Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival 1837700443, 9781837700448

If we seal off the past, how will we ever know the truth? In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland, a Jewish child was smuggled

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Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival
1837700443, 9781837700448

The incredible true story of a young girl who navigated dangerous forests, outwitted Nazi soldiers, and survived against

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November 1944. The British government finally agrees to send a brigade of 5,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine to Euro

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Hours after attacking Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Japanese bombers stormed across the Philippine city of Baguio, w

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On Saturday, November 14, 1944, radio listeners heard an enthusiastic broadcast announcer describe something they had ne

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On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spr

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On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spr

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Ian Buruma’s spellbinding account of three near-mythic figures—a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler’s masseur—w

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