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  • SAVING THE SCHINDLER'S DAUGHTER
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    SAVING THE SCHINDLER'S DAUGHTER
    DOUGLAS BOYD
    Lore Schindler was ten years old when her dentist father Harry was arrested by the Gestapo in Berlin and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. His wife Grete bought his release by giving all their possessions to the Nazi state. Leaving Germany with just 10 Marks each, parents and daughter suffered humiliating strip searches at the border. This was the start of Lore's ordeal...

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  • PLANTAGENET PRINCES
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    PLANTAGENET PRINCES
    DOUGLAS BOYD
    When Count Henry of Anjou and his formidable wife Eleanor of Aquitaine became king and queen of England, they amassed an empire stretching 1,000 miles from the Pyrenees to the Scottish border, including half of France. Henry’s grandmother Empress Mathilda of Germany had taught him that ruling is like falconry: show the hawk the reward, but take it away at the last moment, to ke...

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  • NORMANDY'S NIGHTMARE WAR
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    NORMANDY'S NIGHTMARE WAR
    DOUGLAS BOYD
    The toll that both Nazi occupation and Allied liberation took on this northern French region during World War II, told through eyewitness accounts.   Famous for Calvados apple brandy and Camembert cheese, Normandy is a green and pleasant land now dotted with thousands of British-owned second homes. Its coastline is also dotted with thousands of indestructible reinforced-concret...

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  • PLAGUES AND PANDEMICS
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    PLAGUES AND PANDEMICS
    DOUGLAS BOYD
    All you need for a plague to go pandemic are population clusters and travelers spreading the bacterial or viral pathogens. Many prehistoric civilizations died fast, leaving cities undamaged to mystify archeologists. Plague in Athens killed 30% of the population 430-426 BCE. When Roman Emperor Justinian I caught bubonic plague in 541 CE, contemporary historian Procopius describe...

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  • PLANTAGENET PRINCESSES
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    PLANTAGENET PRINCESSES
    DOUGLAS BOYD
    A look at the royal women of twelfth-century England—from the empowered to the imprisoned—and their roles in the ruling dynasty. Eleanor of Aquitaine and her second husband, Henry II, are commonly considered medieval figures, but their era was really the violent transition from the Dark Ages, when countries’ borders were defined with fire and sword. Henry grabbed the English th...

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  • SAVING THE SCHINDLER'S DAUGHTER
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    SAVING THE SCHINDLER'S DAUGHTER
    DOUGLAS BOYD
    Lore Schindler was ten years old when her dentist father Harry was arrested by the Gestapo in Berlin and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. His wife Grete bought his release by giving all their possessions to the Nazi state. Leaving Germany with just 10 Marks each, parents and daughter suffered humiliating strip searches at the border. This was the start of Lore’s ordeal...

    $216.99

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