Passage to Europe, Paperback

The untold story of the crises and compromises that united a continent

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One very special work of art--a Chaim Soutine painting--will connect the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in this enthral...

Growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined the era...

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