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Edgar Feuchtwanger Hitler, My NeighborEdgar Feuchtwanger came from a prominent German-Jewish family—the only son of a respected editor and the nephew of a best-selling author, Lion Feuchtwanger. He was a carefree five-year-old, pampered by his parents and his nanny, when Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, moved into the building opposite theirs in Munich. In 1933 the joy of this untroubled life was shattered. Hitler had been named Chancellor.…
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Catherine Cusset, Teresa Fagan Life of David HockneyA compelling hybrid of novel and biography, Life of David Hockney offers an accessible overview of the painter who shook the world of art with a vitality and freedom that neither heartbreak nor illness nor loss could corrode....
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Julian Borger The Butcher's TrailThe gripping story of how - and against what odds - the perpetrators of Balkan genocide were subjected to the most successful manhunt in history, by the Guardian's Diplomatic editor. Written with a thrilling narrative pull, The Butcher's Trail chronicles the pursuit and capture of the Balkan war criminals indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Borger recounts how…
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Saul Friedländer When Memory Comes: The Later Years ENForty years after his acclaimed, poignant first memoir, Friedländer returns with Where Memory Leads, bridging the gap between the ordeals of his childhood and his present-day towering reputation in the field of Holocaust studies. Friedländer's initial loyalty to Israel turns into a lifelong fascination with Jewish life and history. This memoir led Friedländer to reflect on the events that led him to devote 16 years…
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Mihail Sebastian WomenStefan Valeriu, a young man from Romania who has just completed his medical studies in Paris, spends his vacation in the Alps, where he quickly becomes entangled with three different women. We follow Stefan after his return to ...