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Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklos Nyiszli
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer... -
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73From the author of Masters and Commanders, Andrew Roberts' The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this epic conflict. The... -
The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter - The Sunday Times Bestseller by Josef Lewkowicz 9781529177497
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'A riveting, compelling, mesmerizing journey. Josef Lewkowicz is a hero in every sense of the word. The Survivor both terrifies us and inspires us. It's a must read... -
Fateless Imre Kertesz 9781784872151
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'While the average reader cannot pretend truly to understand the reality of those who suffered in concentration camps, Kertesz draws us one step closer' ObserverGyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian... -
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Dan Stone 9780241508749
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi genocide . . . . surprising . . . provocative . . . fizzes with ideas. Even if you think you know the subject, you'll probably find something... -
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The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts 9780141029283 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.41From the author of Masters and Commanders, Andrew Roberts' The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this epic conflict. The... -
The Forgers: The True Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation Roger Moorhouse 9781529923667
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that saved thousands of Jewish lives in World War Two... -
Here I Am: Contemporary Jewish Stories from Around the World by Elaine Marcus Starkman 9780827606548
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.63A premier collection of contemporary Jewish short stories from around the world, "Here I Am" spans six continents and twenty-four countries. Contributors include Cynthia Ozick, Elie Wiesel, Primo... -
The Flavors of Modernity: Food and the Novel by Gian-Paolo Biasin 9780691603476
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02From Rabelais's celebration of wine to Proust's madeleine and Virginia Woolf's boeuf en daube in To the Lighthouse, food has figured prominently in world literature. But perhaps nowhere has it played... -
Memories of Mass Repression: Narrating Life Stories in the Aftermath of Atrocity by Nanci D. Adler
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Memories of Mass Repression presents the results of researchers working with the voices of witnesses. Its stories include the witnesses, victims, and survivors; it also reflects the subjective... -
The Event of Postcolonial Shame by Timothy Bewes 9780691141664
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the... -
Beyond Solidarity: Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World Giles Gunn 9780226310640
Booksplease Price: £30.43In this text Giles Gunn asks how human solidarity can be reconceived when its expressions have become increasingly exceptionalist and outmoded, and when the pressures of globalization divide as much... -
A World Apart: Imprisonment in a Soviet Labor Camp During World War II by Gustaw Herling 9780140251845
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.12A searing, personal literary account of life in a Soviet prison campIn 1940, Gustaw Herling was arrested after he joined an underground Polish army that fell into Russian hands. He was sent to a... -
Beyond Solidarity: Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World by Giles Gunn
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £78.00In this text Giles Gunn asks how human solidarity can be reconceived when its expressions have become increasingly exceptionalist and outmoded, and when the pressures of globalization divide as much... -
Necropolis by Boris Pahor
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Boris 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... -
From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and After by Ruth Leys 9780691143323
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Why has shame recently displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West? After the Holocaust, survivors often reported feeling guilty for living when so many others had died, and in the... -
My Dear Ones: One Family and the Holocaust - A Story of Enduring Hope and Love by Jonathan Wittenberg
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99'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... -
Dostoevsky's Democracy by Nancy Ruttenburg 9780691146645
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Dostoevsky's Democracy offers a major reinterpretation of the life and work of the great Russian writer by closely reexamining the crucial transitional period between the early works of the 1840s and... -
The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings by Neil Levi 9780813533537
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.04The first anthology to address the relationship between the events of the Nazi genocide and the intellectual concerns of contemporary literary and cultural theory in one substantial and indispensable... -
The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy by Simon Levis Sullam
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57A gripping revisionist history that shows how ordinary Italians played a central role in the genocide of Italian Jews during the Second World WarIn this gripping revisionist history of Italy's role... -
(God) After Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought by Zachary Braiterman 9780691059419
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £78.51The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author... -
The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy by Simon Levis Sullam 9780691209203
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.05A 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... -
Judging 'Privileged' Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone' Adam Brown 9781782389163
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £14.22The Nazis' persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to... -
Judging 'Privileged' Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone' Adam Brown 9780857459916
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.16The Nazis' persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to... -
Death Dealer: The Memoirs Of The SS Kommandant At Auschwitz by Rudolph Hoss 9780306806988
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.41SS Kommandant Rudolph Hoess (1900-1947) was history's greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in... -
The Norman Geras Reader: 'What's There is There' by Ben Cohen 9781526103857
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20This is the first book to gather the key writings of the distinguished political theorist Norman Geras into a single volume, providing a comprehensive overview of the thinking of one of the most... -
Life Must Go on: The Remarkable Story of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghetto, and the Tragic Fate of Lithuania's Jews Bea Lurie 9781639369294
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50The remarkable story of Sol Lurie, a child survivor of six concentration camps during the Holocaust, who continues to be a beacon of hope.After a bucolic childhood in Kovno, Lithuania, Sol was just... -
Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter by Carolin Emcke 9780691129037
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80"Nobody I ever met on my assignments ...asked me for direct, practical help...But over and over again people have asked me: 'Will you write this down?' "--Echoes of Violence Echoes of Violence is an... -
My First Memory: Epiphanies, Watersheds and Origin Stories by Ben Holden 9781471167461
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38WHAT IS YOUR FIRST MEMORY? Or, rather, what do you imagine to be your earliest memory? Perhaps, alternatively, there was a moment during childhood when the world's axis shifted? A transformative... -
The Kindness of Women: A Novel by J. G. Ballard 9781631493348
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.08Published in 1991, this semi-autobiographical novel is a daring masterpiece from "one of the most important and intelligent voices in contemporary fiction" (Susan Sontag). "Rueful the way Primo... -
The Seven Measures of the World Piero Martin 9780300280111
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world "Entertaining popular science and a literate tale of why things are as they are... -
Loving Psychoanalysis: Looking at Culture with Freud and Lacan by Ruth Golan 9781855753792
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Psychoanalysis was neither a product of philosophy nor of academic study. Rather, psychoanalysis was born in the clinic. Freud took his lead from hysterical women; the accounts of their pain,... -
Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander by Maria Anna Mariani 9780192868855
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.92Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander explores the overlooked position of the bystander in the Nuclear Age by focusing on the Italian situation as a paradigmatic case... -
War Poems by John Hollander 9781857157406
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Poets of all times, places and sensibilities have been moved to write about war. They have commemorated the Battles of Thermopylae, Agincourt and Shilph, and London in an air raid. They have... -
Reading Chaucer After Auschwitz: Sovereign Power and Bare Life by William T. McClellan 9781137565440
Booksplease Price: £51.77Drawing on the work of Holocaust writer Primo Levi and political philosopher Giorgio Agamben McClellan introduces a critical turn in our reading of Chaucer. He argues that the unprecedented event of... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel by Peter Bondanella 9780521660181
Booksplease Price: £82.70The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era... -
Homer, Humanism, Holocaust: Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II by Adam J. Goldwyn 9783031114724
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £36.44This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer's epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a parallel... -
Bliss by Katherine Mansfield
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith... -
Witnessness: Beckett, Dante, Levi and the Foundations of Responsibility by Robert Harvey 9781441124241
Booksplease Price: £37.81This is a work in comparative literature and philosophy that offers a new and important way of thinking the ethical capacity of human subjectivity. "Witnessness" posits a universal ethics based... -
Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War by Dora L. Costa 9780691137049
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.81When are people willing to sacrifice for the common good? What are the benefits of friendship? How do communities deal with betrayal? And what are the costs and benefits of being in a diverse...