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Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller 9781566632713
RRP: €15.46€11.14Filip 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... -
Cilka's Journey: The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris 9781838770433
RRP: €8.32€7.16Her beauty saved her life - and condemned her.In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation... -
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain by Paul Preston
RRP: €22.60€15.12Selected as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain. The culmination of more than a decade of research, 'The Spanish Holocaust' seeks to... -
Deserter: A Hidden History of the Second World War by Charles Glass
RRP: €15.46€11.54A poet, a gangster and an agent of the Resistance; 'Deserter' details three astonishing lives shaped by the decision to flee during WWII. During the Second World War, the British lost 100,000 troops to desertion, and the Americans 50,000... -
The Lost: A search for six of six million by Daniel Mendelsohn 9780007550128
RRP: €20.22€14.61A 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... -
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: €11.89€8.46WINNER 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,... -
Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe by Simone Arnold Liebster
RRP: €10.65€7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937188009Author Simone Arnold LiebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint George Milakovich & Assoc IncPublisher George Milakovich & Assoc... -
The Road: Short Fiction and Essays by Vasily Grossman
RRP: €11.89€8.09By the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring Kenneth Branagh. Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century. The short fiction collected here - satire, comedy, tragedy and... -
The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
RRP: €11.89€8.09The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film.'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man throughout... -
If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
RRP: €15.46€10.71Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a... -
A Bridge Too Far: The true story of the Battle of Arnhem by Cornelius Ryan
RRP: €13.08€8.81Arnhem 1944: the airborne strike for the bridges over the Rhine.The true story of the greatest battle of World War II and the basis of the 1977 film of the same name, directed by Richard Attenborough.The Battle of Arnhem, one of the most dramatic battles... -
The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy by Simon Levis Sullam 9780691209203
RRP: €17.84€14.13A 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 Sisters of Auschwitz: The true story of two Jewish sisters' resistance in the heart of Nazi territory by Roxane van Iperen
RRP: €11.89€4.89Perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and The Librarian of Auschwitz - this is the international bestselling and life-affirming true story of female bravery and surviving the horrors of Auschwitz. NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller... -
Maus: a Survivor's Tale: No 1 by Art Spiegelman
RRP: €41.65€25.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679406419Author Art SpiegelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Pantheon Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 240mm... -
The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
RRP: €13.08€8.81THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'Hypnotic, shocking and unputdownable' JOHN LE CARRE'Remarkable' THE SUNDAY TIMES'Breathtaking, gripping, shattering' ELIF SHAFAK'A taut and finely crafted factual thriller'... -
Let It Go: My Extraordinary Story - From Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist by Dame Stephanie Shirley
RRP: €13.08€9.25A moving memoir from a woman who made a fortune in a man's world and then gave it all away...soon to be turned into a filmIn 1962, Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley created a software company when the concept of software barely existed. Freelance Programmers... -
Three Sisters: The conclusion to the Tattooist of Auschwitz trilogy by Heather Morris
RRP: €20.22€14.14'Gripping, heartbreaking and uplifting.' Christy Lefteri, author of the million-copy bestseller The Beekeeper of AleppoTHEIR STORY WILL BREAK YOUR HEARTTHEIR JOURNEY WILL FILL YOU WITH HOPEYOU WILL NEVER FORGET THEIR NAMESWhen they are little girls,... -
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story by Patricia Posner
RRP: €17.84€15.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909979413Author Patricia PosnerFormat PaperbackImprint Crux PublishingPublisher Crux PublishingWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 16mm -
Parallel Lines by Peter Lantos
RRP: €11.89€8.09"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... -
Auschwitz: A History by Sybille Steinbacher
RRP: €13.08€9.25At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille... -
Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust by Andrew I. Port
RRP: €35.64€28.07Germans remember the Nazi past so that it may never happen again. But how has the abstract vow to remember translated into concrete action to prevent new genocides abroad?As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a... -
The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution by Mark Roseman
RRP: €14.27€10.03At a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in human history convened. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich and organised and minuted by Adolf Eichmann, it brought together... -
Yes To Life In Spite of Everything by Viktor E Frankl 9781846046360
RRP: €17.84€13.03'Viktor Frankl gives us the gift of looking at everything in life as an opportunity' Edith Eger, bestselling author of The Choice'Offers a path to finding hope even in these dark times' The New York Times A rediscovered masterpiece by the 16 million... -
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
RRP: €11.89€7.90THE 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... -
Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp by Helga Weiss 9780241959503
RRP: €13.08€9.25'The most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank' Daily TelegraphFirst they led us to the baths, where they took from us everything we still had. Quite literally there wasn't even a hair left. I didn't even recognize my own mother till I... -
The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom by Adam Czerniakow 9781566632300
RRP: €20.22€18.99Adam 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: €22.60€16.67The 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... -
Last Stop Auschwitz: My story of survival from within the camp by Eddy de Wind
RRP: €11.89€8.46THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The ultimate Holocaust testimony.' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's JourneyAfterword by JOHN BOYNE, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas_______________Eddy de Wind, a... -
The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times by Nina Siegal
RRP: €29.75€19.55Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before. ... -
Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld 9780753560815
RRP: €20.22€15.42'Haunting and powerfully resonant... this is a story not just of remarkable individuals, but also a tribute to the wider indomitability of the human spirit at the darkest moment in European history' - Sinclair McKay, bestselling author of Berlin and... -
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington
RRP: €13.08€8.81*** The New York Times Bestseller ***'Lucy Adlington tells of the horrors of the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps from a fascinating and original angle. She introduces us to a little known aspect of the period, highlighting the role of... -
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
RRP: €15.46€10.82'You have to read it' Volodymyr Zelensky'Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account' Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler: Hubris and Hitler: Nemesis'In this... -
My Dear Ones: One Family and the Holocaust - A Story of Enduring Hope and Love by Jonathan Wittenberg
RRP: €10.70€7.16'Moving - at times almost unbearably so - and fascinating' Antonia Fraser A family's story of human tenacity, faith and a race for survival in the face of unspeakable horror and cruelty perpetrated by the Nazi regime against the... -
Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century by Moishe Postone
RRP: €38.08€37.02This collection features essays that consider the role of anti-semitism in the recounting of the Holocaust; the place of the catastrophe in the narrative of twentieth century history;the questions of agency and victimhood that the Holocaust inspires.Book... -
The Nazis: A Warning From History by Laurence Rees
RRP: €17.84€8.46Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.During a 16-year period, acclaimed... -
Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949 by David Cesarani
RRP: €23.80€17.33Final Solution is an intelligent and thought-provoking short history of the Holocaust, by historian David Cesarani.Not only does David Cesarani draw together and engage with the latest scholarly research, making extensive use of previously untapped... -
A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: €13.08€9.25A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance - a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holocaust together.On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were... -
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler: The Astonishing True Story of the American Financiers Who Bankrolled the Nazis by Antony Cyril Sutton 9781905570270
RRP: €15.46€10.82'The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations can only be described as phenomenal. It was certainly crucial to German military capabilities...Not only was an influential sector of American business aware of the nature of... -
The Girl with the Red Hair: The powerful novel based on the astonishing true story of one woman’s fight in WWII by Buzzy Jackson
RRP: €22.60€16.20The greatest hero of the Second World War . . . is a girl you've never heard ofThe blazing debut novel based on the unsung true story of Hannie Schaft, a young-woman-turned-Dutch-Resistance-fighter in Nazi-occupied Netherlands'Inspiring, empowering, and... -
Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last by Rabbi Israel Meir Lau
RRP: €17.84€12.14A moving account of survival and faith from Israel Meir Lau, a Holocaust survivor and former Chief Rabbi of Israel, with forewords by former President of Israel Shimon Peres and the bestselling author of Night, Elie Wiesel-both Nobel Peace Prize...