Prisoners of War

In the early 1920s amidst the upheaval of Weimar Germany, a small group of peaceable idealists began to meet, practicing a quiet, communal life focused on self-improvement....

The Third Reich, led by "[A] band of political gangsters", came to power with a deep ideological commitment to war and racism. As the driving force behind the economics, social policy, and propaganda of Germany, racial hatred was the catalyst that plunged Europe into war....

When most of us hear the word "Auschwitz" it immediately invokes black and white, grainy footage of living skeletons, gas chambers and inhuman brutality of a level never seen since....

Rudolf Reder was the only postwar survivor of Belzec, an infamous Nazi death camp where 700,000 Jews were killed in a few short months....

Germany, 1945. As the Russian army marches closer to his hometown, 15-year-old Anton and his best friend Gerhard are pulled from their families and forced to help defend their home in a last desperate stand....

German immigrants Karl and Marta Meyer are loyal Americans, especially after a startling visit to see their family during Hitler’s prewar rise to power. When America enters the war, the FBI wrongly arrests the Meyers as spies. Deportation back to war-torn Germany seems their only hope....

In 1968, Michiko Nishiura Weglyn heard the U.S. attorney general declare on national television that there had never been concentration camps in the United States. Michi was the daughter of Japanese immigrants. In 1942, when she was fifteen, she had been sent to such a camp....

Agent Jeannie Loomis and her partner are called to the scene of a homicide. The victims were tortured before their deaths. Loomis realizes that the suspects were seeking the location of Hitler’s gold train, a train hidden in a mountain range in Austria by a recently deceased SS officer.

This book investigates how political leaders, kings and emperors, long-standing territorial feuds, hypnotism, narcissism, and the supreme desire to rule all set the scene for Hitler to become the leader he believed he was always destined to be....

The astonishing story of William Ash, who after being shot down in his Spitfire over France in early 1942 spent the rest of the war striving to escape from every prisoner of war camp....

The Battle for Snow Mountain is a comic novel which begins with a surreal picture of The Snow Mountains, during the German WWII breakthrough into ...

Cipora Hurwitz (Fela Rozensztajn) was less than six years old when the Second World War erupted. All at once the life of her tranquil family became...

Few events have had a greater impact on human history than the ascension to power of the Nazi Party in Germany in January 1933. This was no coup: the party gained some power via democratic elections, although once it was established, it quickly took absolute control over all aspects of the state....

Thirteen-year-old Jacob Mandel has it all: a loving family and a nice home. But nothing prepared him for what happened when the Nazis took his entire family away to a concentration camp. Miraculously, he escapes and survives by clinging to the one thing that gives him hope....

When Jewish families were torn from their homes, neighborhoods, and livelihoods, what happened to the animals that loved and depended on them?....

The epic true story of Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, an American hero who risked his life in the final days of World War II to save others - now in a thrilling young readers’ edition....

When Germany’s Sixth Army advanced to Stalingrad in 1942, its long-extended flanks were mainly held by its allied armies - the Romanians, Hungarians, and Italians....

The Holocaust is the defining event of the twentieth century and perhaps all of modern history....

A handful of men escape a Russian POW camp and make their way to Poland to alert whatever governments are left that the Russians are planning a strike simply called Operation A....

Alice is a young woman living on her father-in-law's farm on the edge of an Australian country town while her husband is held prisoner in Europe....