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  • We Are Not Afraid

    by Gila Lustiger ...
    In 2015 a terrifying new era began for Paris and the rest of Europe: the attack on the staff of Charlie Hebdo and the terrorist attacks on Paris on November 13 that left 130 people dead. The terrorists were born on French soil. In this award-winning essay, Lustiger explores the historical, social, and political conditions that give rise to terrorism and suggests how we might 'set the world back on ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Inventory

    A Novel

    by Gila Lustiger ...
    Translated by Rebecca Morrison ...
    Combining the authenticity of reportage with the emotional intensity of an extraordinary imagination, The Inventory is a profoundly unsettling account of the effects of Nazi paranoia upon every segment of German society. Writing with piercing clarity and searing irony, Gila Lustiger weaves together the tales of ordinary people swept up in a society where brutal oppression and extermination are ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    A Novel

    A "dazzling first novel" about Japanese Americans and their Wyoming neighbors in the era of WWII internment camps ( Chicago Tribune).A renowned chronicler of life in the West, Gretel Ehrlich turns her talents to a moment in history when American citizens were set against each other, offering "a novel full of immense poetic feeling for the internal lives of its varied characters and the sublime ... Read more

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  • Walter's Welcome

    The Intimate Story of a German-Jewish Family's Flight from the Nazis to Peru

    **Number 47 on Book Authority's 94 Best Nazi Germany Books of All Time!**Walter’s Welcome is the story of Walter Neisser and the more than fifty members of his family he helped to escape Nazi Germany. The story is told through the letters of the Neisser family, which have been meticulously translated and arranged by Walter’s niece, Eva, who also provides moving historical contextualization and ... Read more

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  • Somebody's Daughter

    Inside an International Prostitution Ring

    A stunning exposé of prostitution in Canada, where a criminal syndicate traffics young women across the country, selling their bodies and murdering them at will.Annie Mae Wilson was nineteen years old on the night she died. After five years working the streets of Nova Scotia, she had found a new pimp and cut ties with supermarket bag boy Bruno, who had called himself her man. Bruno was furious and ... Read more

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  • Our Crime Was Being Jewish

    Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories

    In the shouted words of a woman bound for Auschwitz to a man about to escape from a cattle car, If you get out, maybe you can tell the story! Who else will tell it?”Our Crime Was Being Jewish contains 576 vivid memories of 358 Holocaust survivors. These are the true, insider stories of victims, told in their own words. They include the experiences of teenagers who saw their parents and siblings ... Read more

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  • Motherland

    by Maria Hummel ...
    This “haunting” family saga set in WWII Germany “illuminates the reality of war away from the frontlines . . . with a compassion and depth of understanding that will touch your heart” (People).Inspired by the author’s extended family and their status as Mitläufer—Germans who ‘went along’ with Nazism, reaping its benefits and later paying the consequencesInspired by the stories told by her father ... Read more

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  • Giants

    The Dwarfs of Auschwitz

    by Eilat Negev ...
    During the 1930s and 40s the Lilliput Troupe, a beloved and successful family of singers and actors, dazzled with their vaudeville programme and unique performances. The only all-dwarf show of the time, their small stature earned them fame - and, ironically, ultimately saved their lives. As Hitler's war descended, the Ovitz family - seven of whom were dwarfs - was plunged into the horrors of the ... Read more

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  • On the Laps of Gods

    The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation

    They shot them down like rabbits . . .September 30, 1919. The United States teetered on the edge of a racial civil war. During the previous three months, racial fighting had erupted in twenty-five cities. And deep in the Arkansas Delta, black sharecroppers were meeting in a humble wooden church, forming a union and making plans to sue their white landowners, who for years had cheated them out of ... Read more

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  • Satan's Circus

    Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century

    by Mike Dash ...
    They called it Satan’s Circus—a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth century, it was a place where everyone from the chorus girls to the beat cops was on the take and where bad boys became wicked men; a place where an upstanding young policeman such as Charley Becker could become the crookedest cop ... Read more

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  • From Sea to Shining Sea

    A Novel

    “Splendid . . . Thom tells the story with humor and eloquence, and a thumping good tale it is, too.”—The Washington PostIn one generation, the Clark family of Virginia fought for our nation's independence, and explored, conquered, and settled the continent from sea to shining sea. This powerfully written book recreates the warm life of the family, the dangers of the battlefield, the grueling ... Read more

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  • A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich

    The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America's Most Important Spy in World War II

    Translated by George A. Holoch, Jr. ...
    The fascinating true story of a German bureaucrat who worked secretly with the Allies during World War II.In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central Intelligence Agency. That man was Fritz Kolbe, who had decided to betray his country after years of opposing Nazism. While Dulles was skeptical, ... Read more

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