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Making the Best of Things: Life During the War Years

The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History

By Tessa Dunlop

Los Intelectuales del Partido Comunista: Itinerario de Hector Agosti (1930-1963)

By Laura Prado Acosta

Broadcasts From the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War

By Phillip Seib

Let Every Nation Know: John F. Kennedy in His Own Words

Anthony Eden

By Robert Rhodes James

The Death of Jean Moulin: Biography of a Ghost

By Patrick Marnham

The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903-1942

By Olivier Philipponnat, Patrick Lienhardt, Euan Cameron

Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-belonger

By Richard Pipes

Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege

By Alan Adelson, Robert Lapides

Jew in America

By Arthur Hertzberg

My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

By Peter Gay

Churchill and the Jews

By Martin Gilbert

Rabbinate in Stormy Days: The Life & Teachings of Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac HaLevi Herzog, The First Chief Rabbi of Israel

By Shaul Mayzlish

All Rivers Run to the Sea: v. 1 (Memoirs)

By Wiesel, Elie

I Shall Live: Surviving the Holocaust, 1939-45

By Henry Orenstein, Claude Lanzmann

The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love and Art in the Ruins of the Reich

By Lara Feigel

Berlin Days, 1946-47

By George Clare

The Jewish Contribution to the 20th Century

By Alan Symons

Soldier of Peace: Life of Yitzhak Rabin

By Dan Kurzman

The Tragedy of Leon Trotsky

By Ronald Segal

Voices from the Holocaust

By Jon E. Lewis

Hitler's Will

By Herman Rothman, Helen Fry

Tangled Loyalties: Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg

By Joshua Rubenstein

Holy Land, Unholy War: Israelis and Palestinians

By Anton La Guardia

Young Stalin

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Infidel: My Life

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winner)

By Norman Mailer

Abba Eban: A Biography

By Asaf Siniver

I Was Hitler's Neighbour

By Edgar Feuchtwanger