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Tamar
A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal
by Mal Peet
When her grandfather dies, a young woman inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. From its contents, the story of a much different man emerges - a resistance fighter stationed in the terrifying state of Nazi-occupied Holland half a century ago. His story is one of passionate love, keen jealousy and deep tragedy - and unraveling it is about to transform this young woman's... (more)
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Death in the City of Light
The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
by David King
DEATH IN THE CITY OF LIGHT is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-occupied Paris. As severed heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, resistance fighters, pimps, prostitutes, spies,... (more)
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises, and of finding connection in the most surprising ways.
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Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart.... (more)
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The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
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Sarah's Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel’ d’Hiv’s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past.... (more)
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The Zookeeper's Wife
A War Story
by Diane Ackerman
A true story—as powerful as Schindler's List —in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark... (more)
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The Notebook
by Agota Kristof
A nightmare fable of Central Europe during World War II. The notebook in question is the composition of two small twin boys evacuated to their greedy, illiterate, foul-tempered grandmother. All around them the strong - including the occupying army rounding up their human herd - prey on the weak.
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City of Thieves
by David Benioff
As wise and funny as it is thrilling and original — the story of two young men on an impossible adventure.A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won’t talk about it, but his grandfather reluctantly consents. The result is the captivating odyssey of two young men trying to survive against desperate... (more)
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A Thread of Grace
by Mary Doria Russell
Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II - it is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe at last, now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon... (more)
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK.Anne. Foreword by Storm Jameson. Frank
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THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK.
by Anne. Foreword by Storm Jameson. Frank
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The Eighth Child
by Michael Hillier
Why was Alan Brading's French wife gunned down in a London street in front of him? Why don't the police seem interested even though he sees the murderer later at her funeral? What has this to do with events that took place in France during the last war? Is the real problem connected with Alan himself? He has to fight the authorities, his wife's family, the people in her home town and himself before he finds out... (more)
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Comedy in a Minor Key
by Hans Keilson
A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupationand, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim and Marie, a Dutch couple who first hide a Jew they know as Nico, then must dispose of his body when he dies of pneumonia. This novella, first published in 1947 and now translated into English for the first time, shows Hans Keilson at his best:... (more)
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The Little Coat: The Bob and Sue Elliot Story
by Alan J. Buick
Sussie Cretier was only 10 when she met Bob Elliott, a Canadian soldier assigned to help protect her region of the Netherlands from the invading German army. Sussie's family had endured years of Nazi occupation before escaping to a safe area where Canadian soldiers held firm with their guns and tanks. Brave little Sussie had once spoken out against the commanding German officer to save her father's life. Now... (more)