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For fans of Irena's Children and The Dressmakers of Auschwitz, the never-before-told story of a Jewish daycare director who led one of the most daring rescue operations of World War II, saving 600 children from the Netherlands' Nazi occupiers—“a rare story that reframes the Holocaust...

The definitive, myth-busting history of the wartime SAS – the real story behind the global BBC phenomenon Rogue Heroes, told by the only historian trusted by 75 original SAS veterans. This exciting new history reveals a story far more compelling and real than the dramatic liberties taken in...

A vivid account of the US Eighth Air Force’s raids on Schweinfurt and Regensburg in August and October 1943, their most difficult and costliest missions of World War II. Based on the first-hand accounts of those who survived, renowned aviation historian Tom Cleaver tells the story of the...

This is a history of the Second World War - as you have never heard it before. Dancer, singer and intelligence agent Josephine Baker German Nazi pianist Elly Ney British pianist Myra Hess Composer Avril Coleridge-Taylor Ballerina Tatiana Vecheslova Violinist Alma Rosé, conductor of the...

The riveting life of Dina Vierny, a muse, fearless Nazi resistor, and art collector who dedicated her life to fighting fascism. In the summer of 1940, as France succumbed to Nazi Germany, Dina Vierny posed for famed sculptor Aristide Maillol on the French-Spanish border. Dina was the muse who...

From an acclaimed New Yorker writer, The Comet is the thrilling true story of Dédée de Jongh, the young woman who led a crucial World War II escape network, risking her life to rescue hundreds of Allied airmen. During the Second World War, there was no more dangerous activity for a civilian in...

"The most honest attempt yet to tell how the Battle of Britain really was" —Andrew Wilson, Observer History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of the Battle of Britain, Len Deighton...

A masterwork of moral inquiry from one of the twentieth century’s greatest observers of power, guilt, and justice In A Train of Powder, Rebecca West—one of the great literary journalists of the twentieth century—brings her crystalline intelligence and unsparing moral vision to some of the...

An account of the Long Range Desert Group's overlooked exploits in the last 18 months of World War II. Formed in 1940, the LRDG is best known for operating behind the lines during the North African campaign. However, it also saw significant service elsewhere. After having survived a disastrous...

An urgent history—intimate in its telling, epic in its scope—of an argument that shaped the postwar world: how to define and remember the Holocaust. “Profoundly moving. An extraordinary book—one that I didn’t know could be written. It is essential reading.” —Edmund de Waal, New...

Based on never-before-examined Fascist and Vatican archives, a shocking, groundbreaking history of Italy's 1938 racial laws and the desperate measures thousands of Jewish families took to save themselves before and during World War II, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and bestselling...

Romania had a catastrophic experience during the Second World War: an ally of the Axis in its invasion of the USSR, it then turned against the Nazis and joined the Allies in 1944. Its role in the Holocaust was a complex and terrible one. Dan Stone's remarkable new book tells the full story of...

A deeply personal investigation into the impact of generational trauma on the descendants of survivors and perpetrators. When Joshua Nelken-Zitser sought treatment for panic attacks and an eating disorder, his therapist suggested a cause he’d never considered: generational trauma. The...

The astonishing true story of the high-profile hostages in Colditz Castle and the Nazi general who spared their lives, from David Lascelles, the son of one of the prisoners, George, Earl of Harewood The nephew of the King. The son of the Viceroy of India. Churchill's nephew. Held captive at the...

The Allied leaders rarely spoke directly about the Holocaust in public. When Churchill and Stalin alluded to Nazi mass murder of civilians in early speeches, they said much less than they knew. Not until December 1942 did Allied governments issue a joint statement about Nazi Germany's policy of...

Dane Hans Tofte's remarkable career spanned covert operations in WWII, the OSS, CIA, and Cold War intelligence. When World War II broke out, Dane Hans Tofte gave up his promising career in the maritime industry to come first to the aid of his own country, and then to the assistance of several...

Traces the contrasting World War II experiences of a German anti-Nazi and a loyal Hitler supporter on the Eastern Front. The author’s grandfather despised the Nazis. A farmer’s son from Bavaria, a seasoned political activist and anti-fascist, he was put in a Gestapo prison for over a year...

Examines the disastrous Allied Convoy PQ 17 of 1942, exploring how strategic errors and one critical decision led to its near-destruction. In early June 1941, few optimists would have forecast that beleaguered Britain would see victory or even be joined by new military allies. Yet on June 22...

A riveting, in-the-room account of the pivotal six months in 1941 that turned the tide of World War II, as Churchill and Roosevelt forged a crucial alliance and Hitler squandered his early advantage—from the New York Times bestselling author of Road to Surrender In the summer of 1941, Winston...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Countdown 1945 comes a sweeping account of America's WWII forces in their greatest and deadliest hour. After the success of D-Day and then the sweep across France, the allies are taking a pause in the days before Christmas, 1944, planning for their...