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Une Goutte de Vie dans l'Amer    by Alain Kleinsinger
Price: $4.90 USD. 21640 words. Language: French. Published on May 5, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

L'histoire vraie d'un enfant insouciant, dans le Paris des années 30, élevé dans l'amour de la France et de ses valeurs républicaines par ses parents immigrés juifs polonais. Brusquement éveillé de son enfance par la guerre, il va découvrir le coté sombre des hommes. Miraculé du camp de Drancy, il assiste, impuissant, au départ de ses parents vers Auschwitz, devient résistant et tente de survivre.
Bitter Freedom: Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor    by Jafa Wallach
Price: $2.99 USD. 53900 words. Language: English. Published by Gihon River Press  on April 13, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Holocaust.

Remarkable first-person story of survival in Nazi occupied Poland. Narrowly escaping the Nazi sweep in Southern Poland, Jafa Wallach and her husband, Natan, a physician, were able to send their four-year-old daughter to safety (they prayed) while they themselves—along with two of Jafa's brothers—managed to dig a shallow hole in the ground beneath the cellar of an heroic Polish mechanic's shop.
Zwischen Weltkrieg und Staatsvertrag    by Josef Thonhauser
Price: $16.99 USD. 46520 words. Language: German. Published by Edition Tirol  on April 7, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Europe / Austria & Hungary.

In diesem Buch geht es nicht um Dichtung, sondern um die Rekonstruktion der als Kind erfahrenen Geschichte. Hier meldet sich ein Autor zu Wort, den seine Kindheitserlebnisse zwischen seinem vierten und zwölften Lebensjahr seit sechzig Jahren beschäftigen.
Eye of the Eagle: The True Story of an American Hero    by Norman Miller
Price: $4.99 USD. 54990 words. Language: English. Published on March 13, 2012. Nonfiction » History » War.

In World War II, most aviation pilots were armed with many weapons. But in the US Air Force reconnaissance squadron, these men flew ongoing missions over enemy lines, photographing enemy targets before and after they were bombed – facing onslaughts of enemy fighters and armed with -- a camera!
The Last Goodbye    by Edith Hofmann
Price: $2.99 USD. 3440 words. Language: English. Published by Memoirs Publishing  on February 11, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Holocaust.

The Last Goodbye is a book of pictures and poems inspired by the author's experiences during World War 2 in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, and as a prisoner at Auschwitz, in the Kristianstadt labour camp in Silesia and finally liberation at Belsen. Dedicated to each of the six million men, women and children who died.
Sala - More than a Survivor    by Marsha Casper Cook
Price: $5.99 USD. 34160 words. Language: English. Published by Fideli Publishing on January 3, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Holocaust.

This is the touching and inspirational story of Sala Lewis, who at age ten was left alone to wander the streets of Poland after her family was taken away by the Nazis. Sala had been out with her friends and came home to find her family gone and the apartment where she lived sealed off. Everything she possessed was no longer hers. She had no family, no clothes, no food, nothing ...
Spirit Over Steel - A Chronology of the Second World War    by John Thompson
Price: $6.99 USD. 177030 words. Language: English. Published on December 17, 2011. Nonfiction » History » War.

The largest, most complex and most destructive war humanity has yet fought, the Second World War escapes easy description. Spirit over Steel is more than just a chronology of the war's main events, it also weaves in hundreds of individual threads into the tapestry of the whole conflict and yet never loses sight of the overall picture.
Ruta's Closet    by Keith Morgan
Price: $12.99 USD. 109160 words. Language: English. Published on December 1, 2011. Nonfiction » History » Holocaust.

Ruta Kron did not share the fate of the more than 200,000 Lithuanian Jews murdered in the Holocaust but lived to tell how courage, love and an indomitable spirit can triumph over evil. The true story of her family's survival will move and inspire readers. Ruta's Closet is written in a fast-paced, fictional style. It's a good read for all and an ideal candidate for Book Club selection.
The Ghosts of Nanking    by Jesse Horn
Price: $2.99 USD. 11050 words. Language: English. Published on October 18, 2011. Nonfiction » History » Holocaust.

A Special Dialogue on the Forgotten Holocaust of WWII featuring interviews with notable authorities with political and academic backgrounds such as Japanese Deputy Press Secretary Yasuhisa Kawamura, Dr. Peter Stanek, Professor and psychotherapist Armand Volkas, Psychologist and Stanford professor Philip Zimbardo, Dr. Steven Novella, Author and producer James Burke, Raymond Tallis and others
Whatever Happened to Raoul Wallenberg    by Morris Wolff
Price: $10.99 USD. 139470 words. Language: English. Published by The Educational Publisher  on June 16, 2011. Nonfiction » History » Holocaust.

This never-before told story reveals Wallenberg's detention by the Russians and relates the legal and diplomatic efforts of the author, Morris Wolff, and others to gain (or impede) his release from the Soviet Union. Playing a role in the saga are such participants as Chief Justice John Roberts, President Richard Nixon, President Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger and Leonid Brezhnev.