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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
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Amazon Significant Seven, September 2007: On the heels of Alan Weisman's The World Without Us I picked up Diane Ackerman's The Zookeepers Wife. Both books take you to Poland's forest primeval, the Bialowieza, and paint a richly textured portrait of a natural world that few of us would recognize. The similarities end there, ho... »
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Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz
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I have read "Fear" with much pain. As a Pole, each time Gross wrote about how my compatriots killed and robbed their Jewish neighbours, my heart ached. The facts presented in this book have not been unknown to historians, but they were not publicly discussed in Poland for decades. Learning the extent of brutal, murderous Polish anti-semitism during and... »
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The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
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The Great Escape written by Kati Marton depicts a journey that nine Hungarian Jews have undertaken in order to escape the growing hostility in their homeland, and in doing so, they made incredible innovations in the fields of science, film, photography and writing; Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Eugene Wigner, and John von Neumann are the scientists; Rob... »
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Imperium
Perhaps history will never be told better than through the eye of this travelling writer (or is it a writing traveller?). Read and be awed by the staggeri... »
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