WWII & 20th Century History Book Collection

A strong selection of memoirs and narrative histories covering World War I, World War II and the Holocaust. 1. A Crowd Is Not Company — Robert Kee WWII POW memoir: Kee’s years in a German prisoner-of-war camp; survival, morale, and the psychology of captivity. 2. The Hidden Children — Jane Marks True accounts of Jewish children hidden during the Holocaust—false identities, separation, survival, and the aftermath. 3. A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto — Abraham Lewin (ed. Antony Polonsky) A firsthand diary of life inside the Warsaw Ghetto, documenting daily struggle, deportations, and fear, up to early 1943. 4. Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust — Livia E. Bitton Jackson Memoir of a teenage girl’s deportation and survival through Auschwitz and beyond; a coming-of-age under extreme brutality. 5. Eden to Armageddon: World War I in the Middle East — Roger Ford Narrative history of WWI campaigns across Mesopotamia, Gallipoli, the Caucasus, and Palestine, and how the Ottoman collapse reshaped the region. 6. Auschwitz: The Nazis & the ‘Final Solution’ — Laurence Rees A major, award-winning history of Auschwitz and the machinery of genocide, using extensive survivor and perpetrator testimony to explain how the camp operated and how the “Final Solution” was implemented. 7. The Escapers — Eric Williams A collection of dramatic escape stories across several centuries (from historical prison breaks to wartime escapes), selected by WWII’s famous escaper Eric Williams (The Wooden Horse). 8. The Abduction of General Kreipe – Patrick Leigh Fermor The extraordinary true story of the 1944 kidnapping of a German general in Nazi-occupied Crete, led by British SOE officers and Cretan resistance fighters. A remarkable wartime adventure. 9. Eden to Armageddon: World War I in the Middle East – Roger Ford A detailed narrative history of WWI campaigns in Mesopotamia, Gallipoli, the Caucasus and Palestine, and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Eur 8 each or less if you take a fe