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The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman
by Andrzej Szczypiorski, Klara Glowczewska

ISBN 0802135021 (0-8021-3502-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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In the Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow, possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life and death: she has blue eyes and blond hair. With these, and a set of false papers, she has slipped out of the ghetto, passing as the wife of a Polish officer, until one day an informer spots her on the street and drags her off to the Gestapo. At times a dark lament, at others a sly and sardonic thriller, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman is the story of the thirty-six hours that follow Irma's arrest and the events that lead to her dramatic rescue as the last of Warsaw's Jews are about to meet their deaths in the burning ghetto.
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Briar Rose
by Jane Yolen

ISBN 0765342308 (0-7653-4230-8)
Softcover, Tor Books

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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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The Captive Mind
by Czeslaw Milosz

ISBN 0679728562 (0-679-72856-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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The best known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right. [via]
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The Deluge
by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Jeremiah Curtin

ISBN 158963019X (1-58963-019-X)
Softcover, Fredonia Books

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This is the second book of the Trilogy, Poland's national prose epic which has long been "lost" to the Western world. Written by the 1905 Nobel laureate, it is here translated directly into English for the first time and adapted for modern readers by W.S. Kuniczak. It is a panoramic novel of courage, love, faith, treason and redemption, recounting the struggles of Poland against invasions from Russia, Prussia and Sweden in the 17th century. [via]
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Escape from Warsaw
by Ian Serralier

ISBN 0590437151 (0-590-43715-1)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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God's Playground: A History of Poland, 1795 to the Present
by Norman Davies

ISBN 0231128177 (0-231-12817-7)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr

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The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God's Playground demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from medieval times to the present. Abandoning the traditional nationalist approach to Polish history, Norman Davies instead stresses the country's rich multinational heritage and places the development of the Jewish German, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian communities firmly within the Polish context.
Davies emphasizes the cultural history of Poland through a presentation of extensive poetical, literary, and documentary texts in English translation. In each volume, chronological chapters of political narrative are interspersed with essays on religious, social, economic, constitutional, philosophical, and diplomatic themes.
This new edition has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century.
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Heart of Europe: A Short History of Poland
by Norman Davies

ISBN 0192851527 (0-19-285152-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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In this evocative account, Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the social and political inheritance of modern Poland. Beginning with Solidarity and the immediate concerns of the period since 1945, Davies works backward through time to highlight the themes and traditions of the past which are still alive in the present. Davies shows that Poland is the heart of Europe in more than just the geographical sense--it is a country whose fate is a matter of vital concern to European civilization as a whole. [via]
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Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present
by Norman Davies

ISBN 0192801260 (0-19-280126-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nation's history. Beginning with the period since 1945, he travels back in time to highlight the long-term themes and traditions which have influenced present attitudes.

His evocative account reveals Poland as the heart of Europe in more than the geographical sense. It is a country where Europe's ideological conflicts are played out in their most acute form: as recent events have emphasized, Poland's fate is of vital concern to European civilization as a whole.

This revised and updated edition tackles and analyses the issues arising from the fall of the Eastern Bloc, and looks at Poland's future within a political climate of democracy and free market. [via]
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The History of Love
by Nicole Krauss

ISBN 0393328627 (0-393-32862-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Nicole Krauss's The History of Love is a hauntingly beautiful novel about two characters whose lives are woven together in such complex ways that even after the last page is turned, the reader is left to wonder what really happened. In the hands of a less gifted writer, unraveling this tangled web could easily give way to complete chaos. However, under Krauss's watchful eye, these twists and turns only strengthen the impact of this enchanting book.
The History of Love spans of period of over 60 years and takes readers from Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe to present day Brighton Beach. At the center of each main character's psyche is the issue of loneliness, and the need to fill a void left empty by lost love. Leo Gursky is a retired locksmith who immigrates to New York after escaping SS officers in his native Poland, only to spend the last stage of his life terrified that no one will notice when he dies. ("I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even though I'm not thirsty.") Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer vacillates between wanting to memorialize her dead father and finding a way to lift her mother's veil of depression. At the same time, she's trying to save her brother Bird, who is convinced he may be the Messiah, from becoming a 10-year-old social pariah. As the connection between Leo and Alma is slowly unmasked, the desperation, along with the potential for salvation, of this unique pair is also revealed.
The poetry of her prose, along with an uncanny ability to embody two completely original characters, is what makes Krauss an expert at her craft. But in the end, it's the absolute belief in the uninteruption of love that makes this novel a pleasure, and a wonder to behold. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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- The History of Love: ISBN 0393060349 (0-393-06034-9)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
by Ian MacLean, Jan Potocki

ISBN 0670834289 (0-670-83428-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA

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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
by Jan Potocki, Ian MacLean

ISBN 0140445803 (0-14-044580-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Maus: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History and Here My Troubles Began
by Art Spiegelman

ISBN 0679748407 (0-679-74840-7)
Softcover, Pantheon Books

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  Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History
by Art Spiegelman

ISBN 0394747232 (0-394-74723-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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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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Maus: A Survivors's Tale/Here My Troubles Began
by Art Spiegelman

ISBN 0679729771 (0-679-72977-1)
Softcover, Pantheon Books

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Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph"* and a "brutally moving work of art,"** the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. As the New York Times Book Review commented," [it is] a remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness...an unfolding literary event."

This long-awaited sequel, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father.

Vladek's troubled remarriage, minor arguments between father and son, and life's everyday disappointments are all set against a backdrop of history too large to pacify. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale -- and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors. [via]
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Mila 18
by Leon Uris

ISBN 0553241605 (0-553-24160-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy--and a time of transcendent courage and determination. Leon Uris's blazing novel is set in the midst of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fists. Here, painted on a canvas as broad as its subject matter, is the compelling of one of the most heroic struggles of modern times.

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- Mila 18: ISBN 0385020767 (0-385-02076-7)
  Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Christopher R. Browning

ISBN 0060995068 (0-06-099506-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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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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- Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland: ISBN 0060190132 (0-06-019013-2)
  Hardcover, Harpercollins
- Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland: ISBN 0060995068 (0-06-099506-8)
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
by Wladyslaw Szpilman

ISBN 0312263767 (0-312-26376-7)
Softcover, Picador USA

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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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Poland
by James A. Michener

ISBN 0449205878 (0-449-20587-8)
Softcover, Fawcett Books

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Michener's novel covering Poland's recent history, with its conflict between Church and State, worker and leader, and the Poland of centuries gone by, struggling to retain its land and identity in the face of stronger powers on all sides. Interwoven with the action are the fates of three families. [via]
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Polish Officer
by Alan Furst

ISBN 0375758275 (0-375-75827-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture
by Adam Zamoyski

ISBN 0781802008 (0-7818-0200-8)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books

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  Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Push Not The River
by James Conroyd Martin

ISBN 0312311532 (0-312-31153-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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Push Not the River: A Novel Inspired by a True Story
by James Conroyd Martin

ISBN 0738831409 (0-7388-3140-9)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corporation

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Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw
by Norman Davies

ISBN 0143035401 (0-14-303540-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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In August 1944, Warsaw presented the last major obstacle to the Red Armys triumphant march from Moscow to Berlin. When the Wehrmacht was pushed back to the Vistula River, the Polish Resistance poured forty thousand fighters into the streets to drive out the hated Germans. But Stalin halted the Russian offensive, allowing the Wehrmacht to regroup and destroy the city. For sixty-three days Soviet troops and other Allied forces watched from the sidelines as tens of thousands of Poles were slaughtered and Warsaw was reduced to rubble.
Like Antony Beevors bestselling The Fall of Berlin, Rising 44 is a brilliant narrative of one of the most dramatic episodes in twentieth-century history. [via]
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Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally

ISBN 1568951051 (1-56895-105-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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Oskar Schindler risks his life to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in the concentration camps of World War II. Based on a true story, the book was adapted by Steven Spielberg into one of the most important and powerful war films of all time. [via]
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Schindler's List Piano Solos
by John Williams

ISBN 0793532779 (0-7935-3277-9)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp

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8 beautiful piano solos from the Oscar-winning movie. Pieces include: Theme from Schindler's List Give Me Your Names I Could Have Done More Stolen Memories and more. Features photos from the film. [via]
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Silver Sword
by Ian Serraillier

ISBN 0875991041 (0-87599-104-1)
Hardcover, S G Phillips

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A moving account of a journey through war-torn Europe.

Alone and fending for themselves in a Poland devastated by war, Jan and his three homeless friends cling to the silver sword as a symbol of hope. As they travel through Europe towards Switzerland, where they believe they will be reunited with their parents, they encounter many hardships and dangers. [via]
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The Street of Crocodiles
by Bruno Schulz

ISBN 0140186255 (0-14-018625-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant family's life are evoked in a statling blend of the real and fantastic. Most memorable and most chilling is the portrait of the author's father, a maddened shopkeeper who imports rare birds' eggs to hatch in his attic, who believes tailors' dummies should be treated like people, and whose obsessive fear of cockroaches causes him to resemble one. Bruno Shultz, a Polish Jew killed by Nazis in 1942 is considered by many to have been the leading Polish writer between the two world wars. [via]
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The Street of Crocodiles
by Simon McBurney

ISBN 0413738701 (0-413-73870-1)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd

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Tales from the Saragossa Manuscript: Or, Ten Days in the Life of Alphonse Van Worder
by Jan Potocki

ISBN 0870529366 (0-87052-936-6)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books

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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
by Tadeusz Borowski, Barbara Vedder

ISBN 0140186247 (0-14-018624-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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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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Tin Drum
by Gunter Grass, Ralph Manheim

ISBN 067972575X (0-679-72575-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Meet Oskar Matzerath, "the eternal three-year-old drummer." On the morning of his third birthday, dressed in a striped pullover and patent leather shoes, and clutching his drumsticks and his new tin drum, young Oskar makes an irrevocable decision: "It was then that I declared, resolved, and determined that I would never under any circumstances be a politician, much less a grocer; that I would stop right there, remain as I was--and so I did; for many years I not only stayed the same size but clung to the same attire." Here is a Peter Pan story with a vengeance. But instead of Never-Never Land, Günter Grass gives us Danzig, a contested city on the Polish-German border; instead of Captain Hook and his pirates, we have the Nazis. And in place of Peter himself is Oskar, a twisted puer aeternis with a scream that can shatter glass and a drum rather than a shadow. First published in 1959, The Tin Drum's depiction of the Nazi era created a furor in Germany, for the world of Grass's making is rife with corrupt politicians and brutal grocers in brown shirts:
There was once a grocer who closed his store one day in November, because something was doing in town; taking his son Oskar by the hand, he boarded a Number 5 streetcar and rode to the Langasser Gate, because there as in Zoppot and Langfuhr the synagogue was on fire. The synagogue had almost burned down and the firemen were looking on, taking care that the flames should not spread to other buildings. Outside the wrecked synagogue, men in uniform and others in civilian clothes piled up books, ritual objects, and strange kinds of cloth. The mound was set on fire and the grocer took advantage of the opportunity to warm his fingers and his feelings over the public blaze.
As Oskar grows older (though not taller), portents of war transform into the thing itself. Danzig is the first casualty when, in the summer of 1939, residents turn against each other in a pitched battle between Poles and Germans. In the years that follow, Oskar goes from one picaresque adventure to the next--he joins a troupe of traveling musicians; he becomes the leader of a group of anarchists; he falls in love; he becomes a recording artist--until some time after the war, he is convicted of murder and confined to a mental hospital.
The Tin Drum uses savage comedy and a stiff dose of magical realism to capture not only the madness of war, but also the black cancer at the heart of humanity that allows such degradations to occur. Grass wields his humor like a knife--yes, he'll make you laugh, but he'll make you bleed, as well. There have been many novels written about World War II, but only a handful can truly be called great; The Tin Drum, without a doubt, is one. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
by Louise Murphy

ISBN 0142003077 (0-14-200307-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Trumpeter of Krakow
by Eric Philbrook Kelly, Janina Domanska

ISBN 0689715714 (0-689-71571-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &

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For well over thirty years, Eric P. Kelly's Newbery Award winner has brought the color and romance of ancient times to young readers. Today, "The Trumpeter of Krakow" is an absorbing and dramatic as when it was first published in 1928. [via]
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With Fire and Sword
by Henryk Sienkiewicz

ISBN 141010057X (1-4101-0057-X)
Softcover, Fredonia Books

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This powerful novel, "a Polish Gone with the Wind" (New York Times Book Review), is set in the 17th century and follows the struggle of the kingdom of Poland to maintain its unity in the face of the Cossack-led peasant rebellion. Foreword by James Michener. [via]
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Die Abenteuer in Der Sierra Morena, Oder, Die Handschriften Von Saragossa: Roman
by Jan Potocki, Leszek Kukulski

ISBN 3251200119 (3-251-20011-9)
Hardcover, Haffmans Verlag

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Die Blechtrommel
by Günter Grass

ISBN 3423118210 (3-423-11821-0)
Softcover, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co KG

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Nachdem sich der vor der Gendarmerie flüchtende Brandstifter Joseph Koljaiczekauf einem kaschubischen Kartoffelacker unter den Röcken Anna Bronskis versteckthatte, bringt diese neun Monate später ihre Tochter Agnes zur Welt. Späterheiratet Agnes den arglosen Rheinländer Alfred Matzerath, obwohl sie zugleicheine erotische Beziehung zu ihrem Vetter Jan führt. Ihr Kind Oskar Matzerath,gezeugt von Jan, erblickt 1924 das Licht dieser Welt in Gestalt zweierSechzig-Watt-Glühbirnen. Von Beginn an durchschaut er die Erwachsenenweltund beschließt an seinem dritten Geburtstag, an dem er eine Blechtrommelgeschenkt bekommt, durch einen beabsichtigten Sturz von der Kellertreppesein Wachstum einzustellen. Seine Größe, sein infantiles Benehmen und seineBlechtrommel täuschen über Oskars geistige und körperliche Reife hinweg,früh meldet sich sein sexuelles Begehren. Er erlebt die Machtergreifungder Nationalsozialisten, die Reichskristallnacht und den Kriegsausbruch.Seiner Familie bringt Oskar nur wenig Glück Am Tod seiner Mutter sowieseiner beiden Väter ist er nicht ganz unschuldig. Bei Kriegsende beschließtOskar Matzerath wieder zu wachsen, doch ist dieses Vorhaben nur mäßig erfolgreichZwar wächst er tatsächlich einige Zentimeter, doch drückt sich seine Schuldnun auch äußerlich durch Verwachsungen aus, insbesondere durch einen Buckel.Mit seinem Kindermädchen Maria, der er vermutlich ein Kind geschenkt hat,zieht er nach Düsseldorf, wo er als Jazzschlagzeuger ein reicher Mann wird.Der Ermordung einer Krankenschwester angeklagt, wird er in ein Irrenhauseingeliefert. [via]
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Schindler's Liste
by Thomas Keneally, Gunther Danehl

ISBN 3442425298 (3-442-42529-8)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Taschenbuch, 345 Seiten / guter Zustand [via]
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Manuscrito Encontrado En Zaragoza/ Manuscript Found in Saragossa
by Jan Potocki, Julio Caro Baroja, Jose Luis Cano

ISBN 8420655198 (84-206-5519-8)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Polonia/Poland
by James A. Michener

ISBN 968131557X (968-13-1557-X)
Softcover, Ediana/Edivision-Mexico

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El Tambor De Hojalata/the Tin Drum
by Gunter Grass

ISBN 8495501368 (84-95501-36-8)
Softcover, Punto De Lectura

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On the day of his third birthday the main character, Oskar Matzerath, decides to stop growing. The same day he receives his first tin drum, which will be with him as he travels around Europe. He works as an artist's model, enrolls in a troupe of traveling musicians, deals in the black market, and becomes a leader of a group of anarchists. the drum will be the key to all Oskar's memories, even when some time after the war he is confined to a mental institution convicted of a murder he did not commit.
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El día de su tercer cumpleaños es un fecha determinante en la vida de Oscar, el pequeño que no quería crecer. No sólo es el día en que toma la decisión de dejar crecer, sino que recibe su primer tambor de hojalata, objeto que habrá de convertirse en compañero inseparable para el resto de sus días. La crítica mordaz, la ironía despiadada, el espectacular sentido del humor y la libertad creadora con que Günter Grass construye esta obra maestra convierten a "El tambor de hojalata" en uno de los títulos más deatacados de la historia de la literatura. [via]
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Manuscrit Trouve a Saragosse De Jean Potocki
by Jan Potocki, Rene Radrizzani

ISBN 2714303145 (2-7143-0314-5)
Hardcover, J. Corti

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