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Description not available.A memorable autobiography by a teenage tank gunner describes his experiences during World War II, the fear and drama of battle against the Germans, and the horrific depravity of the slave-labor camp his crew discovered at Nordhausen, where the Nazis assembled the V rockets. 50,000 first printing.
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | The Shtetl by Joachim Neugroschel
Description not available.Short novels by Aleichem, Aksenfeld, and Moykher-Sforim, stories by Peretz, Rabbi Nahkman, and Der Nister, religious writings, and Hassidic yarns depict Jewish life in the shtetl from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Reprint. AUTHOR: Joachim Neugroschel
PUBLISHER: Overlook Press, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Hanged at Auschwitz by Sim Kessel, Walter Laquer
Description not available.A French Jew and ex-boxer documents his experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz. AUTHOR: Sim Kessel, Walter Laquer
PUBLISHER: Cooper Square Publishers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Catskill Culture by Phil Brown
A century ago, New Yorkers, hungry for mountain air, good food, and a Jewish environment combined with an American way of leisure, began to develop a resort area unique in the world. By the 1950s, this summer Eden of bungalow colonies, summer camps, and over 900 hotels had attracted over a million people a year. This was the Jewish Catskills of Sullivan and Ulster Counties. Born to a small hotel-owning family who worked for decades in hotels after losing their own, Phil Brown tells a story of the many elements of this magical environment. His own waiter's tales, his mother's culinary exploits as a chef, and his father's jobs as maitre d' and coffee shop operator offer a backdrop to the vital life of Catskills summers. Catskill Culture recounts the life of guests, staff, resort owners, entertainers, and local residents through the author's memories and archival research and the memories of 120 others. The Catskills resorts shaped American Jewish culture, enabling Jews to become more American while at the same time introducing the American public to immigrant Jewish culture. Catskills entertainment provided the nation with a rich supply of comedians, musicians, and singers. Legions of young men and women used the Catskills as a springboard to successful careers and marriages. A decline for the resort area beginning in the 1970s has led to many changes. Today most of the hotels and bungalow colonies are gone or in ruins, while other communities, notably those of the Hasidim, have appeared. The author includes an appendix listing over 900 hotels he has been able to document and invites readers to contact him with additional entries. AUTHOR: Phil Brown
PUBLISHER: Temple University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Plutonium Files by Eileen Welsome
Based on Welsome's Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper articles, this probing work of investigative journalism illuminates clandestine medical experiments during the Cold War, and includes detailed and often disturbing portraits of the scientists and their unwitting patients. AUTHOR: Eileen Welsome
PUBLISHER: Dell Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Seeds of Fire by Gordon Thomas
In June, 1989, the dragon's teeth, China's armed forces, devoured the nation's voice of conscience in an event that lasted fifty-five days. That event was the massacre of the students in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The most complete book on the Tiananmen Square tragedy to date, Contains FBI, CIA & other documents never before publicly disclosed. AUTHOR: Gordon Thomas
PUBLISHER: Dandelion Books, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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