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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction and the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. The idea that the West would have come to dominate the rest would have struck you as wildly fanciful.
Author
Series
The Tattooist of Auschwitz volume 2
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
Based on the heart-breaking true story of Cilka Klein, Cilka's Journey is the sequel to the internationally No.1 bestselling phenomenon, The Tattooist of Auschwitz In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly...
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Language
English
Description
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency-a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest...
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