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Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay Publisher Comments Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a 10-year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel dHiv roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity by Primo Levi Publisher Comments In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and Italian citizen of Jewish race, was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl Publisher Comments When Beacon Press first published Man's Search for Meaning in 1959, Carl Rogers called it "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years." In the thirty-three years since then, this book — at once a memoir, a... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L Shirer Publisher Comments Hailed as “one of the most important works of history of our time” (The New York Times), this definitive chronicle of Hitlers rise to power is back in hardcover with a new introductory essay by Ron Rosenbaum (Explaining Hitler and How the End... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Man's Search for Meaning: by Viktor E. Frankl Publisher Comments Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy by Robert D Putnam Publisher Comments Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Art From the Ashes : a Holocaust Anthology (95 Edition) by Lawrence L. Langer Publisher Comments Art from the Ashes provides the most far-reaching collection of art, drama, poetry, and prose about the Holocaust ever presented in a single volume. Through the works of men and women, Jews and non-Jews, this anthology offers a vision of the human... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price: $49.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Publisher Comments Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Shawl (Vintage International) by Cynthia Ozick Publisher Comments A devastating vision of the Holocaust and the unfillable emptiness it left in the lives of those who passed through it.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Revolutions 1789-1917 (Cambridge Perspectives in History) by Allan Todd Publisher Comments Allan Todd provides a lucid exploration of the main features of revolutions: the economic, social, political and ideological developments prior to the revolution, and the roles and actions of crowds, parties, women and counter-revolutionaries. Particular... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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French Revolution and Human Rights (96 Edition) by Lynn Hunt Publisher Comments This brief documentary history includes 38 documents that explore the issue of rights and citizenship in Revolutionary France and the movement that helped define modern notions of civil rights.... (read more) List Price $19.20 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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World of Late Antiquity : A.D. 150-750 (71 Edition) by Peter Brown Publisher Comments These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for all time. By 476 the Russian empire had vanished from western Europe; by 655 the Persian empire had vanished from the Near... (read more) List Price $23.65 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Histories (98 Edition) by Herodotus Publisher Comments "The father of history," as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed in the classics. Compelled by his desire to "prevent the... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Vikings and Their Origins by David M Wilson Publisher Comments This book is intended not only to portray an image of the Vikings but to show something of the culture of the Scandinavian countries in which they were settled in the four centuries before they burst on the European scene.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rising Sun : Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire (70 Edition) by John Toland Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [883]-904) and index.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ghosts of Berlin : Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape (97 Edition) by Brian Ladd Publisher Comments In this compelling work, Brian Ladd examines the ongoing conflicts radiating from the remarkable fusion of architecture, history, and national identity in Berlin. Ladd surveys the urban landscape, excavating its ruins, contemplating its buildings and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay Publisher Comments First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure by Donald Kladstrup Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-273).... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Reawakening: The Companion Volume to Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi Publisher Comments First published in English in 1965, The Reawakening is Primo Levi's bestselling sequel to his classic memoir of the Holocaust, Survival in Auschwitz. The inspiring story of Levi's liberation from the German death camp in January 1945 by the Red Army, it... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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France Restored : Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 (98 Edition) by William I. Hitchcock Publisher Comments A valuable contribution to the University of North Carolina Press's 'New Cold War History' series. American Historical Review A fine example of the new Cold War history that aims at transcending a purely US-Soviet framework. Choice [A] solidly researched... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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