As a young man in Germany, AW's grandfather published Kafka and several other depraved authors whose work the Nazis were keen to burn. He fled in 1933, eventually settling in New York where ... read more
The story of one of the most daring raids of WW2, after which 5 VCs were awarded. GW argues that the raid was misconceived and that its object was only attained by the astonishing bravery of... read more
A selection of STW's huge output of short stories. These were written between 1940 and 1946 and give matchless glimpses of the market towns and villages of the South of England and the lives... read more
SOE sent more than 400 agents into France of whom 39 were women. Vigurs traces them all here, not just the well known ones, and sets them in their context.
The remarkable story of the author's Jewish grandmother, whose bestselling Viennese cookbook was expropriated by the Nazis after the Anschluss in 1938 and republished for decades under a fal... read more
Ludwig Pollak was the art dealer-scholar who found the missing arm of Laocoön, in the famous classical sculpture. In this mysterious, cerebral novella set in Rome in 1943, Pollak is exhorte... read more
Morally complex, stunningly written and brimming with imagination and empathy, this story is set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1944. Censored by the Communists after the war, the novel was firs... read more
Stone's troubling account shows how the genocide of Jews took place in many parts of Europe, the result of enthusiastic collaboration (at least in some sections of government or citizens) wi... read more
Britain is at war and the government has a secret weapon: child spies. Enter Robin Stevens' second generation of unladylike sleuths, now on the trail of an errant corpse. Ages 8-12.
First translation of his novel set in Naples in the shadow of WW2, about a railway clerk, thwarted in his artistic ambitions, and his long-suffering family. Published in Italian 20 years ago... read more