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“raphael rupert”

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  • A Hidden World

    by Raphael Rupert ...
    A Hidden World, first published in 1963, recounts the nine years spent by Hungarian Raphael Rupert in the prison camps of Soviet Russia—the Gulag. At the time of his arrest in 1947, Rupert was working from the British Embassy in Budapest. His trial, based on a presumed confession of acting as a spy, ended in his sentence to Camp 10 for 25 years of 'forced labor.' A Hidden World describes the daily ... Read more

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    by Edward Watson ...
    With the Nazi invasion of Hungary underway, the German army was determined to round up as many Jews as they could and place them into concentration camps. “A Doctor in Auschwitz” is a harrowing tale of survival. It follows one Jewish doctor who was spared and forced to perform experiments on his fellow prisoners. This is a first-hand account of his often brutal assignments, sparing no details.With ... Read more

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  • The Gulag Archipelago

    The Authorized Abridgement

    by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ...
    The official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" —TimeThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature and a landmark of Russian history, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum."It is impossible to name a book that ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Gulag (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    A History

    by Anne Applebaum ...
    **PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.“A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships can be.” —The New York Times**A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyThe ... Read more

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  • I Can Live No Longer: The Story of an Indomitable Man, the only Volunteer to Auschwitz.

    by Jeremy Kowalski ...
    He evaded death so many times it seemed it would never take him. The only man in history to go to Auschwitz as a volunteer, to form a resistance movement and document German atrocities. One of the few who succeeded in escaping. He sent drawings from there to his children and wrote letters to his wife, delivering them via the underground conspiracy along with reports. The British historian Michael ... Read more

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  • The Bridge at Andau

    The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People

    by James A. Michener ...
    The Bridge at Andau is James A. Michener at his most gripping. His classic nonfiction account of a doomed uprising is as searing and unforgettable as any of his bestselling novels. For five brief, glorious days in the autumn of 1956, the Hungarian revolution gave its people a glimpse at a different kind of future—until, at four o’clock in the morning on a Sunday in November, the citizens of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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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

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story Of Auschwitz [Illustrated Edition]

    by Olga Lengyel ...
    Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birkenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It was a shocking experience. It is a shocking book.".. ... Read more

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  • Treblinka

    A Survivor's Memory

    Translated by Solon Beinfeld ...
    by Chil Rajchman ...
    Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas chambers, but Rajchman escaped execution, working for ten months under incessant threats and beatings as a barber, a clothes-sorter, a corpse-carrier, a puller of teeth from ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Voices from the Holocaust

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    The testament to a tragedy.Voices from The Holocaust follows the whole history of the 'Shoah' from Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of 'The Final Solution' take centre stage. It tells the story from the perspective of the people who were there, and were witnesses - on both sides - of the horror.While some of the eye-witnesses are well ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Milena

    by Margarete Buber-Neumann ...
    Margarete Buber, the journalist daughter of Martin Buber, and Milena Jesenska, the beautiful lover of Kafka, met in Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1940. For four terrible years, the two women formed an extraordinary bond and made a pact that if only one survived, the other would bear witness. Only Margarete lived to remember. This is her story of Milena-of fearless love, sacrifice, and nobility ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Five Chimneys

    A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz

    by Olga Lengyel ...
    Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It was a shocking experience. It is a shocking book. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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