Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany--

Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
    A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife,

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London, 1939. Ada Vaughan is a young working-class woman with an unusual skill for dressmaking and dreams of opening her own atelier. When she meets Stanislaus von Lieben, a Hungarian aristocrat, he sweeps Ada off her feet and brings her to Paris. But when war breaks out, Stanislaus vanishes, abandoning Ada on an increasingly dangerous continent. Taken prisoner by the Germans, Ada does everything she can to survive. Amid the bleak horror of wartime...

Describes how many young Germans were drawn into the Nazi movement.

Protecting her beloved students from the devastating world outside of their 1934 Berlin classroom, Thekla K?oppen sacrifices some of her personal freedoms to retain her teaching position until activities within Hitler's early regime test her moral courage.

In the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, eyes in America were focused on the war in Europe or distracted by the elevated mood sweeping the country in the final days of the Great Depression. But when planes dropped out of a clear blue sky and bombed the American naval base and aerial targets in Hawaii, all of that changed. December 1941 takes readers into the moment-by-moment ordeal of a nation waking to war. Best-selling author Craig Shirley...

Set amid the growing tyranny of Germany's Third Reich, here is the riveting and emotional tale of Gunther Goldschmidt and Rosemarie Gumpert, two courageous Jewish musicians who struggled to perform under unimaginable circumstances-and found themselves falling in love in a country bent on destroying them. In the spring of 1933, as the full weight of Germany's National Socialism was brought to bear against Germany's Jews, more than 8,000 Jewish musicians,...