Search query: historical nonfiction book

Product: Submerged on the Surface: The Not-So-Hidden Jews of Nazi Berlin, 1941–1945
Description: Between 1941 and 1945, thousands of German Jews, in fear for their lives, made the choice to flee their impending deportations and live submerged in the shadows of the Nazi capital. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence and interviews with survivors, this book reconstructs the daily lives of Jews who stayed in Berlin during the war years. Contrary to the received wisdom that “hidden” Jews stayed in attics and cellars and had minimal contact with the outside world, the author reveals a cohort of remarkable individuals who were constantly on the move and actively fought to ensure their own survival.
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Product: The Son and Heir: A Memoir
Description: A prize-winning Dutch journalist’s unsparing memoir of growing up amid the excesses, triumphs, and devastation of post–World War II Europe.

What can a son say upon discovering that his father wore a Nazi uniform? Reporter Alexander Münninghoff was only four when he found this mortifying relic from his father’s recent past in his attic. This shameful memento came to symbolize not only his father’s tragically misguided allegiance but also a shattered marriage and ultimately the unconscionable separation of a mother and son.

In this revelatory memoir, the author confronts his parents’ complex past as he reconstructs the fortunes and disillusions of an entire family upheaved during the changes of twentieth-century Europe. The Münninghoffs were driven by greed, rebellion, and rage. An embattled dynasty, they were torn between the right and the wrong side of history. Their saga haunted Alexander’s life for the next seventy years.

Only in reconciling with them can this man find the courage to move forward as son and heir to the startling legacy of a flawed yet grand tradition.
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Product: A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Description: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London
Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography
“Excellent…This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down.” -- The New York Times Book Review
"A compelling biography of a masterful spy, and a reminder of what can be done with a few brave people -- and a little resistance." - NPR
"A meticiulous history that reads like a thriller." - Ben Macintyre
A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine.
In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her."
The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and--despite her prosthetic leg--helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it.
Virginia established vast spy networks throughout France, called weapons and explosives down from the skies, and became a linchpin for the Resistance. Even as her face covered wanted posters and a bounty was placed on her head, Virginia refused order after order to evacuate. She finally escaped through a death-defying hike over the Pyrenees into Spain, her cover blown. But she plunged back in, adamant that she had more lives to save, and led a victorious guerilla campaign, liberating swathes of France from the Nazis after D-Day.
Based on new and extensive research, Sonia Purnell has for the first time uncovered the full secret life of Virginia Hall--an astounding and inspiring story of heroism, spycraft, resistance, and personal triumph over shocking adversity. A Woman of No Importance is the breathtaking story of how one woman's fierce persistence helped win the war.
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Product: A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
Brand: Pegasus Books
Pegasus Books
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Product: The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home
Brand: Atria Books
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Product: D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction)
Brand: Thorndike Press Large Print
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Product: Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History
Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
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Product: Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Historical Nonfiction Bestseller, True Story Book of Survival)
Brand: Chronicle Books
Chronicle Books CA
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Product: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Brand: Vintage
Color: Grey
Vintage Books
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Product: Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
Brand: Dutton Caliber
Color: Black
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Product: Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Brand: Anchor
Color: Multicolor
Soldiers
WW II
Rescue
Mission
Phillipines
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Product: The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Brand: Crown
Color: Black
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Product: The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))
Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Farrar Straus Giroux
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Product: Alexander Hamilton
Brand: Penguin Books
Color: Tan
Brand New in box. The product ships with all relevant accessories
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Product: The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
Brand: Viking
Color: Silver
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Product: The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Brand: Broadway Books
Color: Multicolor
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