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The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive
Philippe Sands - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Baron Otto von Wchter, Austrian lawyer, husband, father, high Nazi official, senior SS officer, former governor of Galicia during the war, creator and overseer of the Krakow ghetto, indicted after as a war criminal for the mass murder of more than 100,000 Poles, hunted by the Soviets, the Americans,... |
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Never Remember: Searching for Stalins Gulags in Putins Russia
Masha Gessen - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"A book that belongs on the shelf alongside The Gulag Archipelago." (Kirkus Reviews) "A short, haunting and beautifully written book." (The Wall Street Journal) The Gulag was a monstrous network of labor camps that held and killed millions of prisoners from the 1930s... |
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Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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Hailed as "remarkable ... incredibly evocative and compelling" (The Washington Post) and "oral history at its finest" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) , Garrett M. Graff's The Only Plane in the Sky is the most vivid and human portrait of the September 11 attacks yet,... |
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Two Rings: A Story of Love and War
Millie Werber - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Judged only as a World War Two survivor's chronicle, Millie Werber's story would be remarkable enough. Born in central Poland in the town of Radom, she found herself trapped in the ghetto at the age of fourteen, a slave laborer in an armaments factory in the summer of 1942, transported... |
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Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America
Bill O'Reilly - Large Print Press; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Paperback
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The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict... |
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At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic
Lawrence Millman - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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At the End of the World is the remarkable story of a series of murders that occurred in an extremely remote corner of the Arctic in 1941. Those murders show that senseless violence in the name of religion is not only a contemporary phenomenon, and that a people as seemingly... |
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