Books by John Jay
My latest book, Ninette’s War: A Jewish Story of Survival in 1940s France, will be published by Profile Books in January 2025. My previous book, Facing Fearful Odds: My father’s story of captivity, escape and resistance 1940-1945, was published in 2014.
Ninette’s War
Discover the heart-wrenching true story of a young Jewish woman coming of age in wartime France.
“
John Jay’s reclaiming of the wartime odyssey in France of Ninette Dreyfus … is spellbinding. A worthy recalling of the past in the dark times of the present”
Colin Shindler, Emeritus Professor, University of London
Facing Fearful Odds
One man’s experiences as a Second World War volunteer rifleman and prisoner of war, as told by his son, using archive material from four countries and many other sources including numerous POW memoirs.
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Facing Fearful Odds is well written … The most moving part of the book is the epilogue, where the author discusses a father always beyond his reach…”
Nigel Perrin, author of Spirit of Resistance – The Life of SOE Agent Harry Peulevé, The Times Literary Supplement
