Two sisters are brutally separated by war in tragic circumstances. Ania is imprisoned and forced to endure the atrocities of a Nazi concentration camp. Danuta’s search for her sister leads her into the dangers of the Polish Underground. Each will do what they must to survive long enough to find each other. Their dream of being reunited is crushed in shocking circumstances.In an astonishing twist of fate, the opportunity for revenge presents itself 60 years later. But faced with the ultimate decision what will be the outcome ... seek justice or revenge? Spanning decades, Hitler’s Brothel is a tragic and gripping tale of deception, courage and survival.

1938, as the world spirals towards war, Klara Koch is employed as Hitler's personal cook. While Germany reveres the image of the Fuhrer, Klara and the household staff are privy to the real Hitler – his secrets, his ailments and his addictions. As Klara observes those circling the Fuhrer, she realises that not all of them are his admirers. Hitler is right to be paranoid. This thoroughly researched and compelling story takes readers right up close and personal with Hitler as he spirals increasingly out of control in pursuit of his drug-fueled quest for world domination. This novel – the second volume in Steve Matthews’ gripping Nazi trilogy – takes you on a journey through World War II in Nazi Germany as seen through Klara’s eyes. It is a uniquely clever re-imagining of Hitler, his inner circle, and the absurdities and contradictions of his daily life.

Though not a member of the National Socialist Party, Leni Riefenstahl was the filmmaker darling of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. First a successful dancer and actress in Germany, she became more notorious when she produced and directed Victory of Faith and Triumph of the Will, the chilling documentaries about Nazi Party Congresses at Nuremberg. Glenn Morris was an All-American farm boy from tiny Simla, Colorado, as well as a former college football star and student body president at the school now known as Colorado State University. At the 1936 Olympics, he won the decathlon, earning him the label “the world’s greatest athlete.” Among the American heroes at the Berlin Games, he was considered second only to Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals. Riefenstahl and Morris: An unlikely couple? Perhaps, but in her 1987 memoirs, the German filmmaker belatedly confirmed she had an affair with the American athlete during the filming of Olympia, Riefenstahl’s documentary about the Berlin Games. In fact, she portrayed it as much more than a dalliance, saying that she had dreamed of marrying Morris and that he broke her heart. Morris, who went on to Hollywood, the National Football League, and military service, spoke sparingly of the relationship, but mused late in life that he “should have stayed in Germany with Leni.” In Olympic Affair, author Terry Frei turns to historical fiction in a novel researched in much the same fashion as his widely praised works of nonfiction, including Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming and Third Down and a War to Go. Using deduction, imagination and narrative skill to augment documented fact (as well as debunk myths parroted for many years), Frei tells the story of their ill-fated affair . . . and beyond. Read the first chapter of Olympic Affair here.

For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize that gay people, like Jews and others deemed “undesirable,” suffered enormously at the hands of the Nazi regime. Of the few who survived the concentration camps, even fewer ever came forward to tell their stories. This heart wrenchingly vivid account of one man's arrest and imprisonment by the Nazis for the crime of homosexuality, now with a new preface by Sarah Schulman, remains an essential contribution to gay history and our understanding of historical fascism, as well as a remarkable and complex story of survival and identity.

In the momentous days from April 28 to May 2, 1945, the world witnessed the death of two Fascist dictators and the fall of Berlin. Mussolini's capture and execution by Italian partisans, the suicide of Adolf Hitler, and the fall of the German capital signaled the end of the four-year war in the European Theater. In Five Days That Shocked the World, Nicholas Best thrills readers with the first-person accounts of those who lived through this dramatic time. In this valuable work of history, the author's special achievement is weaving together the reports of famous and soon-to-be-famous individuals who experienced the war up close. We follow a young Walter Cronkite as he parachutes into Holland with a Canadian troop; photographer Lee Miller capturing the evidence of Nazi atrocities; the future Pope Benedict returning home and hoping not to get caught and shot after deserting his infantry unit; Audrey Hepburn no longer having to fear conscription into a Wehrmacht brothel; and even an SS doctor's descriptions of a decadent sex orgy in Hitler's bunker. In skillfully synthesizing these personal narratives, Best creates a compelling chronicle of the five earth-shaking days when Fascism lost it death grip on Europe. With this vivid and fast-paced narrative, the author reaffirms his reputation as an expert on the final days of great wars.

A masterly and moving account of the most horrific hidden atrocity of World War II: Ravensbrück, the only Nazi concentration camp built for women On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 867 women—housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes—was marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded in through giant gates. Whipping and kicking them were scores of German women guards. Their destination was Ravensbrück, a concentration camp designed specifically for women by Heinrich Himmler, prime architect of the Holocaust. By the end of the war 130,000 women from more than twenty different European countries had been imprisoned there; among the prominent names were Geneviève de Gaulle, General de Gaulle’s niece, and Gemma La Guardia Gluck, sister of the wartime mayor of New York. Only a small number of these women were Jewish; Ravensbrück was largely a place for the Nazis to eliminate other inferior beings—social outcasts, Gypsies, political enemies, foreign resisters, the sick, the disabled, and the “mad.” Over six years the prisoners endured beatings, torture, slave labor, starvation, and random execution. In the final months of the war, Ravensbrück became an extermination camp. Estimates of the final death toll by April 1945 have ranged from 30,000 to 90,000. For decades the story of Ravensbrück was hidden behind the Iron Curtain, and today it is still little known. Using testimony unearthed since the end of the Cold War and interviews with survivors who have never talked before, Sarah Helm has ventured into the heart of the camp, demonstrating for the reader in riveting detail how easily and quickly the unthinkable horror evolved. Far more than a catalog of atrocities, however, Ravensbrück is also a compelling account of what one survivor called “the heroism, superhuman tenacity, and exceptional willpower to survive.” For every prisoner whose strength failed, another found the will to resist through acts of self-sacrifice and friendship, as well as sabotage, protest, and escape. While the core of this book is told from inside the camp, the story also sheds new light on the evolution of the wider genocide, the impotence of the world to respond, and Himmler’s final attempt to seek a separate peace with the Allies using the women of Ravensbrück as a bargaining chip. Chilling, inspiring, and deeply unsettling, Ravensbrück is a groundbreaking work of historical investigation. With rare clarity, it reminds us of the capacity of humankind both for bestial cruelty and for courage against all odds.

The Peculiar Sex Life of Adolf HitlerChapter 1: Incest, violence, criminality & insanityIncestuous marriage; savage beatings; impotent as a heterosexual; guilty of indecent assault; sending his feces to the school principal; craving for a strong male; castration anxiety; the rest of Hitler's family; insane cousin gassed to death; Jewish relativesChapter 2: Mother FixationMother's darling; Oedipus complex; seeing his parents having sex; lying to his mother; racked with guilt; love and tenderness; poem to his motherChapter 3: August KubizekNocturnal excursions; first girl crush; mentally unbalanced; jealousy and arguments; young Hitler's sexuality; incest incarnate; Brokeback Mountain?Chapter 4: Reinhold HanischDream factory; lover's quarrel; pederasty and theft; Jewish advisers; Hitler's unknown male companion in MunichChapter 5: Ernst SchmidtWW1; glorious meaning of a male community; sexual bullying (or a small penis); guilty of pederastic practices with an officer; in Munich with Schmidt; smear campaignChapter 6: Landsberg Love TriangleBisexual bodyguards; casual gay lovers; only one testicle; my splendid Maurice; sex with Rudolf Hess; Mein Kampf; increasing aspirationsChapter 7: "Brotherhood of Poofs"Sexual perversion records destroyed; openly gay; getting rid of Queen Ernst Roehm; whip in hand, Night of the Long Knives; new anti-gay laws; gay Nazis married offChapter 8: Julius SchreckRubber bludgeons; Schreck as doppelganger; car lovers; trysts at Hotel Bube; Hitler's fantasies come true; primitive and brutal; state funeral for Fuhrer's chauffeur and loverChapter 9: Feminine characteristicsDr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde; weeping like a baby; submissive, feminine role; chewing the carpet; threats of suicideChapter 10: Physical profileHeight, weight and missing testicle; hypnotic eyes; vegetarian diet & general health; heart attack; Parkinson's diseaseChapter 11: Addictions & obsessionsObsession with syphilis; blow-up sex dolls; bed compulsion; being attacked from behind; hypochondriac; insomniac; master of the syringe; junkieChapter 12: The feminine massesHitler's views on women; lashing himself into a frenzy; mother figures; royalty; fear of humiliation; Movie stars; Leni Riefenstahl and Jenny Jugo; sex shows; pornography & art; myth of the Aryan woman; fear of producing a cretin; underage Catholic girls; was Hitler a pedophile?Chapter 13: Dark desiresSadomasochist; Hitler's whip; urine and feces; coprophilia and undinism; degrading himself; back to his mother's wombChapter 14: Suzi LiptauerMunich 1921; young maids and secretaries; attempted hanging; the actress Pola Negri; hush money and marriage; Hitler's internal struggleChapter 15: Maria ReiterHorse whipped; woodland fairy; suicide attempt; sex with a minor; blackmail; sworn affidavit; one night of passion; sexual tastes too extremeChapter 16: Geli RaubalDoomed angel; more and more obsessive; virtual confinement; sex with the chauffeur; sexual perversions; squatting over Hitler's face; pornographic drawings; sexual confession; in love with a Jew; final argument; Bushido; gunshot to the chest; was it suicide or Hitler's first murder?Chapter 17: Renate MuellerMasochistic gratifications; begging for violent sex; torture techniques; blacklisted; Jewish lover; Gestapo surveillance; addicted to morphine; confined in a sanatorium; jumped to her deathChapter 18: Unity MitfordStalker; yearning for sex; anti-Semite; orgies with SA and SS men; propaganda coup; Hitler's arousal; necromancy; bullet in the brain; 9 years to dieChapter 19: Inge LeyMezzo-soprano; turbulent marriage, constant pain; refuge in morphine; premature birth; bullet in the brainChapter 20: Eva BraunWasted glamor, Eva's despair, two suicide attempts, sex with other men, Fuhrer bunker Berlin, death by cyanide poisoningChapter 21: Hitler's childrenOne son and nine grandchildren

In 1914, Evie's dreams are destroyed when the shadow of World War I descends. Her sweetheart, eighteen-year-old Tom Windridge, leaves the family's farm to serve in the war with his four brothers. Before he goes, Evie gives Tom a small key as a good luck charm - the key to her heart. Evie's spirit is shattered when she learns Tom will not return. Grappling with religious differences and the conscription debate, Evie abandons her values and ambition when wooed by the local priest's charming, yet controlling nephew. Fate intervenes to unlock a new beginning for Evie when Tom's older brother, Jack, returns from the Western Front with the missing key. In a parallel narrative, Evie's great-granddaughter, Lizzie, is dealing with the social challenges of becoming an adult in 2018. In her final year of high school, she suddenly rejects her friends, her study and her principles to start a potentially life-changing relationship with Brandon, a narcissistic football player who conceals his predatory intention. Nick, a fellow student, secretly protects Lizzie, but an altercation with Brandon fills her with shame and regret. A century on, the tiny key once again unlocks the way forward.

Examines the lives of eight women who were a part of the Nazi regime or played a role in its ascendency.

Her heart died in the war – can she breathe new life into it? Dora Simon and Joe O’Cleary live in separate countries, accepting of their twilight years. But their monochrome worlds are abruptly upended by the arrival of Barbara Hummel, who is determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother’s possessions. Forced to confront a time they thought buried in the past, Dora and Joe’s lives unravel – and entwine. For, trapped on the Channel Islands under the German occupation in the Second World War, Dora, a Jewish refugee, had concealed her identity; while Joe, a Catholic priest, kept quite another secret... This is a story of love and betrayal, shame and survival. But can a speck of light diffuse the darkest shadows of war?