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The Box with the Sunflower Clasp: Uncovering a Jewish Family's Flight

The Box with the Sunflower Clasp: Uncovering a Jewish Family's Flight

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Rachel Meller was never close to her aunt Lisbeth, a cool, unemotional woman with a drawling Viennese-Californian accent, a cigarette in her hand. But when Lisbeth died, she left Rachel...
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of

The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of

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THE BELOVED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A] narrative of unfathomable courage" Wall Street Journal The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Helene Podliasky, who led a...
Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy: Out of the Smoke/into the Smother/the

Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy: Out of the Smoke/into the Smother/the

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Ray Parkin's famous trilogy of wartime experience is published here for the first time in a single paperback volume. These brilliant books hum with action, adventure and courage. Honestly and...
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

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Ian Buruma's grandparents, Bernard Schlesinger and Winifred Regensburg (Winnie & Bun), wrote to each other regularly over their sixty years together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bernard...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets

Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets

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A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author...
The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi

The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi

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The extraordinary true story of the Holocaust survivor who endured six death camps before joining the hunt for the Nazis and bringing his tormentors to justice. **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**...
The Jungle is Neutral: The World Famous True Story of Guerilla Warfare

The Jungle is Neutral: The World Famous True Story of Guerilla Warfare

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"The Jungle is Neutral" is British soldier, Spencer Chapman's incredible story of his three and a half years in the Malayan jungle during World War II. A moving unforgettable saga...
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

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A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor J zsef Debreczeni A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first...
A WWII Soldier in the Pacific: During and After 1943-1945

A WWII Soldier in the Pacific: During and After 1943-1945

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Anyone familiar with WWII studies in the Pacific will recognize the name Eugene B. Sledge. The author, who corresponded with Sledge 30 years ago, shared the experience of serving on...
Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime

Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime

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A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France. As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many...
No Place to Lay One's Head: with a preface from Patrick Modiano

No Place to Lay One's Head: with a preface from Patrick Modiano

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An extraordinary story of one woman's attempt to survive the horrors of Vichy France. A bitter, beautiful and important book Robert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENT The French sensation, now in English...
Gazing at the Stars: Memories of a Child Survivor

Gazing at the Stars: Memories of a Child Survivor

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Narrated with the heartbreaking innocence of a thirteen-year-old girl and the wisdom of a woman of eighty-two, Gazing at the Stars is a record of survival in the face of...
I Must Belong Somewhere: An extraordinary family tale of survival

I Must Belong Somewhere: An extraordinary family tale of survival

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'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, fled the Russian threat in Ukraine for Vienna in 1914. Blinded in the First World War, he...
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS 'I'm not sure I've ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the...
Lucky Johnny: The Footballer who Survived the River Kwai Death Camps

Lucky Johnny: The Footballer who Survived the River Kwai Death Camps

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In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career, touring the world with the all-star British team the Islington Corinthians. By 1942 he...
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS 'I'm not sure I've ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the...
Two Journeys into Peril: Wartime Letters of Ken and Ron Sillcock, 1941-1945

Two Journeys into Peril: Wartime Letters of Ken and Ron Sillcock, 1941-1945

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American Pimpernel: The Man Who Saved the Artists on Hitler's Death List

American Pimpernel: The Man Who Saved the Artists on Hitler's Death List

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Diary of a Wartime Naval Constructor: Sir Stanley Goodall

Diary of a Wartime Naval Constructor: Sir Stanley Goodall

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Sister Sister

Sister Sister

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Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

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What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was expropriated under the Nazi regime. Alice Urbach had her...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets

Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets

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A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author...
Cat's Grin: A Novel

Cat's Grin: A Novel

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Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

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The incredible eyewitness account of wartime resistance, now in paperback 'Insistently asks the question- What would you do? Would you fight, or acquiesce, or collaborate? ... Karski was deeply patriotic...
Conversations With Stalin

Conversations With Stalin

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Written by a Communist insider, a candid portrait of one of the most dangerous men in history This extraordinarily vivid and unnerving book three meetings held with Stalin during and...
Going Solo

Going Solo

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Roald Dahl's canon of family stories and poetry with collectable new covers featuring Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and archive material provided by the Roald Dahl Museum. It was truly the...
Stories My Grandmothers Didn't Tell Me: Two women's journeys from war-torn Europe to a new life in Australia

Stories My Grandmothers Didn't Tell Me: Two women's journeys from war-torn Europe to a new life in Australia

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Winner of the Canberra Critics' Circle Memoir/History Award 2024 As children, we'd sneak into Grandma's bedroom on secret missions. Her cupboard was filled with old fur coats, strange woven folk...
Surviving the Death Railway: A Pow's Memoir and Letters from Home

Surviving the Death Railway: A Pow's Memoir and Letters from Home

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The ordeals of the POWs put to slave labour by their Japanese masters on the 'Burma Railway' have been well documented yet never cease to shock. It is impossible not...
Surviving the Death Railway: A Pow's Memoir and Letters from Home

Surviving the Death Railway: A Pow's Memoir and Letters from Home

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The ordeals of the POWs put to slave labour by their Japanese masters on the 'Burma Railway' have been well documented yet never cease to shock. It is impossible not...
A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust

A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust

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The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

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I Must Belong Somewhere: Three men. Two migrations. One endless journey.

I Must Belong Somewhere: Three men. Two migrations. One endless journey.

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Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

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"A remarkable and important story" BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour"Unputdownable . . . Urbach has also retold the tragic Holocaust story in quite unforgettable lines" A.N. Wilson"In a remarkable new...
I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

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Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism

Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of

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The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes-a Native American icon and World War II legend that spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA...
The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace

The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace

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'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person . can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than...
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely [...]

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When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story

Finding Home: A Windrush Story

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On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them...
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

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The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz

The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz

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'You are no longer a number' Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the breaks. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity,...
The Nazis Knew My Name: A remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz

The Nazis Knew My Name: A remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz

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SAS Brothers in Arms: Churchill's Desperadoes: Blood-and-Guts Defiance at Britain's Darkest Hour.

SAS Brothers in Arms: Churchill's Desperadoes: Blood-and-Guts Defiance at Britain's Darkest Hour.

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Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Absolutely gripping from the word go' Alexis Conran, Times Radio 'A convincing insight into the terror and adrenaline rush of war'...
Among You Taking Notes...

Among You Taking Notes...

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Author: Naomi Mitchison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as...
Among You Taking Notes...

Among You Taking Notes...

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Author: Naomi Mitchison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as...
Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day: My Autobiography - The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller

Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day: My Autobiography - The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller

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The Diary of Petr Ginz

The Diary of Petr Ginz

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Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter

Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter

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Author: Emma Soames Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'A daily love letter from a brave young woman to her adored father . . . immensely evocative of wartime Britain,...
SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes

SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes

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Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee Child SAS Great Escapes Two recounts the hitherto untold...