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Tales of Degradation and Despair
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Claus Von Bulow
Football and Facism
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A Conspiracy of Decency: The Rescue of the Danish Jews During World War II
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Carole Angier
Hard to Satisfy
Landscapes of Memory: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
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Carole Angier
Home Is Where the Danger Is
Nine Suitcases
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Scions of the Survivors
After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust
By Eva Hoffman
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The Germs of Genocide
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David Cesarani
Knowing When To Run
Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna
By Peter Singer
The Frank Family That Survived
By Gordon F Sander
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Mark Glanville
Horror Stories
Treblinka: A Survivor’s Memory
By Chil Rajchman (Translated by Solon Beinfeld)
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David Cesarani
Testimony
Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
By Samuel D Kassow
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Richard Overy
The Memory of Suffering
Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past
By Neil Gregor
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Oskar’s Story
Searching for Schindler: A Memoir
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Striped Pyjamas
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M R D Foot
‘War is a Condition, Like Peace’
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
By Nicholson Baker
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David Cesarani
Lethal Indifference
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution
By Ian Kershaw
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‘My Soul Is Scorched’
The Year of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939–1945
By Saul Friedländer
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David Cesarani
Return to Bolechow
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
By Daniel Mendelsohn
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Michael Burleigh
Rent-A-Moralists At Bay
The Myth of Hitler’s Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis
By David G Dalin
Righteous Gentiles: How Pius XII and the Catholic Church Saved Half a Million Jews from the Nazis
By Ronald J Rychlak
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Caroline Moorehead
‘Practising Science in Hell Itself’
After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945
By Ben Shephard
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Manjit Kumar
The Exclusion Principle
The Quantum Exodus: Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust
By Gordon Fraser
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Jonathan Mirsky
Looking Back in Horror
No Escape: My Young Years Under Hitler's Shadow
By W John Koch
In My Brother's Shadow
By Uwe Timm (Translated from the German by Anthea Bell)
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It wasn’t until 1825 that Pepys’s diary became available for the first time. How it was eventually decrypted and published is a story of subterfuge and duplicity.
Kate Loveman tells the tale.
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Of the siblings Gwen and Augustus John, it is Augustus who has commanded most attention from collectors and connoisseurs.
Was he really the finer artist, asks Tanya Harrod, or is it time Gwen emerged from her brother’s shadow?
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