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Books
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Fatherland : A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets€12.99
What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war.
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A Little Girl in Auschwitz : A heart-wrenching true story of survival, hope and love€12.99
Lidia was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother, a member of the partisan resistance from Belarus. The bewildered little girl was picked out by Dr Josef Mengele for his sadistic experiments and sent to the infamous children's block, where every day was a fight for survival.
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The Lighthouse of Stalingrad€13.99
A city under attack. Over two million combatants killed, wounded or captured. This is the story of the fight for Stalingrad - a pivotal battle of the Second World War that set the defeat of Hitler and the demise of the Nazis on its path.
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American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer€15.99
Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation.
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Sabine's War : One Woman. Three Concentration Camps. a Remarkable True Story of Survival€11.99
A transfixing story of survival, Sabine's War captures a remarkable life in the words of the young woman who lived it. An astonishing tale of romance, resistance and bravery
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Berlin : Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century€11.99
Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world.
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Sherman Tank Canadian, New Zealand and South African Armies : Italy, 1943-1945€22.99
The Sherman tank served with most Allied armies during the Second World War and it is justly famous for the role it played in the Normandy landings and the subsequent drive into Germany.
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The Liberation of the Camps : The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath€13.99
A moving, deeply researched account of survivors' experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult years that followed When tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated in 1944 and 1945, the horror of the atrocities came fully to light.
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1941 : Armageddon: The Road to Pearl Harbor€16.99
One of the greatest and most terrible years in world history. 'This war has now assumed the character', wrote Benito Mussolini, before 1941 was six months old, 'of a war between two worlds', and the Italian dictator had rarely predicted more truly.
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In the Midst of Civilized Europe : The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust€16.99
A riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a defining moment of the twentieth century. 'Exhaustive, clearly written, deeply researched' - The Times'A meticulous, original and deeply affecting historical account' - Philippe Sands, author of East West StreetBetween 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.