
Written by Richard Rhodes
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $17.95
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: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $17.95
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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Hitler and the Holocaust
Written by Robert S. Wistrich
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2003
Price: $15.00
Hitler and the Holocaust is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewry. Robert S. Wistrich examines Europe’s long history of violence against its Jewish populations, looks at the forces that shaped Hitler’s belief in a “satanic Jewish... Read more >
Written by Robert S. Wistrich
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2003
Price: $15.00
Hitler and the Holocaust is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewry. Robert S. Wistrich examines Europe’s long history of violence against its Jewish populations, looks at the forces that shaped Hitler’s belief in a “satanic Jewish... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
