Anne Frank Remembered |
Gies, Gould ISBN: 0671662341 The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family. The reminiscences of Miep Gies, the woman who hid the Frank family in Amsterdam during the Second World War, presents a vivid story of life under Nazi occupation. |
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Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943 |
Etty Hillesum, Arnold Pomerans ISBN: 0802839592 Commissioned by the Etty Hillesum Foundation, "Etty" is the only complete, unabridged edition of the letters and diaries of a singular hero - and victim - of the Nazi Holocaust. This fascinating, profound, and often moving body of work reveals...(read more) |
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Lust for Life |
Irving Stone ISBN: 0099416425 A biography of Van Gogh. No artist has been more ruthlessly driven by his creative urge, nor more isolated by it from most ordinary sources of human happiness, than Vincent Van Gogh. A painter of genius, his life was an incessant struggle against...(read more) |
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Silvie |
Silvia Grohs-Martin ISBN: 1566492408 In 1940, 21-year-old actress Silvia Grohs-Martin was a star at one of Europe's most historic theatres. Then, one day in autumn 1942, the theatre was converted overnight into a deportation centre for Dutch Jews, and Silvia and her fellow theatre workers...(read more) |
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The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition |
Anne Frank (Puffin) ISBN: 0141315180 Anne Frank's diary is among the most enduring documents of the 20th century. She documented her life in hiding from 12 June 1942 to 1 August 1944. Initially, she wrote it strictly for herself. Then, one day in 1944, Gerrit Bolkestein, a member of the...(read more) |
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The Ever Open Eye: Operation Market Garden |
Brian Wilson ISBN: 190476231X The British Troops massing at the beginning of Operation Market Garden on September 17th 1944 were ready to face the foe. The fact that the Operation proved a failure should not be laid at their door. A subaltern with the Irish Guards in North- West...(read more) |
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The Frank Family That Survived |
Gordon Sander ISBN: 0099443295 The inspiring story of a German-Jewish family named Frank which, like Anne Frank's family and 25,000 other Dutch and other 'stateless' Jews, 'dived under' in Nazi-occupied Holland in 1942 - but miraculously survived. Told by the grandson of the head of...(read more) |
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The Letters |
Vincent Van Gogh, Arnold Pomerans (Translator) ISBN: 0140446745 A selection of Van Gogh's letters translated from the French and the Dutch and edited by the director of Amsterdam's Van Gogh museum. (Penguin...(read more) |
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Vincent Van Gogh: Sunflowers and Swirly Stars |
Joan Holub ISBN: 0448425211 Sorry - no summary available. |
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