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[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1945, the Allies rounded up and interrogated thousands of party officials, war criminals, advocates, and Nazis. These interrogations are a fascinating, largely forgotten part of the historical record. Subjects include Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and minister of Armaments; the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolph Hess; Nazi Doctor Karl Gebhardt; and more. A horrifying portrait of the most evil regime in history.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A true story from beginning to end about the life of a traumatized kid who learned nothing but criminal and ridiculous behavior from inside the walls of his family's fourth generation, 20 Cedar St home. A home which was said to be cursed, has plagued nearly everyone who's lived inside for the past 100 years. Growing up without guidance, he was only capable of learning from his own unfortunate mistakes. After years of death, drugs, violence, gambling...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The powerful story of one Marine who found healing and renewed purpose after returning from combat, for himself and tens of thousands of fellow veterans. When Marine sniper Jake Wood came home in 2009 from grueling tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, his country asked yet more of him: to compartmentalize his traumatic memories, put his elite military training on a shelf, and adjust to living outside high-stakes situations. Jake feared he would join the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In this searing memoir, Iran-born author Rahimeh Andalibian tells the story of her family: their struggle to survive the 1979 revolution, their move to California, and their attempts to acculturate in the face of teenage rebellion, murder, addiction, and new traditions. Andalibian struggles to make sense of two brutal crimes: a rape, solved by her father, and a murder, of which her beloved oldest brother stands accused. She takes us first into her...
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English
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In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved, and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz--a certain death sentence--Fritz refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering...
80) My detachment
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The author reminisces about his life, in a profile of a young man coming of age during the Vietnam war, chronicling his experiences as a former ROTC intelligence officer in command of a group of enlisted men on assignment in Vietnam
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