Recommended Reading

Intriguing history of the only U.S. government agency ever founded with the express purpose “to save the lives of civilians being murdered by a wartime enemy.”

This final book in Evans' trilogy on the Third Reich examines the Nazi regime during 1939-1945. He looks at German military campaigns and life on the home front in relation to policies and practices against Jews and others.

Second-guessing life-or-death decisions with the hindsight of history is only natural, asserts British journalist Daniel Finkelstein in his unflinching and gripping family history “Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin and the Miraculous Survival of My Family.” But even the best guesses available to Jews, like his grandparents, seeking to escape Nazi Germany and Poland in the 1930s could not have forecast the devastatingly swift onslaught of broken promises and Axis military strikes that would so quickly result in the occupation of Allied countries, which were only a short time before considered “safe” from Hitler’s antisemitic persecution.