Search Results: War Fiction from Encanto Books

Synopsis: A landmark novel that ranked #1 on the New York Timesbestseller list for five months straight, Gentleman's Agreement speaks to the pervasive nature of prejudice after World War II—an issue just as relevant today as when the book was first published
Journalist Philip Green has just moved to New York City from California when the Third Reich falls. To mark this moment in history, his editor at Smith's Weekly Magazine assigns Phil a series of articles on anti-Semitism in America. In order to experience anti-Semitism firsthand, Phil, a Christian, decides to pose as a Jew. What he discovers about the rampant bigotry in America will change him forever.

Comments: Signed by Shaw on the second blank page with tissue guard laid over. Bound in blue full leather with design and lettering stamped in gilt. All edges in gilt. Gray moiré endpapers with ribbon place marker. No d-j issued.
Synopsis: The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Told from the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to the love of his life, Shaw conveys, as no other novelist has since, the scope, confusion, and complexity of war.