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Theory and Practice of Hell, the by Eugen Kogon 9780374529925
RRP: $42.00$24.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529925Author Eugen KogonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
A Good Place to Hide: How One Community Saved Thousands of Lives from the Nazis In WWII by Peter Grose
RRP: $27.28$18.06During the occupation of France in WWII the villages around Le Chambon-sur-Lignon pulled off an astonishing and largely unknown feat. Risking everything, they underwent a long-running battle of nerves and daring to hide 5,000 men, women and children,... -
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler by Laurence Rees
RRP: $27.28$19.09Fuelled by hate. Unable to form normal human relationships. Unwilling to debate political issues.In many ways Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader, yet he inspired millions, leading Germany into the cataclysmic events of the Second World War.But how... -
Renia's Diary: A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Renia Spiegel
RRP: $35.68$25.79Introduction by Deborah E. Lipstadt, author of DenialJuly 15, 1942, WednesdayRemember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come. Since 8 o'clock today we have been shut away in the ghetto. I live here now. The world is separated from... -
SS Einsatzgruppen: Nazi Death Squads, 1939-1945 by Gerry Van Tonder 9781526729095
RRP: $27.28$19.09In June 1941, Adolf Hitler, whose loathing of Slavs and Jewish Bolsheviks knew no bounds, launched Operation Barbarossa, throwing 4 million troops, supported by tanks, artillery and aircraft into the Soviet Union. Operational groups of the German... -
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger 9781509867448
RRP: $63.00$44.84A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a... -
Eichmann and the Holocaust by Hannah Arendt
RRP: $16.78$12.16Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
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: $39.88$28.58The 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... -
Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust by William I. Brustein 9780521774789
RRP: $65.08$51.26How did the levels of anti-Semitism in the 1930s compare to those of earlier decades? Did anti-Semitism vary in content and intensity across societies? In other words, were Germans more anti-Semitic than their European neighbors, and, if so, why? How... -
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain by Paul Preston 9780008522117
RRP: $63.00$41.45A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify... -
Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing by Alex J. Kay
RRP: $52.50$44.77The first comparative, comprehensive history of Nazi mass killing-showing how genocidal policies were crucial to the regime's strategy to win the war Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians and other noncombatants in deliberate policies... -
Escape From the Ghetto: The Breathtaking Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the Nazis John Carr 9781529381573
RRP: $42.00$28.88'Trust me, this is a great true story' - Ken Follett 'It deserves to be ranked among the great survival stories of the Second World War' - The Jewish Chronicle ~~~~~ The captivating true story of one boy's flight across Europe to escape the Nazis. A tale... -
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck 9780299165048
RRP: $39.80$30.89That Gad Beck, a Jew in the Berlin of Nazi Germany, lived through the Holocaust at all is surprising. The fact that he lived it as a homosexual Jew who spent the entire war funnelling food, money and clothing to hidden Jews and helping smuggle others out... -
The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto - 75th Anniversary Edition by Mary Berg
RRP: $23.08$16.32Mary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to keep a diary throughout. This astonishing, vivid portrayal of life inside the Warsaw Ghetto ranks with the most significant... -
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How one Jewish woman survived the holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer
RRP: $25.18$16.80Edith Hahn was a young law student in Vienna when Hitler absorbed Austria in 1938. Madly in love with a young man called Pepi who was half-Jewish, she was separated from him and sent to a forced labour camp. So began the extraordinary chain of events... -
Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization by Michael Rothberg
RRP: $50.38$44.60Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the... -
The Broken House: Growing up under Hitler by Horst Kruger 9781847926340
RRP: $31.48$20.01The Broken House is a rediscovered coming-of-age story that provides an unforgettable portrait of life under the Nazis. In 1965, journalist Horst Kruger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the... -
Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate by Jeffrey C. Alexander 9780195326222
RRP: $77.68$64.47Remembering the Holocaust explains why the Holocaust has come to be considered the central event of the 20th century, and what this means. Presenting Jeffrey Alexander's controversial essay that, in the words of Geoffrey Hartman, has already become a... -
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
RRP: $27.28$19.09A shocking and timely reminder of the role Nazi women played in the Holocaust, not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but on the Eastern Front. History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau and a loyal... -
If This Is Man And The Truce by Primo Levi
RRP: $37.78$27.20Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRUCE covers his long journey to Italy at the end of the war... -
The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War by Halik Kochanski
RRP: $39.88$28.58In Halik Kochanski's extraordinary book, the untold story of Poland and the Poles in the Second World War is finally heardBy almost every measure the fate of the inhabitants of Poland was the most terrible of any group in the Second World War. Following... -
Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld 9780753560815
RRP: $35.68$28.01'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... -
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Q. Whitman 9780691183060
RRP: $27.28$19.03How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi GermanyNazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In... -
Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors by Dith Pran 9780300078732
RRP: $47.25$45.53"Childhood testimonies by survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia. . . . Compelling."-Kirkus Reviews"Underscores with great poignancy the horror of the Pol Pot period."-Nancy J. Smith-Hefner, Journal of Asian StudiesThis extraordinary book... -
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger
RRP: $52.50$34.50A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain ... -
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman
RRP: $23.08$16.32'An ambitious and engrossing investigation of the moral legacies which stubbornly refuse to pass' Brendan Simms As the western world struggles with its legacies of racism and colonialism, what can we learn from the past in order to move forward?Susan... -
The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
RRP: $31.48$20.06Sixty years after the defeat of the Third Reich, the complexities of Nazi ideology are still being unravelled. This enormously influential book has provided the first serious account of these ideological origins. The book demonstrates the way in which... -
A Brief History of The Third Reich: The Rise and Fall of the Nazis Martyn Whittock 9781849012997
RRP: $23.08$15.54Beginning in the broken aftermath of the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles that made German recovery almost impossible, Whittock tells not just the account of the men who rose to the fore in the dangerous days of the Weimar republic, circling... -
The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry by Lidia Maksymowicz
RRP: $39.88$39.77The Number One International Bestseller.The heartbreaking, inspiring true story of a girl sent to Auschwitz who survived the evil Dr Josef Mengele's pseudo-medical experiments. With a foreword by His Holiness Pope Francis.Lidia Maksymowicz was just three... -
Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald by Carole Angier
RRP: $35.68$25.79A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable portrait' Guardian W. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of... -
The Photographer at Sixteen: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020 by George Szirtes
RRP: $23.08$15.54A poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey.**A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**"A truly remarkable book . . . fiercely compelling"... -
Nazi Germany And The Jews: The Years Of Persecution: 1933-1939 by Saul Friedlander
RRP: $31.48$23.00A magisterial history of the Jews in Nazi Germany and the regime's policies towards them in the years prior to World War II and the Holocaust. Written by arguably the world's leading scholar on the subject.Himself a survivor, Friedlander has been a... -
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain by Paul Preston 9780008522155
RRP: $27.28$17.81A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the... -
The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation Ian Kershaw 9781474240956
RRP: $54.58$50.74'Unquestionably the most authoritative, balanced, readable, and meticulously documented introduction to the Third Reich.' - International History Review Sir Ian Kershaw is regarded by many as the world's leading authority on Hitler and the Third... -
Necropolis by Boris Pahor
RRP: $20.98$14.07Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Bergen-Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau and Natzweiler-Struthof. Twenty years later, as he visited the preserved remains of a camp, his experiences came back... -
Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto by Tilar J Mazzeo 9781476778518
RRP: $41.98$26.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476778518Author Tilar J MazzeoFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy by Simon Levis Sullam 9780691209203
RRP: $31.48$25.52A 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... -
Homelands: The History of a Friendship by Chitra Ramaswamy 9781838852665
RRP: $35.68$24.32THE SALTIRE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN'S BEST MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY OF 2022This book is about two unlikely friends. One born in 1970s Britain to Indian immigrant parents, the other arrived from Nazi Germany in 1939, fleeing persecution.This... -
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes by Michael Frank
RRP: $39.88$28.58SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2024 A WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER 'Beautiful, sober and affecting - a testament to remembrance and friendship' - DALIA SOFER 'A momentous historic... -
The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano
RRP: $20.98$14.93WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, 2014Haunted by the fate of Dora Bruder - a fifteen-year-old girl listed as missing in an old December 1941 issue of Paris Soir - Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano sets out to find all he can about her...