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“naomi shepherd”

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  • Wilfrid Israel

    German Jewry's Secret Ambassador

    by Naomi Shepherd ...
    Wilfrid Israel was a most unlikely hero. Heir to a Jewish business dynasty in Berlin, he was a contemporary of Einstein and Spender in the cosmopolitan circles of Weimar Berlin, and emerged from his world of privilege to become German Jewry's chief (and often anonymous) emissary to the outside world and one of the great unsung heroes of the Holocaust. In the dark days of the 1930s, the ever ... Read more

    $11.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ashes

    and other stories

    by Naomi Shepherd ...
    Naomi Shepherd is a prize-winning historian and biographer; here she turns her hand to fiction, revealing a razor-sharp eye, a finely attuned ear, and a keen sense of cultural dissonance. In each of these thirteen stories we see a different facet of a fast-changing country where the clash of cultures and of expectations creates situations rich in humour, poignancy, disappointment, and tragedy. ... Read more

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  • The Gestapo

    The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police

    by Frank McDonough ...
    A new, comprehensive exploration of the Gestapo from a renowned historian of the Third Reich.Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing accounts of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary people who opposed the Nazi regime. It also tells the equally disturbing stories of the involvement of the German ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Holocaust

    The Human Tragedy

    by Martin Gilbert ...
    The renowned historian weaves a definitive account of the Holocaust—from Hitler's rise to power to the final defeat of the Nazis in 1945.Rich with eyewitness accounts, incisive interviews, and first-hand source materials—including documentation from the Eichmann and Nuremberg war crime trials—this sweeping narrative begins with an in-depth historical analysis of the origins of anti-Semitism in ... Read more

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  • The Holocaust: History in an Hour

    by Jemma J. Saunders ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The Holocaust, in which 11 million people died, was the largest atrocity of the 20th century and perhaps the hardest to understand. Approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million others including Roma people, Poles, Russian prisoners of war, political prisoners, homosexuals, people of colour, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various other minorities were ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • The Holocaust

    A New History

    by Laurence Rees ...
    A visceral history of the Holocaust from the author of Auschwitz.“This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development.”-Antony Beevor, bestselling author of StalingradLaurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • The History of the Holocaust

    by Pat Morgan ...
    For 12 long years between 1933 until 1945, the inhuman Nazi regime in Germany waged a brutal, pitiless war on groups of people whom they considered inferior. Jews, Roma, Slavs, the disabled and homosexuals, as well as political opponents and religious enemies, were among the victims of what would become known as the Holocaust. Jews, whom the Nazis believed had been the authors of their country's ... Read more

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  • The Other Schindlers

    Why Some People Chose to Save Jews in the Holocaust

    by Agnes Grunwald-Spier ...
    Thanks to Thomas Keneally's book Schindler's Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler's List, we have become more aware of the fact that, in the midst of Hitler's extermination of the Jews, courage and humanity could still overcome evil. While 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazi regime, some were saved through the actions of non-Jews whose consciences would not allow them to pass by on the ... Read more

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  • Reporting on Hitler

    Rothay Reynolds and the British Press in Nazi Germany

    by Will Wainewright ...
    Allegedly the only man capable of holding the Führer's intense gaze, Rothay Reynolds was a leading foreign correspondent between the wars and ran the Daily Mail's bureau in Berlin throughout the 1920s and 1930s. The enigmatic former clergyman was one of the first journalists to interview Adolf Hitler, meeting the future Führer days before the Munich Putsch.While the awful realities of the Third ... Read more

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  • The Gestapo

    The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police

    by Frank McDonough ...
    Name as a 2016 Book of the Year by the SpectatorA Daily Telegraph 'Book of the Week' (August 2015)Longlisted for 2016 PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeRanked in 100 Best Books of 2015 in the Daily TelegraphProfessor Frank McDonough is one of the leading scholars and most popular writers on the history of Nazi Germany.Frank McDonough's work has been described as, 'modern history writin... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Hitler’s Girl

    The British Aristocracy and the Third Reich on the Eve of WWII

    by Lauren Young ...
    A timely, riveting book that presents for the first time an alternative history of 1930s Britain, revealing how prominent fascist sympathizers nearly succeeded in overturning British democracy—using the past as a road map to navigate the complexities of today’s turn toward authoritarianism.Hitler’s Girl is a groundbreaking history that reveals how, in the 1930s, authoritarianism nearly took hold ... Read more

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  • The Hitler Years: Triumph, 1933–1939

    by Frank McDonough ...
    From historian Frank McDonough, the first volume of a new chronicle of the Third Reich under Hitler's hand.On January 30th, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the German Chancellor of a coalition government by President Hindenburg. Within a few months he had installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorizing the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD