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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 Zookeeper’s 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... »
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... »
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... »
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Saraje
Sheesh...this is the product of a child, not the work of a Pulitzer prize winning journalist. It is an excellent diary, an excellent primary source and a... »
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Penguin Classics)
Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a thousand-page scale, Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is a genre-bending masterwork w... »
The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Power
The history of the Balkan states, like that of so much of the world, has for centuries been marked by ethnocidal fracases, savage wars of conquest, and pe... »
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... »
The Balkans: A Short History (Modern Library Ch
A concise and elegant overview of Balkan history. Mazower shows not just the name 'Balkans' but also a lot of western perceptions on the Balkans are of re... »
Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in P
I was prepared to like this book better, as I have a strong interest in Jewish life in Eastern Galicia (present-day West Ukraine) and have traveled in thi... »
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Q
Taner Akcam funded by the Armenian National Committee of America and their political and propaganda machine, pushes his propaganda by randomly selecting q... »
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