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“dov hoenig”

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  • Triumph Street, Bucharest

    by Dov Hoenig ...
    Translated by Gavin Bowd ...
    Bucharest, before and during World War II, where Bernard Davidescou lives with his parents and his older brother on Triumph Street, in the middle of a courtyard block inhabited by a dozen Jewish families and two Christian ones. When Romania, under General Ion Antonescu's dictatorship, allies itself with Hitler and invades the USSR, the Jews in Bucharest face the threat of being sent to the Nazi ... Read more

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  • Night

    by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel ...
    Translated by Marion Wiesel ...
    A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive ... Read more

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  • Mosaic

    A Chronicle of Five Generations

    by Diane Armstrong ...
    From the bestselling author of THE VOYAGE OF THEIR LIFE, WINTER JOURNEY and NOCTURNEthis remarkable true story begins in the Polish city of Krakow in 1890 and spans one hundred years and four continents. God blessed Lieba and the devout Jewish patriarch Daniel Baldinger with eleven children, and this richly textured portrait follows their lives down the decades, through the terrifying years of the ... Read more

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  • The Burning of the World

    A Memoir of 1914

    by Bela Zombory-Moldovan ...
    Translated by Peter Zombory-Moldovan ...
    A Hungarian artist’s haunting WWI memoir of the Eastern Front, executed with a painter’s eye for color, detail, and heartbreaking symbolism“[A] compact self-portrait against a background of carnage and disillusionment.” —The New York TimesThe budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was on holiday when the First World War broke out in July 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Byzantium Endures

    The First Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet

    by Michael Moorcock ...
    Meet Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, also known as Pyat. Tsarist rebel, Nazi thug, continental conman, and reactionary counterspy: the dark and dangerous anti-hero of Michael Moorcock’s most controversial workPublished in 1981 to great critical acclaim—then condemned to the shadows and unavailable in the U.S. for thirty years—Byzantium Endures, the first of the Pyat Quartet, is not a book for the ... Read more

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  • Borderland

    A Journey Through the History of Ukraine

    by Anna Reid ...
    FULLY UPDATED'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture'INDEPENDENTFlat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders, for centuries Ukraine was fought over by more powerful neighbours. Though its modern national movement dates back to the early nineteenth century, it did not win real independence until 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • White Nights

    The Story of a Prisoner in Russia

    by Menachem Begin ...
    WHITE NIGHTS, Menachem Begin’s memoir of his arrest, interrogation and imprisonment by the Soviet authorities after the outbreak of World War II, ranks with House of the Dead and Gulag Archipelago as a masterpiece of prison literature.As the head of Betar, the Zionist youth movement founded by Vladimir Jabotinsky, Begin knew he was under constant surveillance. He watched as his associates either ... Read more

    $5.20 CAD

  • The Patagonian Hare

    A Memoir

    by Claude Lanzmann ...
    The unforgettable memoir of 70 years of contemporary and personal history from the great French filmmaker, journalist and intellectual Claude LanzmannBorn to a Jewish family in Paris, 1925, Lanzmann's first encounter with radicalism was as part of the Resistance during the Nazi occupation. He and his father were soldiers of the underground until the end of the war, smuggling arms and making raids ... Read more

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  • The Invisible Writing

    by Arthur Koestler ...
    The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of a twentieth-century life. The Invisible Writing picks up where the first volume, Arrow in the Blue, ended, with Koestler joining the Communist Party. This second volume goes on to detail some of the most ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Country of Ash

    A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 19391945

    by Edward Reicher ...
    Translated by Magda Bogin ...
    [Dr. Reicher] lived through the Second World War in Poland, dodging bullets, uprisings and deportations-not to mention betrayal, starvation and airless hideouts-in a manner more reminiscent of a talented outlaw than a mild-mannered dermatologist . . . It is the impressive simplicity of the good doctor’s writing that makes [t]his book resemble [Victor] Klemperer’s, and the detailed observations of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Fatal Eggs

    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Roger Cockrell ...
    Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country’s poultry stocks, Persikov’s discovery is exploited as a means to correct the problem. As foreign agents, the state and the Soviet media all seize upon the red ray, matters get out of hand…Set in 1928 ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • City of Lions

    Portrait of a City in Two Acts: Lviv, Then and Now

    by Jozef Wittlin, Philippe Sands ...
    Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    The Ukrainian city Lviv's many names (Lviv, Lvov, Lwow, Lemberg, Leopolis) bear witness to its conflicted past - it has, at one time or another, belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland, Russia and Germany, and has brought forth numerous famous artists and intellectuals. My Lwow, Jozef Wittlin's short 1946 treatise on the city he left in 1922, is a wistful and lyrical study of an ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD