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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fableby John BoyneISBN 0385751060 (0-385-75106-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamasby John BoyneISBN 0385751079 (0-385-75107-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas'Book summary:Book Description
This work was set in Berlin, 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But, Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than what meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Briar Roseby Jane YolenISBN 0765342308 (0-7653-4230-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Briar Rose'Book summary:It is an old, old tale, the German story of Briar Rose, the Sleeping Beauty. Now one of America's most celebrated writers tells it afresh, set this time in the forests patrolled by the German army during World War II. A tale of castles, of mists and thorns, of a beautiful sleeping princess, and an astonishing revelation of death and rebirth.
A tale that will leave you changed forever.
The tale of Briar Rose.
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Denying the Holocaustby Deborah E. LipstadtISBN 0452272742 (0-452-27274-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Denying the Holocaust'Book summary:For years, those who claimed that the death of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps was nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful Zionist conspiracy, were treated as harmless cranks. But over the past decade, they have begun to gain a hearing in respectable arenas. In this text, a social and intellectual history of Holocaust denial, Lipstadt shows how, despite thousands of living witnesses and vast amounts of documentary evidence, this idea has become an international movement, with organized chapters, "independent" research centres and official publications that promote a "revisionist" view of recent history. [via]
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Der Vorleserby Stuart TabernerISBN 1853996491 (1-85399-649-1)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Der Vorleser'Book summary:The theme of the book is the Holocaust and questions of guilt, as it tells the tale of Michael Berg and his affair with Hanna Schmitz, who turns out to have been a guard at Auschwitz and who later hangs herself.
This edition makes the German text accessible to students, providing the full German text, with a substantial Introduction, Commentary, Vocabulary and Bibliography in English.
Bernhard Schlinks novel "Der Vorleser" ("The Reader") has sold over 500,000 copies in Germany, 750,000 in the USA, 200,000 in Britain, and 100,000 in France. It has been translated into 25 languages. [via]More editions of Der Vorleser:
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Der Vorleser: Romanby Bernhard SchlinkISBN 3257060653 (3-257-06065-3)
Hardcover, Diogenes
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The Devil's Arithmeticby Jane YolenISBN 0140345353 (0-14-034535-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Arithmetic'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland. [via]
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The Devil's Arithmetic, 3.99 Promoby Jane YolenISBN 0142404373 (0-14-240437-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Drowned and the Savedby Primo LeviISBN 067972186X (0-679-72186-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Drowned and the Saved'Book summary:This book, published months after Italian writer Primo Levi's suicide in 1987, is a small but powerful look at Auschwitz, the hell where Levi was imprisoned during World War II. The book was his third on the subject, following Survival in Auschwitz (1947) and The Reawakening (1963). Removed from the experience by time and age, Levi chose to serve more as an observer of the camp than the passionate young man of his previous work. He writes of "useless violence" inflicted by the guards on prisoners and then concludes the book with a discussion of the Germans who have written to him about their complicity in the event. In all, he tries to make sense of something that--as he knew--made no sense at all. [via]
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evilby Hannah Arendt, Amos ElonISBN 0143039881 (0-14-303988-1)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil'Book summary:While living in Argentina in 1960, Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped and smuggled to Israel where he was put on trial for crimes against humanity. The New Yorker magazine sent Hannah Arendt to cover the trial. While covering the technical aspects of the trial, Arendt also explored the wider themes inherent in the trial, such as the nature of justice, the behavior of the Jewish leadership during the Nazi Régime, and, most controversially, the nature of Evil itself.
Far from being evil incarnate, as the prosecution painted Eichmann, Arendt maintains that he was an average man, a petty bureaucrat interested only in furthering his career, and the evil he did came from the seductive power of the totalitarian state and an unthinking adherence to the Nazi cause. Indeed, Eichmann's only defense during the trial was "I was just following orders."
Arendt's analysis of the seductive nature of evil is a disturbing one. We would like to think that anyone who would perpetrate such horror on the world is different from us, and that such atrocities are rarities in our world. But the history of groups such as the Jews, Kurds, Bosnians, and Native Americans, to name but a few, seems to suggest that such evil is all too commonplace. In revealing Eichmann as the pedestrian little man that he was, Arendt shows us that the veneer of civilization is a thin one indeed. [via]
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Fatelessby Imre Kertész, Christopher Wilson, Katharina WilsonISBN 0810110245 (0-8101-1024-5)
Hardcover, Northwestern University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fateless'Book summary:One of Publishers Weekly's Fifty Best Books of 1992
Fateless is a moving and disturbing novel about a Hungarian Jewish boys experiences in German concentration camps and his attempts to reconcile himself to those experiences after the war. Upon his return to his native Budapest still clad in his striped prison clothes, fourteen-year-old George Koves senses the indifference, even hostility, of people on the street. His former neighbors and friends urge him to put the ordeal out of his mind, while a sympathetic journalist refers to the camps as "the lowest circle of hell." The boy can relate to neither cliche and is left to ponder the meaning of his experience alone.
George's response to his experience is curiously ambivalent. In the camps he tries to adjust to his ever-worsening situation by imputing human motives to his inhumane captors. By imposing his logic--that of a bright, sensitive, though in many ways ordinary teenager - he maintains a precarious semblance of normalcy. Once freed, he must contend with the "banality of evil" to which he has become accustomed: when asked why he uses words like "naturally," "undeniably," and "without question" to describe the most horrendous of experiences, he responds, "In the concentration camp it was natural." Without emotional or spiritual ties to his Jewish heritage and rejected by his country, he ultimately comes to the conclusion that neither his Hungarianness nor his Jewishness was really at the heart of his fate: rather, there are only "given situations, and within these, further givens."
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Fatelessnessby Imre Kertesz, Tim WilkinsonISBN 1400078636 (1-4000-7863-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fatelessness'Book summary:At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesnt particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, You are no Jew. In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains an outsider.
The genius of Imre Kerteszs unblinking novel lies in its refusal to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is Georgs dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he witnessesor pretending that what he witnesses makes sense. Haunting, evocative, and all the more horrifying for its rigorous avoidance of sentiment, Fatelessness is a masterpiece in the traditions of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Tadeusz Borowski. [via]More editions of Fatelessness:
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Fugitive Piecesby Anne MichaelsISBN 0771058837 (0-7710-5883-7)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fugitive Pieces'Book summary:Anne Michaels, an accomplished poet, has already published two collections of poetry in her native Canada. She turns her hand to fiction in an impressive debut novel, Fugitive Pieces. This is the story of Jakob Beer, a Polish Jew, translator, and poet who, as a child, witnessed his family's slaughter at the hands of the Nazis. Beer himself was found and smuggled out of Poland by Athos Roussos, a Greek archaeologist who carried him back to Greece and kept him there in precarious safety. After the war they emigrated together to Canada. Jakob's story is told through diaries discovered by Ben, a young man whose parents are Holocaust survivors and who is a vessel for their memories just as Jakob is the bearer of his own.
Fugitive Pieces is a book about memory and forgetting. How is it possible to love the living when our hearts are still with the dead? What is the difference between what historical fact tells us and what we remember? More than that, the novel is a meditation on the power of language to free our souls and allow us to find our own destinies. [via]
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Hiding Placeby John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill, Corrie Ten BoomISBN 1577489195 (1-57748-919-5)
Hardcover, Barbour Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hiding Place'Book summary:Corrie ten Boom was a woman admired the world over for her courage, her forgiveness, and her memorable faith. In World War II, she and her family risked their lives to help Jews escape the Nazis, and their reward was a trip to Hitler's concentration camps. But she survived and was released--as a result of a clerical error--and now shares the story of how faith triumphs over evil.
For thirty-five years Corrie's dramatic life story, full of timeless virtues, has prepared readers to face their own futures with faith, relying on God's love to overcome, heal, and restore. Now releasing in a thirty-fifth anniversary edition for a new generation of readers, The Hiding Place tells the riveting story of how a middle-aged Dutch watchmaker became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's death camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century. [via]More editions of Hiding Place:
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Hiding Placeby Corrie Ten BoomISBN 0553256696 (0-553-25669-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hiding Place'Book summary:During the Nazi invasion and occupation of Holland, Corrie ten Boom and her family became leaders in the Dutch underground, hiding Jewish people in their home in a specially built room and aiding their escape from the Nazis. For their pains, all but Corrie found death in a concentration camp. Listeners will experience all the fear and tension associated with hiding from the Nazis during World War II. [via]
Hiding Placeby Elizabeth Sherrill, John L. Sherrill, Corrie Ten BoomISBN 0340160004 (0-340-16000-4)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World Warby Martin GilbertISBN 0805003487 (0-8050-0348-7)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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A Holocaust Readerby Lucy DawidowiczISBN 0874412366 (0-87441-236-6)
Softcover, Behrman House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Holocaust Reader'Book summary:This book is a collection of documents about the destruction and martyrdom of the European Jews under German occupation during World War II. [via]
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The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedyby Martin GilbertISBN 0002163055 (0-00-216305-5)
Hardcover, Collins
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History and Here My Troubles Beganby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0679748407 (0-679-74840-7)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0394747232 (0-394-74723-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History'Book summary:Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a tremendous achievement, from a historical perspective as well as an artistic one.
Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.
This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber [via]
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Never Again : A History of the Holocaustby Martin GilbertISBN 0789304090 (0-7893-0409-0)
Hardcover, Universe Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Never Again : A History of the Holocaust'Book summary:The almost unbelievable story of the Holocaust, told by the authoritative Martin Gilbert, is augmented by firsthand accounts and poignant illustrations. Owing much to "those who have assembled the basic Documentation,", his text is easy to follow and matter-of-fact, allowing the horror of the events to speak for itself. Gilbert's chronological narrative captures, in a tragically compelling way, the dark progress of the gathering evil--from a background of "century after century" of anti-Semitic persecution to the Nuremberg Laws and the death camps. Never Again powerfully counteracts the dehumanizing nature of Nazi extermination. As the statistics "represent real people," names are put to faces in photographs and the stories of individuals (some now household names) are told. Ending with coverage of survivors' postwar lives and the war crimes trials, which have continued practically into the new century, the book gives past events a closer reality. Peppered with "acts of individual and collective bravery," Never Again is also a reminder that hope was never extinguished.
As one of the first German books on the Holocaust stated, "Only if we come to terms with it and understand the lessons of those years, can we free ourselves of the legacy of Hitlerite barbarism." Completed by an extensive bibliography and separate indices of people and places, Never Again makes a superbly lucid and accessible contribution toward creating and maintaining that understanding. --Karen Tiley, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Night Trilogyby Elie WieselISBN 0809015374 (0-8090-1537-4)
Softcover, Hill and Wang
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The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, the Accidentby Elie WieselISBN 0374521409 (0-374-52140-9)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, the Accident'Book summary:Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1960, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Wiesel writes of their battle for survival, and of his battle with God for a way to understand the wanton cruelty he witnesses each day.[via]
In the short novel Dawn (1961), a young man who has survived the Second World War and settled in Palestine is apprenticed to a Jewish terrorist gang. Command to execute a British officer who has been taken hostage, the former victim becomes an executioner.
In The Accident, (1962), Wiesel again turns to fiction to question the limits of the spirit and the self: Can Holocaust survivors forge a new life without the memories of the old? As the author writes in his introduction, "In Night it is the 'I' who speaks; in the other two [narratives], it is the 'I' who listens and questions."
Wiesel's trilogy offers meditations on mankind's attraction to violence and on temptation of self-destruction.
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Night, Dawn, and Dayby Elie WieselISBN 0876688970 (0-87668-897-0)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night, Dawn, and Day'Book summary:Elie Wiesel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, brings together his first three books in this one volume. [via]
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Polandby Christopher R. BrowningISBN 0060995068 (0-06-099506-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland'Book summary:Shocking as it is, this book--a crucial source of original research used for the bestseller Hitler's Willing Executioners--gives evidence to suggest the opposite conclusion: that the sad-sack German draftees who perpetrated much of the Holocaust were not expressing some uniquely Germanic evil, but that they were average men comparable to the run of humanity, twisted by historical forces into inhuman shapes. Browning, a thorough historian who lets no one off the moral hook nor fails to weigh any contributing factor--cowardice, ideological indoctrination, loyalty to the battalion, and reluctance to force the others to bear more than their share of what each viewed as an excruciating duty--interviewed hundreds of the killers, who simply could not explain how they had sunken into savagery under Hitler. A good book to read along with Ron Rosenbaum's comparably excellent study Explaining Hitler. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Periodic Tableby Primo LeviISBN 0805210415 (0-8052-1041-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Periodic Table'Book summary:Writer Primo Levi (1919-1987), an Italian Jew, did not come to the wide attention of the English-reading audience until the last years of his life. A survivor of the Holocaust and imprisonment in Auschwitz, Levi is considered to be one of the century's most compelling voices, and The Periodic Table is his most famous book. Springboarding from his training as a chemist, Levi uses the elements as metaphors to create a cycle of linked, somewhat autobiographical tales, including stories of the Piedmontese Jewish community he came from, and of his response to the Holocaust. [via]
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945by Wladyslaw SzpilmanISBN 0312263767 (0-312-26376-7)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945'Book summary:Written immediately after the end of World War II, this morally complex Holocaust memoir is notable for its exact depiction of the grim details of life in Warsaw under the Nazi occupation. "Things you hardly noticed before took on enormous significance: a comfortable, solid armchair, the soothing look of a white-tiled stove," writes Wladyslaw Szpilman, a pianist for Polish radio when the Germans invaded. His mother's insistence on laying the table with clean linen for their midday meal, even as conditions for Jews worsened daily, makes palpable the Holocaust's abstract horror. Arbitrarily removed from the transport that took his family to certain death, Szpilman does not deny the "animal fear" that led him to seize this chance for escape, nor does he cheapen his emotions by belaboring them. Yet his cool prose contains plenty of biting rage, mostly buried in scathing asides (a Jewish doctor spared consignment to "the most wonderful of all gas chambers," for example). Szpilman found compassion in unlikely people, including a German officer who brought food and warm clothing to his hiding place during the war's last days. Extracts from the officer's wartime diary (added to this new edition), with their expressions of outrage at his fellow soldiers' behavior, remind us to be wary of general condemnation of any group. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Readerby Bernhard SchlinkISBN 0375707972 (0-375-70797-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reader'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 1999: Originally published in Switzerland, and gracefully translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her, and when she disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But, to his horror, he does. Hanna is a defendant in a trial related to Germany's Nazi past, and it soon becomes clear that she is guilty of an unspeakable crime. As Michael follows the trial, he struggles with an overwhelming question: What should his generation do with its knowledge of the Holocaust? "We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable.... Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt? To what purpose?"
The Reader, which won the Boston Book Review's Fisk Fiction Prize, wrestles with many more demons in its few, remarkably lucid pages. What does it mean to love those people--parents, grandparents, even lovers--who committed the worst atrocities the world has ever known? And is any atonement possible through literature? Schlink's prose is clean and pared down, stripped of unnecessary imagery, dialogue, and excess in any form. What remains is an austerely beautiful narrative of the attempt to breach the gap between Germany's pre- and postwar generations, between the guilty and the innocent, and between words and silence. --R. Ellis [via]
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germanyby William ShirerISBN 1567311636 (1-56731-163-6)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'Book summary:Before the Nazies could destroy the files, famed foreign correspondent and historian William L. Shirer sifted through the massive self-documentation of the Third Reich, to create a monumental study that has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of one of the most frightening chapters in the history of mankind--now in a special 30th anniversary edition.
"One of the most important works of history of our time."
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Sophie's Choiceby William StyronISBN 0679736379 (0-679-73637-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophie's Choice'Book summary:Set in Brooklyn in 1947, this is the story of Sophie, a Polish Catholic immigrant who is haunted by her memories of the concentration camp in wartime Europe, and the terrible choice she was forced to make. [via]
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Suite Francaiseby Irene Nemirovsky, Sandra SmithISBN 1400096278 (1-4000-9627-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Suite Francaise'Book summary:By the early l940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Françaisethe first two parts of a planned five-part novelshe was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz: a month later she was dead at the age of thirty-nine. Two years earlier, living in a small village in central Francewhere she, her husband, and their two small daughters had fled in a vain attempt to elude the Nazisshed begun her novel, a luminous portrayal of a human drama in which she herself would become a victim. When she was arrested, she had completed two parts of the epic, the handwritten manuscripts of which were hidden in a suitcase that her daughters would take with them into hiding and eventually into freedom. Sixty-four years later, at long last, we can read Némirovskys literary masterpiece
The first part, A Storm in June, opens in the chaos of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion during which several families and individuals are thrown together under circumstances beyond their control. They share nothing but the harsh demands of survivalsome trying to maintain lives of privilege, others struggling simply to preserve their livesbut soon, all together, they will be forced to face the awful exigencies of physical and emotional displacement, and the annihilation of the world they know. In the second part, Dolce, we enter the increasingly complex life of a German-occupied provincial village. Coexisting uneasily with the soldiers billeted among them, the villagersfrom aristocrats to shopkeepers to peasantscope as best they can. Some choose resistance, others collaboration, and as their community is transformed by these acts, the lives of these these men and women reveal nothing less than the very essence of humanity.
Suite Française is a singularly piercing evocationat once subtle and severe, deeply compassionate and fiercely ironicof life and death in occupied France, and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art. [via]More editions of Suite Francaise:
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The Sunflowerby Simon WiesenthalISBN 0805205780 (0-8052-0578-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sunflower'Book summary:A young Jew listens silently while a dying Nazi begs absolution for taking part in the burning alive of an entire village of Jews. A moral query into the silent response of the Jew follows in the form of a symposium. [via]
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgivenessby Simon Wiesenthal, Harry James Cargas, Bonny V. FettermanISBN 0805210601 (0-8052-1060-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemenby Tadeusz Borowski, Barbara VedderISBN 0140186247 (0-14-018624-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen'Book summary:Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes. Published in Poland after the Second World War, these stories constitute a masterwork of world literature. [via]
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War Against the Jews, 1933-1945by Lucy S. DawidowiczISBN 055334532X (0-553-34532-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945'Book summary:Here is the unparalleled account of the most awesome and awful chapter in the moral history of humanity. Lucid, chilling and comprehensive, Lucy S. Dawidowiczs classic tells the complete story of the Nazi Holocaustfrom the insidious evolution of German Anti-Semitism to the ultimate tragedy of the Final Solution. [via]
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Ell sistema periodico/ The Periodic Systemby Primo LeviISBN 8420632104 (84-206-3210-4)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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El Lector/ the Readerby Schlink BernhardISBN 8433908499 (84-339-0849-9)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Lector/ the Reader'Book summary:Un adolescente conoce a una mujer madura con la que inicia una relacion amorosa. Antes de acostarse juntos, ella siempre le pide que le lea fragmentos de Goethe, Schiller y otros, hasta que un dia ella desaparece. Siete anos despues, el joven, que estudia derecho, acude al juicio de cinco mujeres acusadas de crimenes nazis y descubre que una de ellas es su antigua amante. Una deslumbrante novela sobre el amor, la culpa, el horror y la piedad. / A teenage boy meets an older woman with whom he begins a love affair. Before making love, she always asks him to read him fragments of Goethe, Schiller, Tolstoy and Dickens. The ritual continues until one day she disappears without a trace. Seven years later, the young man, who studies law, is present at the trial of five women accused of Nazi crimes and discovers that one of them is his past lover. This is a dazzling novel about love, blame, horror and mercy. [via]
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Suite Francesaby Irene NemirovskyISBN 8478889825 (84-7888-982-5)
Softcover, Salamandra Publicacions Y Edicions
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Suite Francaiseby Irene NemirovskyISBN 2207256456 (2-207-25645-6)
Hardcover, Denoel
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Suite Francaise'Book summary:434pages. in8. broché jaquette. Ecrit dans le feu de l'Histoire, Suite fran?se d?int presque en direct l'Exode de juin 1940, qui brassa dans un d?rdre tragique des familles fran?ses de toute sorte, des plus hupp? aux plus modestes. Avec bonheur, Ir? N?rovsky traque les innombrables petites l?et?et les fragiles ?ns de solidarit?'une population en d?ute. Cocottes largu? par leur amant, grands bourgeois d?? par la populace, bless?abandonn?dans des fermes engorgent les routes de France bombard? au hasard. Peu ?eu l'ennemi prend possession d'un pays inerte et apeur? Comme tant d'autres, le village de Bussy est pays alors contraint d'accueillir des troupes allemandes. Exacerb? par la pr?nce de l'occupant, les tensions sociales et frustrations des habitants se r?illent. Roman bouleversant, intimiste, implacable, d?ilant avec une extraordinaire lucidit?'? de chaque Fran?s pendant l'Occupation (enrichi des notes et de la correspondance d'Ir? N?rovsky), Suite fran?se ressuscite d'une plume brillante et intuitive un pan ?if de notre m?ire. [via]
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Der Vorlesorby Berhard SchlinkISBN 3257229534 (3-257-22953-4)
Softcover, Diogenes Verlag AG
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I Sommersi E I Salvatiby Primo LeviISBN 8806593080 (88-06-59308-0)
Hardcover, Einaudi
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Sorstalansag: Regenyby Imre KerteszISBN 9631502929 (963-15-0292-9)
Hardcover, Szepirodalmi Konyvkiado
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