The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis, Paperback - David E. Fishman

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DescriptionIn August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her aw...

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As Adolf Eichmann sent hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz gas chambers, the Jews of Budapest needed the eyewitness testimony of A...

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A Jewish boy kills a Nazi by the Polish ghetto. He must escape the Third Reich, at all costs.Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General DivisionAuthor(s...

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Representing four centuries of collecting and 1, 000 years of Jewish history, this book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare b...

``A most valuable book.`` --Christian Science Monitor For readers of The Monuments Men and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the story of the Nazis' system...

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A Jewish boy kills a Nazi by the Polish ghetto. He must escape the Third Reich, at all costs.

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An electrifying memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential ...

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This Element expands on alternative political identifications as a result of decaying party identification to better understand different levels of...

In this timely new work, Professor Brett Kahr investigates Sigmund Freud's own personal struggle with many near-death experiences, ranging from the...

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The compelling story of the army chaplain who was sent to save the souls of the Nazis incarcerated at Nuremberg, raising questions of faith, guilt,...

Reducere. On the night the SS rounded up the Jews of his Ukrainian ghetto, eighteen-year-old Yosel Epelbaum crawled on his hands and knees to a nearby forest...

"Suddenly two pairs of black boots appeared in the shrubbery near us... I looked up very, very slowly, from the boots to the uniforms and all the w...

Reducere. This devotional book traces the course of David's life through his autobiographical Psalms: From triumphant boy hero to persecution in the court of...

A powerfully moving family memoir of loss, exile and self-concealment in Nazi Germany.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Simon MayIllustration(s): ...

Reducere. David Hatcher Childress, popular author and star of the History Channel's show Ancient Aliens, brings us the incredible tale of Nazi submarines and...

Sex and the Weimar Republic shows how, in Weimar Germany, the citizen's right to sexual freedom came with a duty to keep sexuality private, non-com...

A race against time thriller from the award-winning author of Brandenburg and Firefly

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Leah GarrettNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 28Cover type: Paperback / sof...

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A textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement.

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The incredible story of nuclear fusion and the quest to replicate a star on earth, to power the planet and solve the climate emergency.

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