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26.	Aimee & Jaguar : A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer, Edna McCown (Translator)
	Usually ships in 24 hours Alyson Pubns Paperback - 276 pages Reprint edition (October 1998) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$12.95~~ Our Price: $10.36 You Save: $2.59 (20%)	Customer Review
Amazon.com Acclaimed in Germany and England, this tragic and remarkable real-life love story won a Lambda Literary Award when it was first published in America in 1995. Lilly Wust ("Aimée") was a conventional middle-class mother of four, estranged from her philandering husband, when she met Felice... Read more

27.	Beyond Hitler's Grasp : The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria's Jews by Michael Bar-Zohar, Michael Bar Zohar
	Usually ships in 24 hours William Mulvey Hardcover - 288 pages 1 Ed edition Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$24.95~~ Our Price: $17.47 You Save: $7.48 (30%)	Customer Review
Amazon.com During World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews were deported from the Balkan states to labor and extermination camps in Germany and Poland. Bulgaria, with a Jewish population of only 50,000, sided with Hitler's government early on, its king having become convinced that only with German aid could... Read more

28.	Where She Came from : A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History by Helen Epstein
	Usually ships in 24 hours Plume Paperback - 336 pages (November 1998) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$13.95~~ Our Price: $11.16 You Save: $2.79 (20%)	Customer Review
Amazon.com Where She Came From is a remarkable book. In it, author Helen Epstein traces her maternal family history through several generations to its Central European roots, along the way exploring the effects of assimilation, national identity, and the Nazi Holocaust on Jews living in the Czech lands of... Read more

29.	Tearing the Silence : Being German in America by Ursula Hegi
	Usually ships in 24 hours Touchstone Books Paperback - 304 pages Reprint edition (July 1998) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$13.00~~ Our Price: $10.40 You Save: $2.60 (20%)	Customer Review
Amazon.com Ursula Hegi grew up in Germany and moved to the United States at age 18. As she grew older and raised a family, questions about her roots and her native land haunted her until, at last, she felt compelled to write about them. Tearing the Silence brings together her interviews with dozens of... Read more

30.	The Night Trilogy : Night Dawn the Accident by Elie Wiesel
	Usually ships in 24 hours Noonday Pr Paperback Reissue edition (December 1994) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$12.00~~ Our Price: $9.60 You Save: $2.40 (20%)	Customer Review
[email protected] from birmingham, alabama , June 8, 1999 excellent this book is filled with profound thoughts and insights that let one know what the horrible concentration camps were like and how one changes after experiencing them. this book also tells how one's past molds the future and what life is after such horror and death. it is a great book that everyone... Read more

31.	See picture	Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp by Israel Gutman(Editor), et al
		Usually ships in 24 hours Indiana Univ Pr Paperback - 660 pages Reprint edition (May 1998) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$24.95~~ Our Price: $19.96 You Save: $4.99 (20%)
Amazon.com Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, edited by Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, is probably the most comprehensive volume on Auschwitz in print. Essays by leading scholars from Europe, Israel, and the United States document the history of the camp, the technology and magnitude of the genocide... Read more

32.	See picture	Maus (Boxed Set) by Art Spiegelman
		Publisher Out Of Stock Pantheon Books Hardcover Boxed edition (December 1991) Click here for more info	Customer Review
Book Description Volumes I and II in hardcover together in this special boxed edition. Read more

33.	See picture	The Reawakening by Primo Levi
		Usually ships in 24 hours Collier Books Paperback Reprint edition (July 1996) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$12.00~~ Our Price: $9.60 You Save: $2.40 (20%)	Customer Review
Jack O'Brien ([email protected]) from Nashville, Tennessee , June 6, 1999 Another excellent account of Primo Levi the observer. Primo Levi again shows the magic of his writing in this tale of the purgatory he experienced after his liberation from Auschwitz. His memories of the people he meets along the way and the way he describes them are amazing, whether you hate them or love them they all seem ... human, something one... Read more

34.	See picture	A Little Matter of Genocide : Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present by Ward Churchill
		Usually ships in 24 hours City Lights Books Paperback - 240 pages (January 1998) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$14.95~~ Our Price: $11.96 You Save: $2.99 (20%)	Customer Review
[email protected] from Denver, Colorado , August 20, 1999 An incomparable volume. Funny thing. The earlier reviewer who alleged that Ward Churchill "has changed tribes several times" forgot to mention where, or what tribes he's supposedly claimed. I've got copies of things he's published and interviews he's given all the way back to 1969, and can find no evidence that... Read more

35.	See picture	Man's Search for Meaning : An Introduction to Logotherapy by Viktor Emil Frankl, Gordon W. Allport (Designer)
		Usually ships in 24 hours Beacon Pr Hardcover - 196 pages 4th edition (September 1992) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$20.00~~ Our Price: $14.00 You Save: $6.00 (30%)	Customer Review
PAUL from CONNECTICUT , October 12, 1999 A PROFOUND REFLECTION OF ONE'S LIFE PROBABLY THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ. CHOOSE TO READ THIS BOOK. YOU WILL LOOK AT YOUR LIFE DIFFERENTLY---THIS BOOK WILL TOUCH YOU. Read more

36.	See picture	Anne Frank Remembered : The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family by Miep Gies, Alison Leslie Gold (Contributor)
		Usually ships in 24 hours Simon & Schuster (Paper) Paperback (May 1988) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$13.00~~ Our Price: $10.40 You Save: $2.60 (20%)	Customer Review
Synopsis The true story behind Anne Frank's days in hiding from the Nazis during World War II brings a fresh perspective and deeper poignancy to The Diary of a Young Girl. A CBS prime-time TV movie airing the first week in April entitled "The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank." 42 photos. Read more

37.	The Language of Silence : West German Literature and the Holocaust by Ernestine Schlant
	Usually ships in 24 hours Routledge Paperback - 288 pages (February 1999) Click here for more info	Our Price: $20.99	Customer Review
Time, R.Z. Sheppard Schlant boldly puts a society's literature on the couch, but her underlying meaning is also strong: only individuals are capable of feeling grief and the release that comes with mourning the loss of innocence. Read more

38.	See picture	The Abandonment of the Jews : America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman(Afterword), Elie Wiesel (Introduction)
		Usually ships in 24 hours New Press Paperback (April 1998) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$18.95~~ Our Price: $15.16 You Save: $3.79 (20%)	Customer Review
Amazon.com It has long been alleged that officials in the Roosevelt administration knew, in surprising detail, about Adolf Hitler's plans to exterminate all the Jews in Nazi Europe--and that these officials did little to prevent the massacre, refusing asylum to shiploads of Jewish refugees and failing to order... Read more

39.	See picture	Etty Hillesum : An Interruped Life the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork by Etty Hillesum, Eva Hoffman (Introduction)
		Usually ships in 24 hours Henry Holt (Paper) Paperback (November 1996) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$16.95~~ Our Price: $13.56 You Save: $3.39 (20%)	Customer Review
NRL from St. Paul, Minnesota , October 12, 1999 Etty is a spiritual role model This book is filled with some of the deepest most meaningful words I have ever read. Etty begins her diaries "struggling for true inner freedom" (p. 55) She achieves this. She turns inward to her faith at a time when thing around her are in total despair. She is a role model for others. In... Read more

40.	See picture	The Boys : The Untold Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors by Martin Gilbert
		Usually ships in 24 hours Owl Books Paperback - 528 pages Reprint edition (September 1998) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$16.95~~ Our Price: $13.56 You Save: $3.39 (20%)	Customer Review
Amazon.com Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other Nazi death camps were places of death--not only of the body, but also of the spirit, for the German captors sought to rob their prisoners of their very humanity through routine torture and terrorism. Only a fraction of those who entered the camps survived to bear... Read more

41.	See picture	Preempting the Holocaust by Lawrence L. Langer
		Usually ships in 24 hours Yale Univ Pr Hardcover - 224 pages (October 1998) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$22.50~~ Our Price: $15.75 You Save: $6.75 (30%)
Amazon.com Lawrence Langer is the world's preeminent critic of holocaust literature. His Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award in Criticism, is considered by many to be the best, most unflinching account of Jewish oral histories of the holocaust. ... Read more

42.	See picture	Children in the Holocaust and World War II : Their Secret Diaries by Laurel Holliday(Editor)
		Usually ships in 24 hours Washington Square Pr Paperback (June 1996) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$14.00~~ Our Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%)	Customer Review
Synopsis An anthology of diaries written by children ages ten through eighteen in Nazi-occupied Europe presents a testament to youth experiences in the ghettos and death camps of Hungary and Poland and the bombed-out streets of London. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this... Read more

43.	Auschwitz : True Tales from a Grotesque Land by Sara Nomberg-Przuytyk, et al
	Usually ships in 24 hours Univ of North Carolina Pr Paperback (August 1986) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$14.95~~ Our Price: $11.96 You Save: $2.99 (20%)	Customer Review
A reader from franklin, pa, usa , August 5, 1999 It was so moving I literally read it four times. The way Nomberg-Przytyk captured the horror, sadness, courage, and extreme endourance which she and her fellow friends and prisioners displayed was extremely moving. The way she expressed her shock, horror, compassion, and sheer humanity is amazing. Showing how it was impossible to hide and focused... Read more

44.	See picture	The Theory and Practice of Hell : The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them by Eugen Kogon
		Usually ships in 2-3 days Berkley Pub Group Paperback - 333 pages Reprint edition (July 1998) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$13.95~~ Our Price: $11.16 You Save: $2.79 (20%)	Customer Review
[email protected] from Düsseldorf, Germany , September 24, 1999 horrifying This is the most horrifying book I've ever read. The individual acts of violence portrayed in the book are bad enough. The fact that they are all true is worse. However what sets this book apart from other stories of mass murderers is that all the murderers (SS-men, Kapos, etc.) are all part of one... Read more

45.	See picture	Between Dignity and Despair : Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (Studies in Jewish History) by Marion A. Kaplan
		Usually ships in 24 hours Oxford Univ Pr (Trade) Hardcover - 288 pages (May 1998) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Our Price: $21.00 You Save: $9.00 (30%)	Customer Review
Amazon.com As the old saying goes, hindsight is always 20-20; people looking back on the Holocaust and the events leading up to it often wonder why the Jews didn't flee Nazi Germany or why they put up with the prejudice and degradation inflicted upon them by the Nazis. From our perspective, 50 years later, it... Read more

46.	See picture	The Holocaust : A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War by Martin Gilbert
		Usually ships in 24 hours Henry Holt (Paper) Paperback Reprint edition (May 1987) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$19.95~~ Our Price: $15.96 You Save: $3.99 (20%)	Customer Review
Amazon.com A compelling book on an ugly subject, The Holocaust may be the finest book available for those who want a general understanding of how the rise of the Nazis in Germany impacted the Jewish people--as well as those who want to learn exactly what was at stake in the Second World War. When The Holocaust... Read more

47.	See picture	A Nation on Trial : The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth by Norman G. Finkelstein, Ruth Bettina Birn
		Usually ships in 24 hours Owl Books Paperback - 176 pages 1 Ed edition (April 1998) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$12.95~~ Our Price: $10.36 You Save: $2.59 (20%)	Customer Review
Amazon.com Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners was one of the most acclaimed nonfiction books of 1996 ... in the mainstream press, that is. Some historians who specialize in World War II-era Germany and the Holocaust have had considerably less kind things to say about Goldhagen's hypothesis... Read more

48.	See picture	Children of the Holocaust : Conversations With Sons and Daughters of Survivors by Helen Epstein
		Usually ships in 24 hours Penguin USA (Paper) Paperback - 355 pages Reprint edition (October 1988) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$13.95~~ Our Price: $11.16 You Save: $2.79 (20%)	Customer Review
[email protected] from Britain , October 12, 1999 A fascinating story of real life written from the heart. This book really had me hooked from the very beginning; it is beautifully written straight from the heart. This book explains the truth but in a very readable format. Read more

49.	See picture	Escape from Sobibor by Richard Rashke
		Usually ships in 24 hours Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) Paperback - 391 pages Reprint edition (August 1995) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$16.95~~ Our Price: $13.56 You Save: $3.39 (20%)	Customer Review
Synopsis Poignant in its honesty and grim in details, Escape from Sobibor provides a vivid account of the biggest escape from a Nazi extermination camp during World War II. "Breathtakingly suspenseful and horrifying at the same time."--Publishers Weekly. Read more

50.	See picture	The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer
		Usually ships in 24 hours Anchor Books/Doubleday Paperback - 204 pages Reprint edition (August 1992) Click here for more info	List Price: ~~$12.95~~ Our Price: $10.36 You Save: $2.59 (20%)	Customer Review
Book Description The "unwritten" final chapter of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl tells the story of the time between Anne Frank's arrest and her death through the testimony of six Jewish women who survived the hell from which Anne Frank never retumed. --This text refers to the paperback edition of this title Read more

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