Lynne Olson Books in Order

Edward R. Murrow and his CBS colleagues helped invent radio war reporting while covering the Second World War. This collective history follows their ambitions and dispatches, then examines how commercial pressures changed the journalism they created.

This history follows Black and white women whose organizing helped shape the American civil rights movement. Portraits of celebrated leaders and lesser-known activists reveal how their persistence built campaigns and communities often overshadowed in familiar accounts.

Polish airmen escape occupied Europe to fight with the RAF, becoming celebrated figures in the Battle of Britain. Their wartime achievements contrast with the political betrayal that leaves their homeland under Soviet domination after the conflict.

A small group of Conservative politicians challenges Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policies despite intense pressure from their own party. Their rebellion helps bring Winston Churchill to power at a moment when Britain's survival appears increasingly uncertain.

Before Pearl Harbor, Americans bitterly debate whether to aid Britain or stay outside the European war. Franklin Roosevelt and Charles Lindbergh embody rival positions in a struggle shaped by propaganda, political maneuvering, and deep national divisions.

Britain becomes a refuge for European leaders, soldiers, and intelligence workers driven from their occupied homelands. Their alliances, rivalries, and resistance efforts reveal how exiled Europeans helped sustain the fight against Hitler and prepare their countries' liberation.

Marie-Madeleine Fourcade leads a vast French intelligence network while Nazi occupiers hunt its agents. Balancing family responsibilities with clandestine work, she struggles to keep the organization operating through betrayals, arrests, and the constant threat of execution.

French archaeologist Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt fights to rescue ancient Egyptian temples threatened by the Aswan High Dam. Her campaign against political resistance and engineering obstacles draws international support and reshapes the protection of an endangered cultural inheritance.

French Resistance women imprisoned at Ravensbrück join forces to resist their Nazi captors and keep one another alive. Their solidarity continues after liberation as they seek recovery, preserve their experiences, and pursue recognition and justice.