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The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis
by Robert M. Edsel
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by Derek B. Miller
Published Jan 2025
Read ReviewsFrom the Dagger Award–winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving World War II art-heist-adventure tale where enemies become heroes, allies become villains, and a child learns what it means to become an adult—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See.
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness
by Charlie English
Published Aug 2021
Read ReviewsThe untold story of Hitler's war on "degenerate" artists and the mentally ill that paved the way for the Holocaust.
by Ayelet Waldman
Published Jan 2015
Read ReviewsA spellbinding new novel of contraband masterpieces, tragic love, and the unexpected legacies of forgotten crimes, Ayelet Waldman's Love and Treasure weaves a tale around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in the Second World War.
by David I. Kertzer
Published Dec 2014
Read ReviewsThe gripping story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work will forever change our understanding of the Vatican's role in the rise of Fascism in Europe.
by Anne Applebaum
Published Aug 2013
Read ReviewsIn the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.
by Jennet Conant
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsAn extraordinary tale of deceit, double-dealing, and moral ambiguity - an insider's view of the counterintelligence game played by the British in Washington during the early days of World War II.
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 Debra Dean
Published Feb 2007
Read ReviewsThe ravages of age are taking their toll on Marina, an elderly Russian woman. While she cannot hold on to fresh memories, her distant past is preserved: vivid images of her youth in war-torn Leningrad, and the exquisite masterpieces of the Hermitage Museum.
by Carol Bergman
Published Oct 2003
Read ReviewsHumanitarian workers define courage in the 21st century. This book gives voice to their stories, to their ability to survive in the face of death, to their humanity to one another and to those they seek to serve.
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