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  • The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era

    Presenting the Past

    by Susan Brantly ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
    This volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past. How does an author’s nationality or gender impact their artistic choices? To what extent can historical novels appeal to a transnational audience? This study demonstrates how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • When the World Closed Its Doors

    Struggling to Escape Nazi-occupied Europe

    by Ida Piller-Greenspan, Susan M. Branting ...
    "[A] memoir of one couple's escape from the Nazis ...[full of] ingenuity and determination." Michael R. Marrus, Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto At the beginning of World War II, the US and other countries erected a "paper wall"-- a bureaucratic maze that prevented all but a small number of Jewish refugees from emigrating from Nazi-Occupied Europe.When the World Closed Its ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • By My Mother's Hand

    by Michael Melnick ...
    Holocaust survivor HENRY MELNICK was born in Lodz, Poland. Shortly after the Nazis occupied Poland in 1939, he was sent to do slave labour in the Nowy Sacz and Tarnow Ghettos and at Szebnie camp. He was then transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna, Dora-Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen death camps. When his parents were murdered in the Belzec death camp, he became the sole survivor of his entire family ... Read more

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  • In Broad Daylight

    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

    $16.99 USD

  • Night Soldiers

    A Novel

    by Alan Furst ...
    Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin’s purges, Khristo flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-createsthe European world of 1934–45: the struggle between Nazi Germany and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Dark Star

    A Novel

    by Alan Furst ...
    Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. André Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars and a foreign correspondent for Pravda, is co-opted by the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and becomes a full-time spymaster in Paris. As deputy director of a Paris network, Szara finds his own star rising ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Berlin Diary

    by William L. Shirer ...
    The author of the international bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers a personal account of life in Nazi Germany at the start of WWII.By the late 1930s, Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Nazi Party, had consolidated power in Germany and was leading the world into war. A young foreign correspondent was on hand to bear witness.More than two decades prior to the publication of his ... Read more

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  • Letters and Dispatches 1924-1944

    The Man Who Saved Over 100,000 Jews, Centennial Edition

    by Raoul Wallenberg ...
    The best way to hear the story of Raoul Wallenberg is through his own words. Put together from three different collections, Letters and Dispatches is the most thorough book of Wallenberg’s writings and letters. With his disappearance behind the Iron Curtain in January of 1945, he became tragically mysterious. While the story of Wallenberg has been told many times over, the best way we can possibly ... Read more

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  • The Nightmare Years, 1930–1940

    by William L. Shirer ...
    Series Book 2 - Twentieth Century Journey
    The famous journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich documents his front row seat at the pivotal events leading up to World War II.In the second of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer tells the story of his own eventful life, detailing the most notable moments of his career as a journalist stationed in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Shirer was there while ... Read more

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  • Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death

    A Holocaust Childhood

    by Cerda Bikales ...
    "This is a beautifully written, insightful chronicle of a young girl's Holocaust survival. Though very private and personal, it nevertheless captures the common torments of children living through this disastrous civilizational breakdown.What makes this book unique is that the author pulls the reader into the story. We get to know her parents and other memorable characters for the kind of people ... 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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  • Never Be Afraid: A Belgian Jew in the French Resistance

    by Ken Wachsberger, Bernard Mednicki ...
    "Never Be Afraid: A Belgian Jew in the French Resistance" is the powerful, poignant, at times funny story of Bernard Mednicki, a working-class, activist member of his socialist union in pre-Nazi Belgium who flees with his family to southern France when the Nazis invade, assumes a Christian identity, and, through a series of events, joins the Maquis, the French resistance. Mednicki is a survivor ... Read more

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