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AUTHERS, JOHN & RICHARD WOLFFE  The Victim's Fortune: Inside the Epic Battle Over the Debts of the Holocaust
Perennial / HarperCollins . Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Fifty years after World War II, a small group of Americans launched a campaign to confront the world with the fact that many assets looted by the Nazis had never been returned to their owners...John Authers and Richard Wolffe offer a spellbinding investigative account of this momentous international struggle. ISBN: 0060936878
USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 | £UK 5 | JP¥ 706] Book number: 6439
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BEEVOR, ANTHONY  The Mystery of Olga Checkova
Viking First American Edition . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. There have been many tantalizing rumors about Olga Checkova, the niece of Anton Checkov. She left Russia for Germany and became a film star honored by the Nazis yet secretly worked for Soviet intelligence. ISBN: 0670033405
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 7593
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BEN ARTZI-PELOSSOF, NOA  In the Name of Sorrow and Hope
Alfred A. Knopf First American Edition . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "Yitzak Rabin's granddaughter writes about her grandfather, her country and the quest for peace." Illustrated. ISBN: 0679450793
USD 11.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 | £UK 7 | JP¥ 1015] Book number: 1736
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BERTHON, SIMON  Allies At War: The Bitter Rivalry Among Churchill, Roosevelt, and de Gaulle
Carroll & Graf First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The chronicle that for the first time exposes the intrigues and discord the world did not see behind the Allied leaders' united front. ISBN: 0786709499
USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 | £UK 9.75 | JP¥ 1412] Book number: 6625
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BESCHLOSS, MICHAEL R.  May-Day: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair
Harper & Row . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. On May 1, 1960, two weeks before a vital summit meeting between President Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev, Francis Gary Powers flew a U-2 spy plane deep into Soviet airspace and was downed. Amazingly, and despite the CIA's assurances, Powers and his incriminating equipment survived and were captured. The confrontation that ensued became one of the pivotal episodes of the Cold War. Illustrated. ISBN: 0060155655
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 5698
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BRINKLEY, DAVID  Brinkley's Beat: People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time
Alfred A. Knopf First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. From one of America's most revered journalists - a richly entertaining roundup of the extraordinary individuals with whom he crossed paths in our nation's capitol and of the events that marked the twentieth century. ISBN: 0375406441
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 6624
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CALVOCORESSI, PETER  The British Experience 1945-75
Pantheon First American Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Full cloth binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. With an historian's training and a widely traveled journalist's experience, Peter Calvocoressi is a sane, erudite, and witty guide to thirty years of history. ISBN: 0394500679
USD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10.75 | JP¥ 1545] Book number: 3804
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CARTER, JASON  Power Lines: Two Years on South Africa's Borders
National Geographic First Printing . Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with two tiny, closed corner tears; in a clear protective cover. In this incisive and inspiring memoir of his years as a Peace Corps volunteer, Jason Carter paints a portrait at once heartbraking and hopeful of a beautiful and rich country, its turbulent history, its colorful customs, and the people he came to teach - and ended up being taught by. ISBN: 0792280121
USD 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 | £UK 5.75 | JP¥ 838] Book number: 5819
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CARY, JOYCE  Memoir of the Bobotes
Phoenix . Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A stirring account of war in the Balkans by one of the 20th century's greatest novelists. Illustrated by the author. ISBN: 1842121022
USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 | £UK 5 | JP¥ 706] Book number: 6310
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CARY, JOYCE  Memoir of the Bobotes
Phoenix . Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A stirring account of war in the Balkans by one of the 20th century's greatest writers. Illustrated by the author. ISBN: 1842121022
USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 | £UK 5 | JP¥ 706] Book number: 6311
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COHEN, SUSAN AND DANIEL  PAN AM 103: The Bombing, The Betrayals, and a Bereaved Family's Search for Justice
New American Library First Printing . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. On December 21, 1988, Pan Am flight 103, en route to New York, exploded at 31,000 feet over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people onboard, and 11 people on the ground. Among the victims was Theodora Cohen, twenty-year-old daughter of Susan and Daniel Cohen..This is the story of their eleven-year struggle to learn the truth about Theo's murder and to bring to justice those who were responsible. Illustrated. ISBN: 0451201655
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 5703
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COOKRIDGE, E.H.  Gehlen: Spy of the Century
Random House First American Edition . Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Handsome cloth binding with gilt lettering. Creasing, wrinkling and small spots of some pages. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with creases, tears and chips; in a clear protective cover. Illustrated. The biography of a Master Spy. ISBN: 0394473132
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 1473
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COSTELLO, JOHN  Mask of Treachery
William Morrow First Edition . Very Good Hardcover in no Dustjacket. Very slight fading of bottom board edges. Previous owner's library stamp embossed on front endpaper. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. An account of the Cambridge Spy Ring. ISBN: 0792449223
USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 662] Book number: 1298
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COSTELLO, JOHN  Mask of Treachery
William Morrow First Edition . Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book has small, gentle corner creasing of a few leaves. It is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The First Documented Dossier on Anthony Blunt's Cambridge Spy Ring. ISBN: 0688044832
USD 19.50 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 | £UK 11.75 | JP¥ 1721] Book number: 2325
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DEJONGE, ALEX  The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin
Coward, McCann and Geoghegan First Edition . Very Good Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Small bottom-edge remainder stamp - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ with slight wear; in a clear protective cover. An engrossing account of the enigmatic Russian holy man who penetrated the very highest circles of the Romanov dynasty in its last days. Illustrated. ISBN: 0698111362
USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 | £UK 6.75 | JP¥ 971] Book number: 5343
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DOLGUN, ALEXANDER WITH PATRICK WATSON  Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the Gulag
Alfred A. Knopf . Fine Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge wear with several very small, closed tears; in a clear protective cover. Alexander Dolgun, an American, tells the harrowing story of his confinement in the Soviet Gulag from 1948 to 1956. ISBN: 0394494970
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 6549
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FISCHER, LOUIS  The Life of Lenin
Harper & Row First Edition . Very Good Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Previous owner's name and address written on front free endpaper-else Fine. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ with edge wear with several small, closed tears and chips; now in a clear protective cover. Few people were better qualified to write a major life of the father of the Soviet system than Louis Fischer. Since his first visit to Russia in 1922, when he met Lenin and watched that country in the throes of revolution, Louis Fischer was an indefatigueable student of Soviet affairs. The Life of Lenin is a brilliant contribution to our understanding of the twentieth century and the revolution which he was largely responsible for. ISBN: 1299280870
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.75 | JP¥ 1103] Book number: 4864
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FRANK, NIKLAS  In the Shadow of the Reich
Alfred A. Knopf First American Edition . Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Bottom edge remainder dot - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A letter from a son to his father - Hans Frank, hanged at Nuremberg. Illustrated. ISBN: 0394583450
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 7090
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GAGE, NICHOLAS  Eleni
Random House Book Club Edition . Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.DJ with edge wear and several tiny, closed tears; now in a clear protective cover. The author left his position as a top investigative reporter for the New York Times in 1980 to uncover the story he cared most about - the events surrounding the torture and murder of his mother, when he was age nine, in a Greek mountain village where they lived during a savage civil war. ISBN: 0394520939
USD 17.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.5 | £UK 10.25 | JP¥ 1500] Book number: 2887
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GALBRAITH, JOHN KENNETH  A Journey Through Economic Time: A Firsthand View
Houghton Mifflin First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Whether he is analyzing the advent of Keynesian theory or the end of colonialism and the emergent Third World, Galbraith epitomizes the hindsight and the vision of one who has been an active and outspoken participant in the world’s economic history. ISBN: 0395637511
USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 | £UK 9.75 | JP¥ 1412] Book number: 7244
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GIES, MIEP WITH ALISON LESLIE GOLD  Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
Simon and Schuster Book Club Edition . Fine Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild corner wear and a very small, closed tear; now nicely held in a clear protective cover. Miep's relationship with the Franks began when she came to work for Anne's father in 1933, shortly after he emigrated from Germany to Amsterdam to escape the Nazis. Illustrated. ISBN: 0671547712
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 | £UK 5.5 | JP¥ 794] Book number: 4350
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GORBACHEV, MIKHAIL  Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World
Harper & Row First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. ISBN: 0060390859
USD 11.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 | £UK 7 | JP¥ 1015] Book number: 1496
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VAN GRASDORFF, GILLES  Hostage of Beijing: The Abduction of the Panchen Lama
Element . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. In May 1995, six-year-old Gendin Chokyi Nyima was officially recognized by the present Dalai Lama as the eleventh incarnation of the Panchen Lama, Tibet's second most important spiritual leader. A few days later, he and his family were removed from their village by the Chinese authorities, and disappeared from public view. Illustrated with Photos and Maps. ISBN: 1862045615
USD 15.50 [Appr.: EURO 10.5 | £UK 9.5 | JP¥ 1368] Book number: 3767
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GREENE, JOSHUA M. AND SHIVA KUMAR (EDITS.)  Witness: Voices from the Holocaust
Free Press First Edition . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "For the past twenty years, the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University has sought to preserve the human side of this inhuman era by video-taping testimonies from those who lived through the Nazi era, a project that has led to an acclaimed documentary film and this extraordinary book." ISBN: 0684865254
USD 16.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 | £UK 10 | JP¥ 1456] Book number: 4176
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HALBERSTAM, DAVID  The Next Century
William Morrow First Edition . Near Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. A trace of edge spotting. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with slight edge wear; in a clear protective cover. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and veteran journalist considers the recent past, and the possible shape of the twenty-first century. ISBN: 068810391X
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 4493
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