THE GABRIEL HOUNDS
by Mary Stewart · William Morrow and Company
Charles and Christy Mansel decide to enliven their tour of the Middle East by visiting Great-Aunt Harriet, an eccentric recluse.
NIGHT FALLS ON THE CITY
by Sarah Gainham · Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Vienna during the war, when Nazis arrive in Austria, a Viennese actress Julia Homburg, maneuvers to keep her husband, a Jewish Socialist politician, safe.
A NIGHT OF WATCHING
by Elliott Arnold · Charles Scribner's Sons
A novel based on two weeks during World War II, when the Danish Underground smuggled nearly all of the 8000 Jews in Denmark to safety in Sweden.
THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER
by William Styron · Random House
Presents a fictionalized account of the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.
AN OPERATIONAL NECESSITY
by Gwyn Griffin · Putnam
It is January 5, 1945. A French freighter is torpedoed in the South Atlantic. By the laws of war, the shipwrecked survivors should be beyond further attack. But when the U-boat commander orders that they be shot, he justifies it as "an operational necessity." He believes that the safety of his own boat and crew depends on destroying all traces of the sinking. Only later, at an Allied tribunal after V-E Day, are the grim facts fully brought to light in a dramatic confrontation between the sole survivor and the captured German officers.
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