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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story Best Price: $14.20 This book was a disappointment. It sounded so interesting. A true war story of the Warsaw Zoo.... | Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Best Price: $4.55 Christopher Browning is a distinguished historian of the horror of the Nazi holacaust against... | Survival In Auschwitz Best Price: $4.95 Mr. Levi's ability to recount his experience with such emotional clarity allowed me to take in a... | All But My Life Best Price: $5.45 This is one of the first Holocaust survival stories that I read. It is by far one that has... | Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed Best Price: $15.95 Although I am not Jewish I feel the same as the Jews that Holocaust books MUST be read. I was... |
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Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers Best Price: $7.36 An outstanding account of one man's experiance. I liked the way the story was told with more of... | Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland Best Price: $8.40 This book is very informative and depressingly good. I read it twice, doing lots of underlying... | Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account Best Price: $7.03 The problem with this book is that it thrusts a very negative and dark side of life into all... | The Great Escape Best Price: $7.89 The Real Deal! No "Steve Mcqueen" character, but everyone a true hero.The Great Escape | Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language Best Price: $8.45 this was one of the best books i've ever read. it was packed with profound insights. the writing... |
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Auschwitz: True Tales From a Grotesque Land Best Price: $11.61 This book is a fascinating. I enjoyed the different stories that wove this book together. I'm... | Another Day of Life Best Price: $7.89 Kapuscinski was the only journalist in Angola during that time. He arrived there in september, I... | Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive Best Price: $11.76 Remnants of Auschwitz is one of Agamben's earlier works, but his cutting intelligence definitely... | A Traveller's History of Poland (Traveller's History Series) Best Price: $8.98 Even if you're not traveling, you can travel in your armchair with this history. A great way to... | They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust Best Price: $25.35 This book is a treasure! It provides reminiscences in text and in paintings of a Polish Jewish... |
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The Fantastic Art of Beksinski (Masters of Fantastic Art) Best Price: $14.65 wow, the images of beksinski always have a dark hole in them which draws you in. what an... | A Concise History of Poland (Cambridge Concise Histories) Best Price: $11.49 This book gives balanced detail to the different epochs of Polish history beginning with... | From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival (Jewish Lives) Best Price: $12.92 I thought this book was okay, but for some reason I was not as enthralled by it as "Escape... | Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present Best Price: $12.49 In the preface to the first edition published in 1984, Norman Davies writes, "No history... | Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began Best Price: $5.70 Reading about science and scientists can sometimes be tedious. Only the best writers are able to... |
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The Kingdom of Auschwitz: 1940-1945 Best Price: $2.80 This is an excellent historical primer on the initiation, conduct, discovery, and destruction of... | God's Playground, Vol. 2: A History of Poland Best Price: $23.50 Pros:
As far as I can tell this book has been written objectively and describes the history of... | Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941-1945 Best Price: $8.39 Excellent book. Covers the Eastern front from a General's point
of view who explains his... | Echoes from the Holocaust: A Memoir Best Price: $7.95 Mira lived to tell the tale of the holocaust. She's carried the message of strength and... | Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies) Best Price: $22.72 A fantastic, I am tempted to say a definitive book about this compelling issue. For sure a... |
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Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity Best Price: $23.41 It is well worth reading but I wish it was longer and more detailed. And, would it be so... | Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter Best Price: $7.00 I am disappointed in this book. The premise is good, and the author lived through it. However,... | Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment (Annals of Communism Series) Best Price: $28.13 The Polish people suffered dearly in the Second World War. Three Million Jewish Poles were... | For Those I Loved Best Price: $2.99 I just had the "pleasure" of having to remove all my books from my office so the room... | Every Day Lasts A Year: A Jewish Family's Correspondence from Poland Best Price: $10.00 The correspondence from Polish Jews living during the early phases of the German occupation of... |
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Weeds Like Us Best Price: $13.09 I finished this book in a matter of days, because it was so interesting!
Gunter Nitsch tells a... | The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days Of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Best Price: $8.98 Unfortunately, because of their difficult Polish names, the main characters did not stick in my... | The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 Best Price: $7.32 This book is an incredible story of survival. I have seen the movie also. I would recommend both! | The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 Best Price: $15.50 Well, being born in one of those Central Belarussian towns I would say I agree with 95% of... | Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw Best Price: $10.64 Norman Davies gives us a work of art in Rising 44. We expect impeccable research from one of the... |
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A Secret Life: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country Best Price: $3.81 Move over, James Bond! Instead of repeating other reviewers, let's focus mostly on the... | Lodz Ghetto: A History (Philanthropic & Nonprofit Stud) Best Price: $16.21 LODOZ GHETTO: A HISTORY represents the first English translation of Isiah Trunk's study,... | The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto Best Price: $11.00 This review is based on the 1996 Oxford hardback edition. Sierakowiak devotes a considerable... | Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History Best Price: $22.00 I must say that I find this work hard to properly describe in terms of how I feel about it. I... | Polish Roots Best Price: $15.00 Gave me some excellent sources of information to futher pursue family tree. Sources were many... |
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Polish Sausages, Authentic Recipes And Instructions Best Price: $17.73 I'll echo Len Poli's critique of this book. This is a must-have. While many of the recipes seem... | The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (Third Edition) Best Price: $15.80 This book, as far as I can tell, remains to this day one of the best written and most... | White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-1920 and "The Miracle on the Vistula" Best Price: $18.72 The "Miracle of the Vistula" was undoubtedly one of the most decisive battles in... | Commandant of Auschwitz : The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess Best Price: $8.21 After Dachau was liberated, Army intelligence interviewed a woman at the camp who claimed to... | Treblinka Best Price: $8.99 The following review is based on the original (1967) edition. The book begins with accounts of... |
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Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers Best Price: $3.87 Meticulously researched and documented about the bestial crimes visited on the Jews by the SS,... | Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers Best Price: $3.87 Meticulously researched and documented about the bestial crimes visited on the Jews by the SS,... | Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Best Price: $10.45 I find this to be one of the most interesting books that I have read about the Warsaw Ghetto... | Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka (Jewish Lives) Best Price: $13.64 Richard Glazar was one of the few people to have survived the Treblinka death camp. He was... | From A Name to A Number: A Holocaust Survivor's Autobiography Best Price: $11.24 I am a teacher who has had the privilege of hearing Mr. Wiener several times, as a guest speaker... |
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Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union (Eighth Edition) Best Price: $18.00 An interesting book. The first section describes the gradual tightening of legal restrictions on... | After Long Silence Best Price: $2.35 I'm sorry but I couldn't finish it... so I did not get to the part of the author being lesbian... | Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, And Atrocity (Modern War Studies) Best Price: $11.22 Rossino recognizes the fact that German plans to destroy Poland went far beyond the... | Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto Best Price: $8.75 After I read the book "Diary of Mary Berg" I was so intrigued that I looked up some of... | There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok Best Price: $8.45 I feel renewed horror that, to this day, Polish and Lithuanian reviewers use this format to try... |