Creator: Michael Mitchell
Publication date: 2008-06-20
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.81
Review The Himmler Brothers: A German Family History / Macmillan:
Creator: Elena Lappin
Publication date: 2007-06-14
RRP: £16.99
Price: £1.23
Review The Diary of Petr Ginz / Atlantic Books:
Publication date: 2008-06-12
RRP: £18.99
Price: £8.20
Review My Father's Roses: One Family, Two Wars, Three Generations Divided by Fate and Bound Through Love / Hodder & Stoughton General:
Creator: Archibald Colquhoun
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1998-09-30
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £16.50
Price: £6.27
Review The Sergeant in the Snow / Northwestern University Press,U.S.:
Creator: P. A. Brooke
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1989-11-23
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.98
Review Un Sac De Billes (Twentieth Century Texts) (Twentieth Century Texts) / Routledge:
Edition: 25Anniversary Ed
Publication date: 1920-01-01
Dewey code: 940.53150392
Price: £4.03
Review Night / Bantam USA:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-09-16
Price: £6.99
Review Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews / Coronet Books:The terrible tale of the Holocaust is mitigated in some tiny part by a few stories of grace and heroism; of these moments of reprieve, the story of Oscar Schindler is perhaps the best known. The inaction of foreign bureaucracies scared of offending Germany and precipitating conflict is well-known; less famous are the details of how many German Jews were procured exit visas and did survive. Frank Foley was the British passport officer in Berlin, and would have none of the nonsense of his superiors; he endlessly bent the rules and found pretexts for getting people out. This was all the more remarkable because he was also running a major intelligence operation, acquiring details of most of Germany's military research and development that were eventually crucial to Allied victory. The double bluff whereby he concealed his spying operations through known and active hostility to the regime was both ingenious and let him do what he was morally drawn to. Foley also had a crucial role in frustrating various schemes of the Stalinist Comintern, acquiring double agents who, for example, prevented a pro-Russian coup in Brazil. Foley-The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews is a fascinating story, efficiently rather than memorably told. -Roz Kavaney.
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1995-11-21
Dewey code: 940.53180922
RRP: £20.00
Price: £12.83
Review Maus: v. 1 & 2: A Survivor's Tale - My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began: v. 1 & 2 / Random House Inc:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2006-01-31
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.95
Price: £6.95
Review Facing the Lion / Grammaton Press:
Publication date: 2008-10-14
Dewey code: 823.914
Price: £16.81
Review Searching for Schindler: A Memoir / Nan A. Talese:
Authors
- Rian Verhoeven
- Ruud Van Der Rol
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1995-03-30
Dewey code: 940.5318092
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.50
Review Anne Frank Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance / Puffin:
Publication date: 2000-09-19
Dewey code: 150.195092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.00
Review Recollections: An Autobiography / Perseus Books,U.S.:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-05-06
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.09
Review I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41: I Shall Bear Witness, 1933-41 Vol 1 / Phoenix:
Authors
- Reinhard Piechocki
- Melissa Muller
Dewey code: 786.2092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.43
Review A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer / Pan Books:
Publication date: 2001-04
Dewey code: 940.5318092
RRP: £2.61
Price: £0.08
Review The Story of Anne Frank (DK Readers: Level 3) / DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley):
Publication date: 2008-06-02
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.63
Review Journey to Nowhere: One Woman Looks for the Promised Land / Granta Books:
Edition: Definitive Ed
Publication date: 1997-02-06
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £20.00
Price: £4.50
Review The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition / Viking:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-12-31
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.49
Review The Pianist (Film Tie-in edition): The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 / Phoenix:The last live broadcast on Polish Radio, on September 23, 1939, was Chopin's Nocturne in C# Minor, played by a young pianist named Wladyslaw Szpilman, until his playing was interrupted by German shelling. It was the same piece and the same pianist, when broadcasting resumed six years later. The Pianist is Szpilman's account of the years inbetween, of the death and cruelty inflicted on the Jews of Warsaw and on Warsaw itself, related with a dispassionate restraint borne of shock. Szpilman, now 88, has not looked at his description since he wrote it in 1946 (the same time as Primo Levi's If This Is A Man?; it is too personally painful. The rest of us have no such excuse. Szpilman's family were deported to Treblinka, where they were exterminated; he survived only because a music-loving policeman recognised him. This was only the first in a series of fatefully lucky escapes that littered his life as he hid among the rubble and corpses of the Warsaw Ghetto, growing thinner and hungrier, yet condemned to live. Ironically it was a German officer, Wilm Hosenfeld, who saved Szpilman's life by bringing food and an eiderdown to the derelict ruin where he discovered him. Hosenfeld died seven years later in a Stalingrad labour camp, but portions of his diary, reprinted here, tell of his outraged incomprehension of the madness and evil he witnessed, thereby establishing an effective counterpoint to ground the nightmarish vision of the pianist in a desperate reality. Szpilman originally published his account in Poland in 1946, but it was almost immediately withdrawn by Stalin's Polish minions as it unashamedly described collaborations by Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Poles and Jews with the Nazis. [+]In 1997 it was published in Germany after Szpilman's son found it on his father's bookcase. This admirably robust translation by Anthea Bell is the first in the English language. There were 3,500,000 Jews in Poland before the Nazi occupation; after it there were 240,000. Wladyslaw Szpilman's extraordinary account of his own miraculous survival offers a voice across the years for the faceless millions who lost their lives. -David Vincent.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-01-25
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.18
Review Spectator in Hell: A British Soldier's Extraordinary Story of Imprisonment in Auschwitz / Summersdale Publishers:
Creator: Susan Massotty
Edition: The definitive ed
Publication date: 2000-03-30
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.99
Review The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition (Penguin Modern Classics) / Penguin Classics:
| Models & Brands:
The Himmler Brothers: A German Family History, The Diary of Petr Ginz, My Father's Roses: One Family, Two Wars, Three Generations Divided by Fate and Bound Through Love, The Sergeant in the Snow, Un Sac De Billes (Twentieth Century Texts) (Twentieth Century Texts), Night, Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews, Maus: v. 1 & 2: A Survivor's Tale - My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began: v. 1 & 2, Facing the Lion, Searching for Schindler: A Memoir, Anne Frank Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance, Recollections: An Autobiography, I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41: I Shall Bear Witness, 1933-41 Vol 1, A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, The Story of Anne Frank (DK Readers: Level 3), Journey to Nowhere: One Woman Looks for the Promised Land, The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition, The Pianist (Film Tie-in edition): The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45, Spectator in Hell: A British Soldier's Extraordinary Story of Imprisonment in Auschwitz, The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition (Penguin Modern Classics) |
