History / Holocaust

The Cap: The Price of a Life

by Roman Frister & Hillel Halkin

Uncompromisingly frank, "both brutal and beautifully written" (The Boston Globe), The Cap is an unconventional Holocaust memoir that defies all moral judgment and ventures into a soul blackened by the unforgiving...

Commander of the Exodus

by Yoram Kaniuk & Seymour Simckes

Hailed by The New York Times as "one of the most inventive, brilliant novelists in the Western world," internationally renowned Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk turns his hand to nonfiction to bring us his most important...

Ballpoint: A Tale of Genius and Grit, Perilous Times, and the Invention that Changed the Way We Write

by Gyoergy Moldova & David Robert Evans

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...

Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis

by Daniel B. Silver

How did Berlin's Jewish Hospital, in the middle of the Nazi capital, survive as an institution where Jewish doctors and nurses cared for Jewish patients throughout World War II? How could it happen that when...

The Smell of Smoke

by Cinzia Donatelli Noble

The deportees into Nazi extermination camps charge the Shoà as the unutterable experience of the twentieth century that remains unsurpassed. They serve as witnesses of an event that, more than any other event,...

Showbiz, and More

by Allan Wargon & Bowen Bailie &

This novella, poetry and these short stories cover the entire range of human emotion.

The novella, Showbiz, tells the story of an unusual man's great achievements and reach for an ideal, only to have everything...

Justice at Dachau: The Trials of an American Prosecutor

by Joshua Greene

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...

Ein Volk, Ein Reich: Nine Lives Under the Nazis

by Louis Hagen

When Louis Hagen returned to Berlin immediately after the war, having survived not only incarceration and torture in a German concentration camp but also the Battle of Arnhem, it was through a desire to see...

Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble

by Roger Cohen

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....

Never Look Back: The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain, 1938-1945

by Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

Between December 1938 and September 1939, nearly ten thousand refugee children from Central Europe, mostly Jewish, found refuge from Nazism in Great Britain. This was known as the Kindertransport movement, in...

Hitler's Private Library

by Timothy W. Ryback

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...

The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials

by Telford Taylor

Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice

by Christopher Dodd & Lary Bloom

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...

The Lost Childhood: The Complete Memoir

by Yehuda Nir & Cynthia Ozick

This compelling memoir takes readers through the eyes of a child surviving World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a nine-year-old, the author witnessed his father being herded into a truck—never to be seen...

The Roma Struggle for Compensation in Post-War Germany

by Julia von dem von dem Knesebeck

Thirty years passed before it was accepted—in West Germany and elsewhere—that the Roma (Gypsies) of Germany had been Holocaust victims. Drawing upon a substantial body of previously unseen sources, this record...

Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust

by Richard Rhodes

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...

Witnesses of War: Children's Lives Under the Nazis

by Nicholas Stargardt

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...

Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

by Marilyn Herbert & Adina Herbert

It is 1939 and times are getting tough for everyone in Germany. Ten-year old Liesel and her brother are on their way to be adopted into a foster home, but sadly, the brother dies en route. After his burial,...

A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor

by Caroline Stoessinger & Vaclav Havel

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...

Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris

by David King

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...