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Wartime Notebooks France, 1940-1944
ISBN: HB: 9780300176711, Yale University Press, November 2018
704 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress. When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied Fr...
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£25,00
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Watercolours A Story from Auschwitz
ISBN: PB: 9789385932038, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
300 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm
A Czechoslovakian Jew who was imprisoned at Auschwitz, Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt (1923-2009) was saved by her artistic abilities. Gottliebova painted the walls of the children's barracks with images of the Disney film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves...
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£14,50
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We Wept Without Tears Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz
ISBN: PB: 9780300211979, Yale University Press, July 2014
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau consisted primarily of Jewish prisoners forced by the Germans to facilitate the mass extermination. Though never involved in the killing itself, they were compelled to be "members of staff" of the Nazi death-f...
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£23,00
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With the Red Devils at Arnhem Personal Experiences with the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade 1944
ISBN: PB: 9781907677342, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2012
96 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 photos, 2 maps
The Battle of Arnhem is a much-studied and discussed battle, with an uninterrupted flow of books being published about it. Helion are bringing back into print a fascinating eyewitness account that has remained overlooked since it was last published s...
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£19,00
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When God Looked the Other Way An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption
ISBN: PB: 9780226004440, University of Chicago Press, May 2006
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 3 maps
Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments only recently admitted culpability. S...
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£13,00
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Women and the Nazi East Agents and Witnesses of Germanization
ISBN: HB: 9780300100402, Yale University Press, September 2003
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 maps, 37 illus.
This book examines the role of women in Nazi Germany's "nationality struggle" during the 1930s and in measures to Germanize occupied Poland during World War II. Drawing on previously untapped material from Polish and German archives, as well as memoi...
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£30,00
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