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Come with Me from Lebanon: An American Family Odyssey (Revised)
ISBN: 9780815604341 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of Ann Zwicker Kerr's life in Lebanon and the events that led to her husband's assassination. She describes the situation in the Middle East from the perspective of an outsider who has come to know the region intimately and passionately.
The story of Ann Zwicker Kerr's life in Lebanon and the events that led to her husband's assassination. She describes the situation in the Middle East...
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76,88 |
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Airplanes, Women, and Song: Memoirs of a Fighter Ace, Test Pilot, and Adventurer
ISBN: 9780815605454 / Angielski / Twarda / 2995 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sergeivsky dictated this lively and personal memoir in 1934 when he and Charles Lindbergh were about to set eight world records in a giant Pan American Clipper. It also details many exciting and historic events of his life from his time as a Russian infantry fighter to his worldwide pioneering flights.
Sergeivsky dictated this lively and personal memoir in 1934 when he and Charles Lindbergh were about to set eight world records in a giant Pan America...
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122,40 |
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Fastest Kid on the Block: The Marty Glickman Story
ISBN: 9780815605744 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The legendary voice of the New York Knicks, Giants, and Jets writes also of his years as a Syracuse football star and a track Olympian who was denied his chance to compete in the 1936 Olympics due to anti-Semitism in Berlin, where he was dropped from the 400 metre relay team.
The legendary voice of the New York Knicks, Giants, and Jets writes also of his years as a Syracuse football star and a track Olympian who was denied ...
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76,88 |
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Survival: The Story of a Sixteen-Year Old Jewish Boy
ISBN: 9780815605805 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The personal story of a teenage boy in the concentration camps of the Holocaust. It begins with his deportation in 1942 to the Belgium concentration camp of Breendonk at the age of 16 and follows his movements through a series of camps until 1945, concluding with the Auschwitz death march and his return to Belgium.
The personal story of a teenage boy in the concentration camps of the Holocaust. It begins with his deportation in 1942 to the Belgium concentration c...
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115,42 |
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Nightmares: Memoirs of the Years of Horror Under Nazi Rule in Europe, 1939-1945
ISBN: 9780815607069 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When World War II erupted in Europe, Konrad Charmatz was a prospering businessman in Sosnowiec, Poland, a loving son, and an aspiring poet. For the next seven years he witnessed the Holocaust as it destroyed his family, his country and his culture. In this study of suffering and survival, he gives his own personal account of the Warsaw ghetto, the death chambers at Auschwitz, the transport trains, the slave labour camps of Dachau, and the liberation. And from the perspective of the renowned journalist he later became, he also describes how the Holocaust was carried out, not only at the level...
When World War II erupted in Europe, Konrad Charmatz was a prospering businessman in Sosnowiec, Poland, a loving son, and an aspiring poet. For the ne...
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96,15 |
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Three Homelands: Memories of a Jewish Life in Poland, Israel, and America
ISBN: 9780815607342 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Compelling recollections of a Jewish boy in a prewar Polish village, of his incredible scramble to survive the Holocaust, and of his adventures in America. Told with the inimitable flair of a born storyteller, these stories recall the lost world of small-town Polish Jewry before the Holocaust and the subsequent odyssey of one boy's struggle to stay alive in the face of catastrophe. Brimming with the authenticity and humanity of personal experience, these memoirs are at once persuasive, moving, and universal in appeal. Packed with rarely divulged details of daily life during the Holocaust, the...
Compelling recollections of a Jewish boy in a prewar Polish village, of his incredible scramble to survive the Holocaust, and of his adventures in Ame...
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153,95 |
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New Dawn: A Triumph of Life After the Holocaust
ISBN: 9780815607359 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of how three young Polish Jewish women attempt to resurrect their lives in the bitter aftermath of World War II. After years in a concentration camp, their search for freedom bears fruit in the promise of a Jewish homeland. But pioneering Israel means new hardships.
The story of how three young Polish Jewish women attempt to resurrect their lives in the bitter aftermath of World War II. After years in a concentrat...
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76,88 |
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My War: A Memoir of a Survivor of the Holocaust
ISBN: 9780815607540 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A unique personal account of Jewish life in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust and of a young man's determination to prevail in the face of utter catastrophe. In this unusual memoir, Edward Stankiewicz stirringly recalls his youth as a Polish Jew beginning with prewar Warsaw through to the Nazi invasion. Life on the run lands Stankiewicz in Soviet-occupied. Lwow where in time he joins the Lwow Literary Club. A friend of Jewish, Yiddish, Polish, and Soviet poets and writers, he offers rare insights into wartime Eastern European intellectual life. After the German occupation of Lwow, in the...
A unique personal account of Jewish life in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust and of a young man's determination to prevail in the face of utter cat...
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115,42 |
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A Rose Blooms Again: A Survivor's Story
ISBN: 9780815607694 / Angielski / Twarda / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rothschild was born in Poland in 1925, and has lived in the U.S. since 1946. In this memoir, she recounts her experiences as a child in Poland before the war, and her life during the war in the Jewish ghettoes, in the internment camps, and in the death camp Bergen-Bergen, where her twin sister was a
Rothschild was born in Poland in 1925, and has lived in the U.S. since 1946. In this memoir, she recounts her experiences as a child in Poland before ...
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96,15 |
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Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano
ISBN: 9780815608233 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Harry Haft was a sixteen-year-old Polish Jew when he entered a concentration camp in 1944. Forced to fight other Jews in bare-knuckle bouts for the perverse entertainment of SS officers, Harry quickly learned that his own survival depended on his ability to fight and win. Haft details the inhumanity of the "sport" in which he must perform in brutal contests for the officers. Ultimately escaping the camp, Haft's experience left...
Alan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and u...
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96,15 |
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The Warriors: My Life as a Jewish Soviet Partisan
ISBN: 9780815608394 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A first-hand account that gives special attention to the author's experience among pre-dominantly non-Jewish partisans in Soviet Russia, where he confronted anti-Semitism while facing a common enemy. In this candid memoir, Harold Zissman examines Jewish existence in prewar and wartime Poland. Born into an observant family, he begins by recalling his youth in the Polish town of Ostrow-Mazowieck, near the German border. It is the 1930s, a time of childhood nostalgia darkened by ominous anti-Semitic uprisings and government indifference. In lean and concise prose, Zissman relives the German...
A first-hand account that gives special attention to the author's experience among pre-dominantly non-Jewish partisans in Soviet Russia, where he conf...
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78,32 |
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Does the Land Remember Me?: A Memoir of Palestine
ISBN: 9780815608622 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Summoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Palestine reclaimed by Israelis and to a country no longer that of his youth in a nation whose estate has been challenged by history. This gripping book chronicles that month-long journey. Summoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Palesti... |
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83,21 |
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Four Letters to the Witnesses of My Childhood
ISBN: 9780815608691 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The evocation of memory is wrought with emotional and historical significance in this distinctive Holocaust memoir. With lyrical prose and remarkable candor, Helena Ganor narrates her story through a series of recently penned letters to the significant people in her life during her wartime girlhood: her sister, mother, father, and stepmother. Both Ganor's mother and sister perished during the Holocaust. The author's letters reveal much about living in pre-war Lvov, Poland, and its surrounding area. Her descriptions of relationships between local Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, and Gypsies in...
The evocation of memory is wrought with emotional and historical significance in this distinctive Holocaust memoir. With lyrical prose and remarkable ...
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76,88 |
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A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
ISBN: 9780815624912 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1758, fifteen-year-old Mary Jemison and her family were captured near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by a Shawnee and French raiding party. Shortly thereafter, her family was killed; she was turned over to a Seneca family, adopted by them, and four years later taken to their western New York homeland--where, by choice, she spent the rest of her life as an Iroquois wife, mother, and landed proprietor.
In 1758, fifteen-year-old Mary Jemison and her family were captured near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by a Shawnee and French raiding party. Shortly ther...
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63,62 |
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Making Big Money in 1600: The Life and Times of Isma'il Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant
ISBN: 9780815627494 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text examines the re-emergence of the economic sector in Cairo during the 17th century, and its complex influences on social conditions. It traces the relationship between economic activities and culture through examining the life and work of Isma'il Abu Taqiyya - an Egyptian merchant.
This text examines the re-emergence of the economic sector in Cairo during the 17th century, and its complex influences on social conditions. It trace...
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186,11 |
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Making Big Money in 1600: The Life and Times of Isma'il Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant
ISBN: 9780815627630 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text examines the re-emergence of the economic sector in Cairo during the 17th century, and its complex influences on social conditions. It traces the relationship between economic activities and culture through examining the life and work of Isma'il Abu Taqiyya - an Egyptian merchant.
This text examines the re-emergence of the economic sector in Cairo during the 17th century, and its complex influences on social conditions. It trace...
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78,32 |
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Abolition's Axe: Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black Freedom Struggle
ISBN: 9780815630227 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chronicling the career of Beriah Green (1795-1874), theologian, educator, reformer and one of Now York's most important abolitionists, this book is a history of Green and his attempt to create a model biracial society.
Chronicling the career of Beriah Green (1795-1874), theologian, educator, reformer and one of Now York's most important abolitionists, this book is a ...
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78,32 |
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John Redmond and Irish Unity, 1912-1918
ISBN: 9780815630432 / Angielski / Twarda / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Redmond was one of the most influential leaders of Irish nationalism. A classic tragic hero, Redmond displayed more integrity than his fellow contemporary Irish leaders. He was a sophisticated intellectual with an open mind but was plagued by a fatal flaw - his unreasonable optimism. Redmond's trust in British politicians, especially his Liberal allies, led him and Ireland to the events that probably had the most impact on Irish history since the Great Famine of the 1840s - his active support for Great Britain in the first World War. It severely damaged Anglo-Irish relations for three...
John Redmond was one of the most influential leaders of Irish nationalism. A classic tragic hero, Redmond displayed more integrity than his fellow con...
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83,21 |
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A Journey Through the Cold War: A Memoir of Containment and Coexistence
ISBN: 9780815701019 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this memoir, Ambassador Raymond Garthoff paints a dynamic diplomatic history of the Cold War, tracing the life of the conflict from the vantage point of an observant insider who, during a 40-year career, participated in some of the most important policymaking of the 20th century.
In this memoir, Ambassador Raymond Garthoff paints a dynamic diplomatic history of the Cold War, tracing the life of the conflict from the vantage poi...
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97,90 |
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Nine Months is a Year at Baboquivari School
ISBN: 9780816500673 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of the widely acclaimed Woman in Levi s, this colorful autobiography follows a year in the lives of the lone woman rancher, her students, and their families in 1930s rural Southern Arizona.
" From the author of the widely acclaimed Woman in Levi s, this colorful autobiography follows a year in the lives of the lone woman rancher, her...
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102,81 |
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