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  • A Life

    by Simone Veil ...
    Translated by Tamsin Black ...
    Simone Veil, the former French lawyer and politician who became the first President of the European Union, was born Simone Jacob in 1927. In A Life, she describes in vivid detail a childhood of happiness and innocence spent in Nice that came to an abrupt end in 1944 when, at the age of 17, she was deported with her family to concentration camps. Though she survived, her mother, father, and brother ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Veiled Sun

    From Auschwitz to New Beginnings

    by Paul Schaffer ...
    The Veiled Sun: From Auschwitz to New Beginnings by Paul Schaffer and Translated from the French by Vivian Felsen with a Foreword by Serge Klarsfeld and an Introduction by Simone Veil.The Veiled Sun is a Holocaust memoir written in a highly literate style. Paul Schaffer spent his teenage years on the run from the Nazis in Austria, Belgium and France, and then in Auschwitz from 1942 to 1945. He ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Mitterrand

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  • The Passage to Europe

    How a Continent Became a Union

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  • Barbarism and Civilization

    A History of Europe in our Time

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  • The Summit

    The Biggest Battle of the Second World War - fought behind closed doors

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    The idea of world leaders gathering in the midst of economic crisis has become all-too familiar. But the summit at Bretton Woods in 1944 was the only time countries from around the world have agreed to overhaul the structure of the international monetary system. And, what's more, they were successful - it was the closest to perfection the world's economy has ever been, and arguably the demise of ... Read more

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  • Greatness

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