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  • Trees in the Snow

    by Eva Smiller ...
    The twentieth century was perhaps the most dramatic in the history of humankind. Two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazi Germany and the USSR, technological revolution, and the establishment of the United States as the preeminent world power were the period's hallmarks. It was also the deadliest such stretch (its first half), where accelerating evolutionary trends created vortices of violence ... Read more

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    The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets

    by Father Patrick Desbois ...
    **How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out—In Broad DaylightBased on a decade of work by Father Patrick Desbois and his team at Yahad–In Unum that has culminated to date in interviews with more than 5,700 neighbors to the murdered Jews and visits to more than 2,700 extermination sites, many of them unmarked.One key finding: Genocide does not happen without the neighbors. The ... Read more

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  • The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]

    An Experiment in Literary Investigation

    by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ...
    “BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, this foundational work of Soviet history is Solzhenitsyn’s chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police and political repression that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.“The greatest and most powerful single ... Read more

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  • The Boy on the Wooden Box

    How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List

    by Leon Leyson ...
    “Much like The Boy In the Striped Pajamas or The Book Thief,” this remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler’s list, “brings to readers a story of bravery and the fight for a chance to live” (VOYA).This, the only memoir published by a former Schindler’s list child, perfectly captures the innocence of a small boy who goes through ... Read more

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  • In the First Circle

    The First Uncensored Edition

    by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ...
    The thrilling Cold War masterwork by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Gulag Archipelago, published in full for the first time."Solzhenitsyn's best novel. . . . A great and important book, whose qualities are finally fully available to English-speaking readers." —Washington PostMoscow, Christmas Eve, 1949. In this tense Cold War thriller, the Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Secondhand Time

    The Last of the Soviets

    by Svetlana Alexievich ...
    Translated by Bela Shayevich ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LOS ANGELES TIMESBOOK PRIZE WINNEROne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Witness to Nuremberg

    The Many Lives of the Man who Translated at the Nazi War Trials

    by Richard W. Sonnenfeldt ...
    In Witness to Nuremberg, the chief interpreter for the American prosecution at the Nuremberg trials after World War II offers his insights into dealing directly with Hermann Goering, a leading member of the Nazi Party, as well as the story of his own colorful, eventful life before and after the trials. At age twenty-two, Richard Sonnenfeldt was appointed chief interpreter for the American ... Read more

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  • Under A Cruel Star: A Life In Prague 1941-1968

    by Heda Margolius Kovály ...
    Under A Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968 by Heda Margolius Kovály (68,000 words and 8 photographs)"A story of the human spirit as its most indomitable... one of the outstanding autobiographies of the century." San Francisco Chronicle"Once in a rare while we read a book that puts the urgencies of our time and ourselves in perspective, making us confront the darker realities of human nature... ... Read more

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  • Russians

    The People behind the Power

    by Gregory Feifer ...
    From former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer comes an incisive portrait that draws on vivid personal stories to portray the forces that have shaped the Russian character for centuries-and continue to do so today.Russians explores the seeming paradoxes of life in Russia by unraveling the nature of its people: what is it in their history, their desires, and their conception of themselves that ... Read more

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  • The Gulag Archipelago

    (Complete Edition)

    by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ...
    The Gulag Archipelago was the name of the network of Soviet internment and punishment camps where millions of people were held during the second half of the 20th century. In this monumental document, Solzhenitsyn, who was confined in one of those camps, painstakingly reconstructs life inside the prison industry in Soviet times, and his dissection becomes a journey through fear, pain, cold, hunger ... Read more

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  • The Unquiet Ghost

    Russians Remember Stalin

    by Adam Hochschild ...
    An in-depth exploration of the legacy of Joseph Stalin on the former Soviet Union, by the author of King Leopold's Ghost.Although some twenty million people died during Stalin's reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors, retired concentration ... Read more

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  • The Cap

    The Price of a Life

    by Roman Frister ...
    Translated by Hillel Halkin ...
    A Polish survivor's "brutal and beautifully written" Holocaust memoir. "The power of his portrayal of one man's instinct for survival . . . cannot be denied" ( The Boston Globe ).The Cap is an unconventional Holocaust memoir that defies all moral judgment and ventures into a soul blackened by the unforgiving cruelty of its surroundings. Roman Frister's memoir of his life before, during, and after ... Read more

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