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  • The Hands of War

    A Tale of Endurance and Hope, from a Survivor of the Holocaust

    Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was German. She was Jewish. She was a survivor. This is her story.As a young girl, Marione was aware that people of the Jewish faith were regarded as outsiders, the supposed root of Germany’s many problems. She grew up in an apartment building where neighbors were more than happy to report Jews to the Gestapo. ... Read more

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  • The Hands of Peace

    A Holocaust Survivor's Fight for Civil Rights in the American South

    Born in Hamburg in the 1930s, Marione Ingram survived the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, only to find when she came to the United States that racism was as pervasive in the American South as anti-Semitism was in Europe.Moving first to New York and then to Washington, DC, Marione joined the burgeoning civil rights movement, protesting discrimination in housing, employment, education, and other aspects ... Read more

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  • The Spine-Chilling Tales for Halloween

    Classic Gothic Ghosts, Vampires, Haunted Houses, and Cosmic Terrors for Halloween

    The Spine-Chilling Tales for Halloween surveys the Gothic imagination from its Romantic origins to the weird fiction of the early twentieth century. Its stories range from graveyard reverie, spectral visitation, and ancestral curse to psychological terror, scientific transgression, maritime dread, and cosmic horror. Alongside familiar vampire, phantom, and doubles narratives, the volume offers ... Read more

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  • Writing and constructing the self in Great Britain in the long eighteenth century

    Series Book 4 - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
    The injunction, ‘Know thyself!’, resounding down the centuries, has never lost its appeal and urgency. The ‘self’ remains an abiding and universal concern, something at once intimate, indispensable and elusive; something we take for granted and yet remains difficult to pin down, describe or define. This volume of twelve essays explores how writers in different domains – philosophers and thinkers, ... Read more

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    The First American Tank Battles of World War II

    "An incisive, readable account of a group of National Guard tankers who fought in the Philippines in the opening phase of America's war in the Pacific." —Robert S. Cameron, Ph.D., military historian and author of Mobility, Shock, and Firepower: The Emergence of the U.S. Army's Armor Branch, 1917-1945The American Provisional Tank Group had been in the Philippines only three weeks when the Japanese ... Read more

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  • Spitfire Girl

    An extraordinary tale of courage in World War Two

    An extraordinary life in the shadows of war and a Century in the making.Diana Mackintosh came of age to the drone of sirens alerting the people of Malta to the arrival of relentless flights of belligerent German and Italian menace – the bombers she first imagined as a swarm of black flies, pests that stung and cursed her Mediterranean homeland. The three-year onslaught never took a day off; it was ... Read more

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  • In Broad Daylight

    The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets

    **How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out—In Broad DaylightBased on a decade of work by Father Patrick Desbois and his team at Yahad–In Unum that has culminated to date in interviews with more than 5,700 neighbors to the murdered Jews and visits to more than 2,700 extermination sites, many of them unmarked.One key finding: Genocide does not happen without the neighbors. The ... Read more

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  • The Ventriloquists

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    **“[A] remarkable saga.... Engrossing.” —Booklist, starred reviewIn this triumphant debut inspired by true events, a ragtag gang of journalists and resistance fighters risk everything for an elaborate scheme to undermine the Reich.***The Nazis stole their voices. But they would not be silenced.Brussels, 1943.* Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of ... Read more

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  • Eichmann in My Hands

    A First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler's Chief Executioner

    The true story behind "one of history's great manhunts" and the film Operation Finale by the Mossad legend who caught the most wanted Nazi in the world ( The New York Times).1n 1960 Argentina, a covert team of Israeli agents hunted down the most elusive war criminal alive: Adolf Eichmann, chief architect of the Holocaust. The young spy who tackled Eichmann on a Buenos Aires street—and fought every ... Read more

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    The extraordinary life of the beekeeper who climbed Everest

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    Edmund Hillary – A Biography is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed Mount Everest. A man who against expedition orders drove his tractor to the South Pole; a man honoured around the world for his pioneering climbs yet who collapsed on more than one occasion on a mountain, and a man who gave so much to Nepal yet lost his family to its mountains.The author, Michael Gill, was a close ... Read more

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  • My Train to Freedom

    A Jewish Boy's Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism

    The breathtaking memoir by a member of Nicky’s family,” a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning humanitarian and former Episcopal priest, Ivan Backer.As Backer recounts in his memoir, in May of 1939 as a ten-year-old Jewish boy, he fled Nazi ... Read more

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  • The Escape Artists

    A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War

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    This "fast-paced account" of WWI airmen who escaped Germany's most notorious POW camp is "expertly narrated" by the New York Times bestselling author ( Kirkus, starred review).During World War I, Allied soldiers might avoid death only to find themselves in the abominable conditions of Germany's many prison camps. The most infamous was Holzminden, a land-locked Alcatraz that housed the most escape ... Read more

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