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A Novel
by David R. Gillham
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Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2015 BookBrowse Fiction Award
Vivid and exquisite in its illumination of a time and place that was filled with great monstrosities, but also great humanity and strength, a novel that will have readers talking long after they turn the last page.
by Helen Simonson
Published Feb 2017
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by Lissa Evans
Published Jul 2016
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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 Suzanne Hayes, Loretta Nyhan
Published May 2013
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by Chris Bohjalian
Published Apr 2013
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by Lucretia Grindle
Published Jan 2013
Read ReviewsAlessandro Pallioti, a senior policeman agrees to oversee a murder investigation, after it emerges the victim was once a Partisan hero. When the case begins to unravel, Pallioti finds himself working to uncover a crime lost in the twilight of war, the consequences of which are as deadly today as they were over sixty years ago.
by Hans Fallada
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsThis never-before-translated masterpieceby a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble under the Nazis is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front...
by Sara Young (Pennypacker)
Published Oct 2008
Read ReviewsMining a lost piece of history, Sara Young takes us deep into the lives of women living in the worst of times. Part love story and part elegy for the terrible choices we must often make to survive, My Enemy's Cradle keens for what we lose in war and sings for the hope we sometimes find.
by Diane Ackerman
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsA true story, as powerful as Schindlers List, in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
by Nicholas Stargardt
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsDrawing on an untouched wealth of original material school assignments; juvenile diaries; letters from evacuation camps, reformatories and asylums; letters to fathers at the front lines; even accounts of children's games Nicholas Stargardt breaks stereotypes of victimhood and trauma to give us the gripping individual stories of ...
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