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Bitter Freedom: Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor    by Jafa Wallach
Price: $2.99 USD. 53900 words. Language: English. Published by Gihon River Press  on April 13, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Holocaust.

Remarkable first-person story of survival in Nazi occupied Poland. Narrowly escaping the Nazi sweep in Southern Poland, Jafa Wallach and her husband, Natan, a physician, were able to send their four-year-old daughter to safety (they prayed) while they themselves—along with two of Jafa's brothers—managed to dig a shallow hole in the ground beneath the cellar of an heroic Polish mechanic's shop.
Eye of the Eagle: The True Story of an American Hero    by Norman Miller
Price: $4.99 USD. 54990 words. Language: English. Published on March 13, 2012. Nonfiction » History » War.

In World War II, most aviation pilots were armed with many weapons. But in the US Air Force reconnaissance squadron, these men flew ongoing missions over enemy lines, photographing enemy targets before and after they were bombed – facing onslaughts of enemy fighters and armed with -- a camera!
Spirit Over Steel - A Chronology of the Second World War    by John Thompson
Price: $6.99 USD. 177030 words. Language: English. Published on December 17, 2011. Nonfiction » History » War.

The largest, most complex and most destructive war humanity has yet fought, the Second World War escapes easy description. Spirit over Steel is more than just a chronology of the war's main events, it also weaves in hundreds of individual threads into the tapestry of the whole conflict and yet never loses sight of the overall picture.
Ruta's Closet    by Keith Morgan
Price: $12.99 USD. 109160 words. Language: English. Published on December 1, 2011. Nonfiction » History » Holocaust.

Ruta Kron did not share the fate of the more than 200,000 Lithuanian Jews murdered in the Holocaust but lived to tell how courage, love and an indomitable spirit can triumph over evil. The true story of her family's survival will move and inspire readers. Ruta's Closet is written in a fast-paced, fictional style. It's a good read for all and an ideal candidate for Book Club selection.
Whatever Happened to Raoul Wallenberg    by Morris Wolff
Price: $10.99 USD. 139470 words. Language: English. Published by The Educational Publisher  on June 16, 2011. Nonfiction » History » Holocaust.

This never-before told story reveals Wallenberg's detention by the Russians and relates the legal and diplomatic efforts of the author, Morris Wolff, and others to gain (or impede) his release from the Soviet Union. Playing a role in the saga are such participants as Chief Justice John Roberts, President Richard Nixon, President Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger and Leonid Brezhnev.
Born in Sarajevo    by Snjezana Marinkovic
Price: $4.99 USD. 56990 words. Language: English. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on March 28, 2011. Nonfiction » History » War.

In 1991, Slavs would become traitors to their homeland and to each other. They began to rage simultaneously, conquer systematically and clean their country ethnically.
Legacy of Life: A Memoir of the Holocaust    by Israel Joe Sachs
Price: $9.99 USD. 73480 words. Language: English. Published by Henschel Haus Publishing, Inc.  on October 8, 2010. Nonfiction » History » Holocaust.

Israel Joe Sachs recounts his Jewish childhood in Poland, followed by his personal story of survival through nearly six horrifying years of Nazi terror. Most of his family members died in the Holocaust, but he was spared by “The Invisible Hand of God.” Although survivors are scarred forever, “Witnessing a new generation rising from the ashes of the Holocaust uplifted our souls.”
Slow Fire: Jewish Notes from Berlin    by Susan Neiman
Price: $6.99 USD. 96530 words. Language: English. Published by Quid Pro Books on August 22, 2010. Nonfiction » History » Holocaust.

Berlin--East and West, day and night--in the 80s before the Wall fell. Through the eyes of a U.S. philosophy student. And Jewish, which makes for moments awkward, poignant, crass, funny, and always lurking. A city was divided, America the occupier, and the cigarettes not named Salem because it sounds too Jewish. The debut memoirs from the author of Moral Clarity, a N.Y. Times "2008 Notable Book."
Rabbis and Lawyers: The Journey from Torah to Constitution    by Jerold S. Auerbach
Price: $6.99 USD. 115380 words. Language: English. Published by Quid Pro Books on August 17, 2010. Nonfiction » History » Holocaust.

A renowned historian examines the special contributions of rabbis and lawyers to American Jewish acculturation. Based on extensive research in U.S. and Israeli archives, his analysis of how lawyers displaced rabbis as community leaders in the 20th century illuminates a decisive moment in U.S Jewish history, and shows how law became deified, to the point of slighting the Holocaust and Zionism.
Jacob's Courage: A Holocaust Love Story    by Charles Weinblatt
Price: $4.95 USD. 288920 words. Language: English. Published on May 22, 2009. Nonfiction » History » Holocaust.

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Jacob's Courage is a tender coming of age love story of two young adults during the Holocaust. This historical novel explores the dazzling beauty of passionate love and enduring bravery in a lurid world where the innocent are murdered. From despair, to unforgettable moments of chaste beauty, Jacob’s Courage examines a constellation of emotions during a time of incomprehensible brutality.