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Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht
RRP: £11.99£8.68A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women... -
Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel
RRP: £7.99£5.66How identity politics failed one particular identity. 'a must read and if you think YOU don't need to read it, that's just the clue to know you do.' SARAH SILVERMAN 'a masterpiece.'STEPHEN FRY ... -
Spies of No Country: Israel's Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad by Matti Friedman
RRP: £12.99£8.43"Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing." -The New York Times Book Review Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the... -
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--And Revenge by Edward Kritzler
RRP: £19.00£11.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767919524Author Edward KritzlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire by Daniel Gross
RRP: £24.99£17.12Who was Edmond J. Safra? "The greatest banker of his generation," in the estimation of a former World Bank President. The founder of four massive financial institutions on three continents, and a proud child of Beirut's Jewish quarter. An... -
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku
RRP: £10.99£7.37Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and believed he was the 'happiest man on earth'. In his inspirational memoir, he paid tribute to those who were lost by telling his story and sharing his wisdom.'Eddie looked evil in the eye and... -
Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day by James Holland
RRP: £9.99£7.36'War as it should be described - ordinary men facing extraordinary horror' The Times'Epic and moving...Holland brings this cramped universe vividly to life' Daily Telegraph'Does not disappoint... Holland takes us down to the individual's experience'... -
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen
RRP: £22.99£15.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316221030Author Annie JacobsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 520gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
Escape to Gwrych Castle: A Jewish refugee story by Andrew Hesketh
RRP: £18.99£14.52In 2020 and 2021, at the height of the Covid pandemic, Gwrych Castle was familiar to the British public as the setting of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! Lesser known is that, at the beginning of the Second World War, this once-grand country house... -
Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land: A groundbreaking family history for fans of Edmund de Waal and Philippe Sands by Rachel Cockerell 9781035408917
RRP: £25.00£15.95'A truly radical book; radical in subject, radical in form. For the most tragic reasons, it could not feel more immediate; and yet it's a fluid, fast-paced, hugely enjoyable and engaging read.' - Andrew Marr''Unforgettable... Non fiction will be... -
The Twins of Auschwitz: The inspiring true story of a young girl surviving Mengele's hell by Eva Mozes Kor
RRP: £8.99£6.16THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Nazis spared their lives because they were twins.In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes Kor and her family arrived at Auschwitz.Within thirty minutes, they were separated. Her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas... -
Mobilising Hate: The Story of Hitler's Final Solution by Martin Davidson
RRP: £22.00£14.23'Finally, eight decades on, there comes a convincing reason as to how an entire nation was able to swallow and then endorse the warped ideology of Hitler and the Nazis. Not only a brilliantly argued book, Mobilising Hate is also a grimly compelling and... -
Imperialism and Jewish Society: 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. by Seth Schwartz 9780691117812
RRP: £42.00£39.58This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz... -
The Stable Boy of Auschwitz: A heartbreaking true story of courage and survival by Henry Oster and Dexter Ford
RRP: £8.99£3.76The instant Sunday Times and Amazon charts bestseller"I found myself in the Auschwitz stables, and I felt an ember of hope. If I could make myself useful, helping these horses, maybe I could stay alive."In the darkest moment of history, one child found... -
Shylock's Venice: The Remarkable History of Venice's Jews and the Ghetto by Harry Freedman 9781399407274
RRP: £20.00£14.98The thrilling story of the Jews in Venice - and the truth behind one of Shakespeare's most famous characters. Millions of visitors flood to Venice every year. Yet many are unaware of its history - one of dramatic expansion but also of rapid decline... -
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
RRP: £16.99£12.68A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians.Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour... -
The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz by Eti Elboim 9780008645960
RRP: £9.99£6.77'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, but eventually, the heavy doors opened, directly into the... -
X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis by Leah Garrett
RRP: £9.99£7.36THE UNTOLD STORY OF BRITAIN'S MOST SECRETIVE SPECIAL FORCES UNITJune 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich falls across Europe. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff form an unusual plan - a new commando unit made up of Jewish refugees... -
Music of Exile: The Untold Story of the Composers who Fled Hitler by Michael Haas 9780300266504
RRP: £25.00£21.90What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience? In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler's Germany to make new lives across the globe. The process of exile was complex: although... -
The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Jonathan Schneer 9781408809709
RRP: £16.99£12.28In the middle of the First World War, the British War Cabinet approved and issued a statement in the form of a letter that encouraged the settlement of the Jewish people in Palestine. Signed by the Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, the Balfour... -
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert 9781529073447
RRP: £10.99£7.76The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerThe incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. With a foreword by King Charles III.'Unforgettable' - Daily MailWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in... -
Wannsee: The Road to the Final Solution by Peter Longerich
RRP: £25.00£17.62The complete story of the Wannsee Conference, the meeting that paved the way for the Holocaust. On 20 January 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of the Wannsee in the far-western outskirts of Berlin. They came... -
Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away. by Pelt,,Robert,Jan Van
RRP: £31.99£21.56This book tells a story to shake the conscience of the world. It is the catalogue of the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people-mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others-lost... -
To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 by Victor Klemperer
RRP: £14.99£9.57The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany.'Deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description of the sufferings of the victims of Hitler's evil regime' EVENING STANDARD'Few English readers will fail to... -
The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution by Peter Bradley 9780008475000
RRP: £9.99£6.77'Haunting.' Jonathan Freedland 'Powerful.' Daniel Finkelstein The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain. ... -
Who by Fire: War, Atonement, and the Resurrection of Leonard Cohen by Matti Friedman
RRP: £19.99£13.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954118072Author Matti FriedmanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Spiegel & GrauPublisher Random House USA Inc -
I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41 by Victor Klemperer
RRP: £14.99£9.57A publishing sensation, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period.'A classic ... Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank's' SUNDAY TIMES'I can't... -
Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style by Bethan Bide 9781781301241
RRP: £20.00£14.98Discover the extraordinary stories of the Jewish people who designed, made and sold fashion in twentieth-century London, revealing their vital role in making it an iconic fashion city. While Jewish people have long been associated with making clothes,... -
The Lost: A search for six of six million by Daniel Mendelsohn 9780007550128
RRP: £16.99£11.47A writer's search for his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original and riveting epic, brilliantly exploring the nature of time and memory. 'The Lost' begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the... -
Countrymen: How Denmark's Jews Escaped the Nazis by Bo Lidegaard
RRP: £12.99£9.34The rescue of the Danish Jews from Nazi persecution in October 1943 is a unique exception to the tragic history of the Holocaust. Over fourteen harrowing days, as they were helped, hidden and protected by ordinary people who spontaneously rushed to save... -
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller by Jeremy Dronfield
RRP: £10.99£8.02THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, ALSO AVAILABLE FOR YOUNG READERS AS FRITZ AND KURTDAILY MAIL & SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEARThe inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and survive the Holocaust, for anyone captivated... -
The Spinoza Problem: A Novel by Irvin D. Yalom
RRP: £14.99£9.57A haunting portrait of Arthur Rosenberg, one of Nazism's chief architects, and his obsession with one of history's most influential Jewish thinkersIn The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical drama... -
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
RRP: £18.99£15.45Americans call the Second World War "the Good War." But before it even began, America's ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens-and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and... -
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
RRP: £9.99£6.89THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World... -
The Holocaust: A New History by Laurence Rees
RRP: £14.99£10.95THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER AND THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT FOR 30 YEARS.'By far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development'... -
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller 9781566632713
RRP: £12.99£9.61Filip Muller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and began working in the gassing installations and crematoria in May. He was still alive when the gassings ceased in November 1944. He saw millions come and... -
Maimonides: Faith in Reason by Alberto Manguel
£17.44An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world's foremost bibliophiles Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (1138-1204), was born in Cordoba, Spain. The... -
Parallel Lines by Peter Lantos
RRP: £9.99£6.73"I have read few autobiographies more extraordinary . . . Astonishing" OBSERVER"A classic. I preferred it to Primo Levi's If This is a Man" EDWARD WILSON"A child's clear-eyed journey to hell" ANNE SEBBAThis is a story of a young boy's journey from a... -
The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James McAuley
RRP: £11.99£10.87A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction "The depths of French anti-Semitism is the stunning subject that Mr. McAuley lays bare. . . . [He] tells this haunting saga... -
The Khazars by Mikhail Zhirohov
RRP: £11.99£8.68The Khazars were one of the most important Turkic peoples in European history, dominating vast areas of southeastern Europe and the western reaches of the Central Asian steppes from the 4th to the 11th centuries AD. They were also unique in that their...