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The Victim's Fortune: Inside the Epic Battle Over the Debts of the Holocaust
Authers, John & Richard Wolffe
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Perennial / HarperCollins
2003 ISBN: 0060936878 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Fifty years after World War II, a small group of Americans launched a campaign to confront the world with the fact that many assets looted by the Nazis had never been returned to their owners...John Authers and Richard Wolffe offer a spellbinding investigative account of this momentous international struggle. HOLOCAUST,JEWS,NAZIS,WORLD WAR II,LAWSUITS Book #6439 |
US$8.00 |
The Mystery of Olga Checkova
Beevor, Anthony
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Viking First American Edition
2004 ISBN: 0670033405 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. There have been many tantalizing rumors about Olga Checkova, the niece of Anton Checkov. She left Russia for Germany and became a film star honored by the Nazis yet secretly worked for Soviet intelligence. NAZI GERMANY,NAZIS,HITLER,ESPIONAGE,SPIES,SPYING,WORLD WAR II,ANTON CHECKOV Book #7593 |
US$15.00 |
In the Name of Sorrow and Hope
Ben Artzi-Pelossof, Noa
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Alfred A. Knopf First American
Edition 1996 ISBN: 0679450793 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "Yitzak Rabin's granddaughter writes about her grandfather, her country and the quest for peace." Illustrated. ISRAEL,MIDDLE EAST Book #1736 |
US$11.50 |
Allies At War: The Bitter Rivalry Among Churchill, Roosevelt, and de Gaulle
Berthon, Simon
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Carroll & Graf First
Edition 2001 ISBN: 0786709499 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The chronicle that for the first time exposes the intrigues and discord the world did not see behind the Allied leaders' united front. WORLD WAR II,FDR,AMERICAN HISTORY,EUROPEAN HISTORY,AMERICAN PRESIDENTS Book #6625 |
US$16.00 |
May-Day: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair
Beschloss, Michael R.
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Harper & Row
1986 ISBN: 0060155655 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. On May 1, 1960, two weeks before a vital summit meeting between President Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev, Francis Gary Powers flew a U-2 spy plane deep into Soviet airspace and was downed. Amazingly, and despite the CIA's assurances, Powers and his incriminating equipment survived and were captured. The confrontation that ensued became one of the pivotal episodes of the Cold War. Illustrated. AMERICAN HISTORY,U.S. HISTORY,RUSSIA,SOVIET UNION,COLD WAR,CIA,ESPIONAGE,U-2,SPY PLANES,FRANCIS GARY POWERS,DWIGHT EISENHOWER,NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV Book #5698 |
US$12.00 |
Brinkley's Beat: People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time
Brinkley, David
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Alfred A. Knopf First Edition
2003 ISBN: 0375406441 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. From one of America's most revered journalists - a richly entertaining roundup of the extraordinary individuals with whom he crossed paths in our nation's capitol and of the events that marked the twentieth century. BIOGRAPHY,MEMOIRS,BROADCAST JOURNALISM, TELEVISION NEWS,WASHINGTON,GOVERNMENT,POLITICS,POLITICIANS,AMERICAN HISTORY Book #6624 |
US$12.00 |
The Diana Chronicles
Brown, Tina
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Doubleday First Edition
2007 ISBN: 9780385517089 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she “the people’s princess”, who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? BRITISH HISTORY,PRINCESS DIANA,ROYAL FAMILY,BRITISH ROYALS Book #7644 |
US$12.00 |
The British Experience 1945-75
Calvocoressi, Peter
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Pantheon First American Edition
1978 ISBN: 0394500679 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Full cloth binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. With an historian's training and a widely traveled journalist's experience, Peter Calvocoressi is a sane, erudite, and witty guide to thirty years of history. ENGLAND,BRITAIN,UNITED KINGDOM,BRITISH HISTORY,EUROPE,EUROPEAN Book #3804 |
US$17.50 |
Power Lines: Two Years on South Africa's Borders
Carter, Jason
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National Geographic First
Printing 2002 ISBN: 0792280121 Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with two tiny, closed corner tears; in a clear protective cover. In this incisive and inspiring memoir of his years as a Peace Corps volunteer, Jason Carter paints a portrait at once heartbraking and hopeful of a beautiful and rich country, its turbulent history, its colorful customs, and the people he came to teach - and ended up being taught by. BIOGRAPHY,MEMOIRS,TRAVEL,PEACE CORPS,SOUTH AFRICA Book #5819 |
US$9.50 |
Memoir of the Bobotes
Cary, Joyce
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Phoenix 2000
ISBN: 1842121022 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A stirring account of war in the Balkans by one of the 20th century's greatest novelists. Illustrated by the author. MEMOIRS,BRITISH WRITERS,BALKANS,BALKAN WAR,BRITISH HISTORY,MILITARY HISTORY,TWENTIETH CENTURY,BRITISH ARMY Book #6310 |
US$8.00 |
PAN AM 103: The Bombing, The Betrayals, and a Bereaved Family's Search for Justice
Cohen, Susan and Daniel
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New American Library First
Printing 2000 ISBN: 0451201655 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. On December 21, 1988, Pan Am flight 103, en route to New York, exploded at 31,000 feet over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people onboard, and 11 people on the ground. Among the victims was Theodora Cohen, twenty-year-old daughter of Susan and Daniel Cohen... This is the story of their eleven-year struggle to learn the truth about Theo's murder and to bring to justice those who were responsible. Illustrated. LOCKERBIE,TERRORISM,AIRLINE DISASTERS,AIRPLANE,CRASHES,AIRPLANE BOMBINGS Book #5703 |
US$10.00 |
Gehlen: Spy of the Century
Cookridge, E.H.
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Random House First American
Edition 1972 ISBN: 0394473132 Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Handsome cloth binding with gilt lettering. Creasing, wrinkling and small spots of some pages. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with creases, tears and chips; in a clear protective cover. Illustrated. The biography of a Master Spy. COLD WAR,ESPIONAGE,NAZIS,WORLD WAR II Book #1473 |
US$10.00 |
Mask of Treachery
Costello, John
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William Morrow First Edition
1988 ISBN: 0688044832 Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book has small, gentle corner creasing of a few leaves. It is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The First Documented Dossier on Anthony Blunt's Cambridge Spy Ring. SPYS,ESPIONAGE,ENGLAND,SOVIET UNION,COLD WAR Book #2325 |
US$19.50 |
The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin
DeJonge, Alex
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Coward, McCann and Geoghegan
First Edition 1982 ISBN: 0698111362 Very Good Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Small bottom-edge remainder stamp - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ with slight wear; in a clear protective cover. An engrossing account of the enigmatic Russian holy man who penetrated the very highest circles of the Romanov dynasty in its last days. Illustrated. BIOGRAPHY,RUSSIA,RUSSIAN HISTORY,RUSSIAN REVOLUTION,BOLSHEVIKS,RUSSIAN TSARS,CZARS,CZAR NICHOLAS,ALEXANDRA,ST. PETERSBURG Book #5343 |
US$11.00 |
Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the Gulag
Dolgun, Alexander with Patrick Watson
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Alfred A. Knopf 1975
ISBN: 0394494970 Fine Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge wear with several very small, closed tears; in a clear protective cover. Alexander Dolgun, an American, tells the harrowing story of his confinement in the Soviet Gulag from 1948 to 1956. SOVIET GULAG,POLITICAL PRISONERS,RUSSIA,STALIN,MGB,KGB Book #6549 |
US$10.00 |
The Life of Lenin
Fischer, Louis
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Harper & Row First
Edition 1964 ISBN: 1299280870 Very Good Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Previous owner's name and address written on front free endpaper-else Fine. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ with edge wear with several small, closed tears and chips; now in a clear protective cover. Few people were better qualified to write a major life of the father of the Soviet system than Louis Fischer. Since his first visit to Russia in 1922, when he met Lenin and watched that country in the throes of revolution, Louis Fischer was an indefatigueable student of Soviet affairs. The Life of Lenin is a brilliant contribution to our understanding of the twentieth century and the revolution which he was largely responsible for. RUSSIA,SOVIET UNION,COMMUNISM,MARX,MARXISM,RUSSIAN REVOLUTION,BOLSHEVIKS,BOLSHIVIKI Book #4864 |
US$12.50 |
In the Shadow of the Reich
Frank, Niklas
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Alfred A. Knopf First American
Edition 1991 ISBN: 0394583450 Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Bottom edge remainder dot - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A letter from a son to his father - Hans Frank, hanged at Nuremberg. Illustrated. NAZIS,NAZI GERMANY,NATIONAL SOCIALISTS,HITLER,HOLOCAUST,WAR CRIMINALS, NUREMBERG TRIALS,WORLD WAR II,POLAND,SS Book #7090 |
US$12.00 |
Eleni
Gage, Nicholas
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Random House Book Club Edition
1982 ISBN: 0394520939 Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.DJ with edge wear and several tiny, closed tears; now in a clear protective cover. The author left his position as a top investigative reporter for the New York Times in 1980 to uncover the story he cared most about - the events surrounding the torture and murder of his mother, when he was age nine, in a Greek mountain village where they lived during a savage civil war. GREECE,GREEK CIVIL WAR,MURDER Book #2887 |
US$17.00 |
A Journey Through Economic Time: A Firsthand View
Galbraith, John Kenneth
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Houghton Mifflin First Edition
1994 ISBN: 0395637511 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Whether he is analyzing the advent of Keynesian theory or the end of colonialism and the emergent Third World, Galbraith epitomizes the hindsight and the vision of one who has been an active and outspoken participant in the world’s economic history. ECONOMICS,WORLD HISTORY,JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES,GREAT DEPRESSION,NEW DEAL, JOHN KENNEDY,RONALD REAGAN Book #7244 |
US$16.00 |
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
Gies, Miep with Alison Leslie Gold
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Simon and Schuster Book Club
Edition 1987 ISBN: 0671547712 Fine Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild corner wear and a very small, closed tear; now nicely held in a clear protective cover. Miep's relationship with the Franks began when she came to work for Anne's father in 1933, shortly after he emigrated from Germany to Amsterdam to escape the Nazis. Illustrated. HOLOCAUST,NAZIS,GESTAPO,NAZI GERMANY,AMSTERDAM,HOLLAND,DEATH CAMPS,CONCENTRATION CAMPS,LAGER,AUSCHWITZ,JEWS,FINAL SOLUTION Book #4350 |
US$9.00 |
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah
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Vintage 1997 ISBN: 0679772685 Near Fine Trade Paperback . A price written small on one endpaper. Mild edge wear and a very small bottom edge spot. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. An extensively documented study which "...provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans." NAZIS,ANTISEMITISM,JEWRY,DEATH CAMPS,CONCENTRATION CAMPS,JEWISH QUESTION,FINAL SOLUTION,GENOCIDE,HOLOCAUST Book #2162 |
US$12.50 |
