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Gage, Nicholas. Greek Fire: The Story of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis. Knopf. 2000. c.408p. photogs. bibliog. index. LC 00-040553. ISBN 0-375-40244-6. $26.95. BIOG The Greek-born Gage, a former reporter [...]

Brysac, Shareen Blair. Resisting Hitler: Mildred Fish-Harnack & the Red Orchestra. Oxford Univ. Oct. 2000. c.512p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-19-5132696. $30. BIOG Brysac, an Emmy Award-winning producer, writer, and [...]

Loy, Rosetta. First Words: A Memoir. Metropolitan: Holt. Aug. 2000. c.174p. permanent paper. tr. by Gregory Conti. ISBN 0-8050-6258-0. $23. AUTOBIOG How did the Italians treat their Jewish population during [...]

Raymond, Alan & Susan Raymond. Children in War. TV Bks., dist. by HarperCollins. Jun. 2000. c.144p. photogs. ISBN 1-57500098-9. pap. $19.95. INT AFFAIRS According to a recent United Nations report, [...]

Witness: Voices from the Holocaust. Free Pr. Apr. 2000. c.288p. ed. by Joshua M. Greene & Shiva Kumar. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-684-86525-4. $26. HIST A companion volume to both [...]

Spoto, Donald. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life. St. Martin's. Mar. 2000. c.336p, photogs. bibliog, index. ISBN 0-31224650-1. $24.95. BIOG Spoto joins the ranks of other Kennedy chroniclers with this [...]

Velmas, Edith. Edith's Story. Soho, dist. by Farrar. Dec. 1999. c.240p. ISBN 1-56947-178-9. $25. AUTOBIOG When Nazi Germany occupied Holland in May 1940, Edith Van Hessen's life as a normal, [...]

Shirer, William L. This Is Berlin: A Narrative History, 1938-40. Overlook, dist. by Penguin/Putnam. Nov. 1999. c.478p. photogs. ISBN 0-87951-719-0. $37.95. HIST This is an absorbing compilation of Shirer's radio [...]

Birger, Zev. No Time for Patience: My Road from Kovno to Jerusalem; A Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor. Newmarket. Sept. 1999. c.160p. ISBN 1-55704-386-8. $18.95. AUTOBIOG Birger is best known [...]

Warwick, Sarah. Upstairs and Downstairs: The Illustrated Guide to the Real World of Downton Abbey. Carlton, dist. by Sterling. Nov. 2012. 128p. illus, index. ISBN 9781847327901. $24.95. HIST Because of [...]

Smith, Douglas. Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy. Farrar. Oct. 2012. c.496p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780374157616. $30. HIST The wide discrepancy between the Russian peasant class [...]

Kynaston, David. Family Britain, 1951-1957. Walker. Jan. 2010. c.800p. photogs, index. ISBN 978-0-8027-1797-9. $45. HIST In the second volume of his series intending to document Britain from 1945 up to [...]

Konrad, George. A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life. Other. 2007. 308p. ed. by Michael Henry Helm. tr. from Hungarian by Jim Tucker. ISBN 978-1-59051-139-8. pap. $15.95. AUTOBIOG [...]

Gati, Charles. Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt. Stanford Univ. Nov. 2006. c.248p. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-8047-5606-6. $24.95. Korda, Michael. Journey to a Revolution: A Personal [...]

Cesarani, David. Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a 'Desk Murderer.' Da Capo. May 2006. c.464p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-306-81476-5. $27.50. HIST Cesarani (history, London Univ.) [...]

Mulisch, Harry. Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness Account. Univ. of Pennsylvania. 2005. c.200p. tr. by Robert Naborn. illus. index. ISBN 0-8122-3861-3. $27.50. HIST Mulisch, a [...]

Deng, Alephonsion & others. They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan. PublicAffairs: Perseus. Jun. 2005. c.336p. ISBN 1-58648-269-9. $25. HIST Sudan [...]

CROWE, DAVID M. Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind the List. Westview: Perseus. 2004. c.760p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-8133-3375-X. $30. [...]

Cramer, Richard Ben. How Israel Lost: The Four Questions. S. & S. Jun. 2004. c.320p. ISBN 0-7432-5028-1. $24. INT AFFAIRS The recent assassination of Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin has made […]

Houghton. Sept. 2003. c.336p. illus, bibliog. index. 0-618-25144-8. $24. HIST In a story that will be unknown to all but the best-read Holocaust historians, this book describes the miracle of [...]

Arcade, dist. by Little, Brown. Jun. 2003. c.440p. photogs. maps. bibliog. index. LC 2002044055. ISBN 1-55970-689-9. $27.95. HIST Drancy. Vel d'Hiv. Petain. These are just a few words that evoke [...]

Yale Univ. Sept. 2002. c.330p, permanent paper, illus, index. ISBN 0-300-09271-7. $29.95. HIST In this succinct and well-documented study, Gay, a renowned writer of Jewish history and winner of the [...]

Four Walls Eight Windows. 2002. 256p. photogs. LC 2001058558. ISBN 1-56858-224-2. $24.95. BIOG In fusing her own experiences and memories with those of her father, Collins explores the effects of [...]

Brunner-Routledge. May 2002. 288p. photogs. ISBN 0-415-93335-8. pap. $18.95. HIST Each Holocaust survivor has a different story to tell. The uniqueness of this volume, however, is that the ten survivors [...]

Thomas, Gordon. The Pope's Jews: The Vatican's Secret Plan To Save Jews from the Nazis. Thomas Dunne. St. Martin's. Oct. 2012. c.336p, bibliog, index. ISBN 9780312604219. $26.99. HIST The Vatican's [...]

Sheffer, Edith. Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain. Oxford Univ. 2011.356p. photogs, maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780199737048. $29.95. HIST Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union [...]

Moorehead, Caroline. A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France. Harper: HarperCollins. Nov. 2011. c.384p. illus, bibliog, index. ISBN 9780061650703. $27.99. HIST The [...]

Preston, Paul. We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War. Skyhorse, dist. by Norton. 2009. c.448p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-1-60239-767-5. $27.95. HIST Preston (contemporary Spanish studies, [...]

Von Boeselager, Phillipp Freiherr & others. Valkyrie: The Story of the Plot To Kill Hitler, by Its Last Member. Knopf. 2009. c.208p. tr. by Steven Rendall from French. photogs. bibliog. […]

Elvin, Jan. The Box from Braunau: In Search of My Father's War. AMACOM: American Management Assn. 2009. c.272p. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-8144-1049-3. $24.95. HIST Not a military history, this work [...]

Merriman, John. The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siecle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror. Houghton. Feb. 2009. c.272p, illus, bibliog, index. ISBN 978-0-618-55598-7. $26. HIST In the [...]

Neugass, James. War Is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War. New Pr., dist by Norton. Nov. 2008. c.336p. ed. by Peter N. Carroll & Peter Glazer. [...]

* Matthews, Owen. Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival. Walker. Sept. 2008. c.320p, illus, bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-8027-1714-6. $26. HIST Intense loyalty, painful separation, incredible hardship, and, [...]

Poisson, Georges. Hitler's Gift to France: The Return of the Remains of Napoleon. Enigma. 2008. c.240p, bibliog, index. ISBN 978-1929631-67-4. pap. $19. HIST Eminent French historian Poisson tells a strange [...]

Campbell, Liza. A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Oct. 2007. c.336p, photogs. ISBN 978-0-312-37477-8. $24.95. AUTOBIOG This book is hard to classify: Is […]

Sander, Gordon F. The Frank Family That Survived. Cornell Univ. May 2007. c.308p. illus. bibliog. ISBN 0-8014-7372-1 [ISBN 9780-8014-7372-2]. pap. $24.95. HIST Though its own story unknowingly parallels that of […]

Lambert, Angela. The Lost Life of Eva Braun. St. Martin's. Jan. 2007. c.512p, photogs. bibliog, index. ISBN 0-312-36654-X [ISBN 978-0-312-36654-4]. $29.95. BIOG While hundreds of books have explored Hitler's life, [...]

ACCORDING TO THE CHRONICLE of Higher Education, almost half of all freshmen surveyed (47.2 percent) plan to work to help pay for school. Additionally, 8.8 percent of freshmen anticipate borrowing [...]

Marton, Kati. The Great Escape: Nine Hungarians Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World. S. & S. Nov. 2006. c.384p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-7432-6115-1 [ISBN 978-0-7432-6115-1]. $27. HIST Out [...]

Brynner, Rock. Empire & Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond. Steerforth, dist. by Random. Apr. 2006. c.348p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 158642-102-6. $29.95. BIOG Brynner can truly [...]

Stargardt, Nicholas. Witnesses of War: Children's Lives Under the Nazis. Knupf. Jan. 2006. c.528p. photogs. maps. index. ISBN 14000-4086-4. $30. HIST The true victims of any war are children. Using [...]

Fabre, Giorgio. Hitler's Contract: How Mussolini Became Hitler's Publisher. Enigma. Dec. 2005. c.250p. tr. from Italian by Robert L. Miller. illus, index. ISBN 1-929631-37-5. $25. HIST Still in print after [...]

Kniffel, Leonard. A Polish Son in the Motherland: An American's Journey Home. Texas A&M Univ. 2005. c.256p. index. ISBN 1-58544-420-0. $35; pap. ISBN 1-58544-441-3. $17.95. AUTOBIOG According to a recent [...]

Williams, Stephanie. Olga's Story: Three Continents, Two World Wars, and Revolution--One Woman's Epic Journey Through the Twentieth Century. Doubleday. 2005. c.352p. photogs. ISBN 0-385-50851-4. $26. HIST Olga Yunter Edney's life [...]

Farrell, Nicholas. Mussolini: A New Life. Phoenix, dist. by Trafalgar Square. 2006. c.560p. ISBN 1-84212-123-5. $19.95. BIOG Sixty years ago, World War II ended in the European theater. A recent [...]

* Latifi, Afschineh. Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran. Regan Bks: HarperCollins. Apr. 2005. c.288p. photogs. ISBN 0-06074533-9. $24.95. AUTOBIOG This engaging work [...]

Moaveni, Azadeh. Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran. PublicAffairs: Perseus. Mar. 2005. c.272p. ISBN 1-58648-193-2. $25. AUTOBIOG For anyone unfamiliar with Iran, [...]

Ioanid, Radu. The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel. Ivan R. Dee. Jan, 2005. c.256p. index. ISBN 1-56663-562-4. $26. HIST This [...]

ROBIN, COREY. Fear: The History of a Political Idea. Oxford Univ. Oct. 2004. c.368p, index. ISBN 0-19-515702-8. $28. POLITICS In this original and fascinating work, Robin (Brooklyn Coll., CUNY) examines […]

KOHL, CHRISTIANE. The Maiden and the Jew: The Story of a Fatal Friendship in Nazi Germany. Steerforth, dist. by Publishers Group West. Sept. 2004. c.208p. illus. ISBN 1-58642-070-4. $23. HIST […]