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The Stable Boy of Auschwitz: A heartbreaking true story of courage and survival by Henry Oster and Dexter Ford
RRP: £8.99£3.51The 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... -
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku
RRP: £10.99£7.12Holocaust 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... -
The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand
RRP: £11.99£8.18A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian... -
Safe Passage by Ida Cook
RRP: £10.99£6.35'A breathtaking story' Daily Mail 'Extraordinary' The Telegraph on the Cook sisters Desperate circumstances can cause ordinary women to achieve extraordinary things. No one would have predicted... -
Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style by Bethan Bide 9781781301241
RRP: £20.00£15.38Discover 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 Twins of Auschwitz: The inspiring true story of a young girl surviving Mengele's hell by Eva Mozes Kor
RRP: £8.99£6.20THE 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... -
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen
RRP: £24.99£15.45Apologies 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... -
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£11.75Apologies 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... -
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... -
Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel
RRP: £7.99£5.41How 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 ... -
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£16.78'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... -
Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day by James Holland
RRP: £9.99£7.11'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'... -
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... -
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller by Jeremy Dronfield
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE 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 Lost Cafe Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth by Meriel Schindler
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Rigorously researched, The Lost Cafe Schindler successfully weaves together a compelling and at times deeply moving memoir and family history that also chronicles the wider story of the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian Empire... It distinguishes itself... -
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert 9781529073447
RRP: £10.99£7.51The 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... -
Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away. by Pelt,,Robert,Jan Van
RRP: £31.99£22.21This 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... -
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... -
To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 by Victor Klemperer
RRP: £14.99£9.80The 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... -
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 -
The Boy from Block 66: The Children Saved from the Death March by the Buchenwald Camp Resistance by Limor Regev 9781802472509
RRP: £9.99£6.80January, 1945. 14-year-old Moshe Kessler steps off the train at Buchenwald concentration camp. Having endured the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, lost touch with his entire family, and survived the death march in the freezing European winter, he has seen... -
Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 by Geoffrey Levin 9780300267853
£30.62A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights American Jews began debating Palestinian rights issues even before Israel's founding in 1948. Geoffrey... -
The Last Jews Of Kerala by Edna Fernandes 9781846270994
RRP: £10.99£7.32Separated by a narrow stretch of swamp-like waters, and distinguished by the colour of their skin, the Black Jews and the White Jews have been locked in a rancorous feud for centuries. Only now, when their combined number has diminished to fewer than... -
The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James McAuley
RRP: £12.99£11.46A 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... -
A Tale Of Love And Darkness by Amos Oz
RRP: £10.99£7.77Discover Amos Oz's most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation*OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE*'A hero of mine, a moral as well as... -
Imperialism and Jewish Society: 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. by Seth Schwartz 9780691117812
RRP: £45.00£34.67This 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... -
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller 9781566632713
RRP: £12.99£9.36Filip 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... -
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'... -
Maimonides: Faith in Reason by Alberto Manguel
RRP: £16.99£16.66An 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... -
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018 by Bart van Es
RRP: £9.99£7.11WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2019'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing,... -
The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy by Simon Levis Sullam 9780691209203
RRP: £14.99£11.87A gripping revisionist history that shows how ordinary Italians played a central role in the genocide of Italian Jews during the Second World WarIn this brief history of Italy's role in the Holocaust, Simon Levis Sullam presents an unforgettable account... -
The Khazars by Mikhail Zhirohov
RRP: £12.99£9.09The 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... -
The Box with the Sunflower Clasp: Uncovering a Jewish Family's Flight to Wartime Shanghai by Rachel Meller
RRP: £25.00£16.59'A transfixingly readable amalgam of memoir and history... Superbly written and researched.... [Meller] has turned the raw material of her life into literature'Ian Thomson, author of Primo LeviRachel Meller was never close to her aunt Lisbeth, a cool,... -
Jewish Heritage in Britain and Ireland: An Architectural Guide by Sharman Kadish
RRP: £22.00£20.29Britain's tiny Jewish community (about 263,000 people) is the oldest non-Christian minority in the country. In 1656 Jews returned to England after an absence of nearly 400 years and the Jewish community has enjoyed a history of continuous settlement in... -
The End of Jewish Modernity by Enzo Traverso
RRP: £16.99£11.54Has Jewish modernity exhausted itself? Flourishing between the age of Enlightenment and the Second World War, the intellectual, literary, scientific and artistic legacy of Jewish modernity continues to dazzle us, however, in this provocative new book,... -
Parallel Lines by Peter Lantos
RRP: £9.99£6.80"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 Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
RRP: £9.99£6.64THE 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 Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom by Adam Czerniakow 9781566632300
RRP: £16.99£15.96Adam Czerniakow was a Polish Jew who killed himself on July 23, 1942-on the face of it not an uncommon occurrence in those times. But there is more to the story than the tragic death of one man among so many millions. Czerniakow was for almost three... -
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert
RRP: £18.99£14.01The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerWith a foreword by King Charles III.'A stunningly moving book about the power of hope and love to overcome the very worst of mankind' - Piers MorganWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a... -
50 Jewish Messiahs: The Untold Life Stories of 50 Jewish Messiahs Since Jesus & How They Changed the Jewish, Christian & Muslim Worlds by Jerry Rabow 9789652292889
RRP: £17.99£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652292889Author Jerry RabowFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 432g