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The Survivor by Josef Lewkowicz
The Survivor: How I Made it Through Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter When Nazi forces entered Kraków, Poland in 1939, unexpected and unresisted, Josef Lewkowicz’s life became a nightmare overnight as he and his family were rounded up and sent to concentration camps across German-occupied territory. It wasn’t long before Josef found…
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Another Soul Saved by John Anthony Miller
Vienna, 1941Monika Graf, the wife of a wealthy Austrian military commander, steals two Jewish girls from the Nazis—a crime often punishable by death. With soldiers in rapid pursuit, a homeless Jew named Janik, a mysterious man who lurks in the shadows, helps her escape. This post contains Affiliate Links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn…
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The Days Before Tomorrow by Mark Hass
An epic tale of war, family and the enduring power of the human spirit The borders changed. The neighbors stayed. The trouble began. In this moving, coming-of-age novel set in the heart of Eastern Europe during the years between the World Wars, a random act of violence by local anti-Semitic thugs casts Wolchi, a trusting…
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The Train Near Magdeburg by Richard J. Evans
A Teacher’s Journey into the Holocaust, and the reuniting of the survivors and liberators, 70 years on… ~THE HOLOCAUST was a watershed event in history. Drawing on never-before published eye-witness accounts, survivor testimony and memoirs, wartime reports and letters, Matthew Rozell takes us on his journey to uncover the stories behind the incredible 1945 liberation photographs…
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The Coming of The Third Reich by Richard J. Evans
The definitive account of Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany, from the author of The Third Reich in Power, The Third Reich at War, and Hitler’s People There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The…
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Double Cross by Ben Macintyre
On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military achievement, it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude, which protected and enabled the invasion, and the Double Cross system, which specialized in turning German spies into double agents, tricked…
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Under The Java Moon by Heather B. Moore
Java Island, 1941 Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family’s dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java―living with other Dutch families―had always been peaceful, but when Holland declares war on Japan and the Japanese army invades Indonesia, Rita’s family is forced to relocate to…
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When The War Is Over by Anja May
A Two-Part Series set in WWII Germany Book 1 of 2 (Set in WWll Germany) When Anton witnesses the slaughter of concentration camp prisoners, he vows to escape the war and find a way home to his family and his girl, Luise. In the chaos of impending defeat, Anton is torn between his promise to…
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The Things our Fathers Saw by Matthew A. Rozell
The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA-Voices of the Pacific Theater How soon we forget. Or perhaps, we were never told. That is understandable, given what they saw. But it happened. I was talking to a shipmate of mine waiting for the motor launch, and all at once I saw…
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Book and Dagger by Elyse Graham
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed―and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the…