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by Géraldine Schwarz
Published Sep 2022
Read ReviewsThose Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist Géraldine Schwarz's riveting account of her German and French grandparents' lives during World War II, an in-depth history of Europe's post-war reckoning with fascism, and an urgent appeal to remember as a defense against today's rise of far-right nationalism.
by Maria Hummel
Published Jan 2015
Read ReviewsThe novel bears witness to the shame and courage of Third Reich families during the devastating final days of the war, as each family member's fateful choice lead the reader deeper into questions of complicity and innocence, to the novel's heartbreaking and unforgettable conclusion.
by David R. Gillham
Published May 2013
Read ReviewsIt is 1943 - the height of the Second World War - and Berlin has essentially become a city of women. In this page-turning novel, David Gillham explores what happens to ordinary people thrust into extraordinary times, and how the choices they make can be the difference between life and death.
by Julia Franck
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsWinner of the German Book Prize, The Blindness of the Heart is a dark marvel of a novel by one of Europes freshest young voicesa family story spanning two world wars and several generations in a German family.
by Phillipe Claudel
Published Jul 2010
Read ReviewsSet in an unnamed time and place, Brodeck blends the familiar and unfamiliar, myth and history into a work of extraordinary power and resonance. Readers of J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Kafka will be captivated by Brodeck.
by Owen Sheers
Published Feb 2009
Read ReviewsImbued with immense imaginative breadth and confidence, Owen Sheers's debut novel unfolds with the pace and intensity of a thriller. A hymn to the glorious landscape of the Welsh border territories and a portrait of a community under siege.
by Michael Wallner
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsSet in 1943, April In Paris, by first time German novelist Wallner, is the dramatic story of an impossible love between a German soldier and a French Resistance fighter in occupied Paris.
by Irene Nemirovsky
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsThe first two stories of a masterwork once thought lost, written by a pre-WWII bestselling author who was deported to Auschwitz and died before her work could be completed.
by Anonymous
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsThe diary of a young woman, recording her and her neighbors' experiences as, for six weeks in 1945, Berlin fell to the Russian army.
by Irmgard Hunt
Published Feb 2006
Read ReviewsA powerful and riveting account of a seemingly halcyon life lived mere paces from a center of evil and madness; a remarkable memoir of an "ordinary" childhood spent in an extraordinary time and place.
by Peter Duffy
Published May 2004
Read ReviewsThe inspiring and harrowing true story of three brothers who established a hidden base camp in the Belorussian forest eluding the Nazi's extensive efforts to capture them. In July 1944, after two and a half years in the woods, more than one thousand Jewish men, women and children, emerged from the woods triumphant and alive.
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