| How to Be a Hepburn in a Kardashian World: The Art of Living with Style, Class, and Grace Revised, Update Edition Contributor(s): Christy, Jordan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1478920882 ISBN-13: 9781478920885 Publisher: Hachette Book Group OUR PRICE: $27.00 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Reference | Etiquette |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 5.5" (0.35 lbs) |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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| Publisher Description: In June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family were dropped off at Birkenau-one of the Nazis' largest and deadliest concentration camps. With the nod of an SS official's head, her life was spared. With another nod, her mother was sent to the gas chambers. Freda's survival was a miracle, and her mother's death one of millions caused by an amalgam of violent crimes rooted in fanaticism, bigotry, complacency, and greed. In this sweeping narrative history, Laurence Rees combines rigorous academic research with twenty-five years' worth of heartbreaking testimony to investigate how history's greatest crime was possible. "Bergen-Belsen cannot be described in human language"' says Alice Lok Cahana, who was sent there from Auschwitz. But in a way it can, and the memory and significance of the era echoes through words like Alice's. Packed with never-before-told stories and astute analysis, Rees reveals that what became known as the Holocaust was in fact a series of escalating decisions, made amid a culture of deadly inventiveness, that developed into a worldwide catastrophe. The blame is widespread, Rees reminds us, and the effects are enduring.The Holocaust is the first new, accessible history for thirty years, an authoritative account that offers new judgments on the key decision makers and brings renewed urgency to the Holocaust's role in our collective past and our shared future. |
Contributor Bio(s): Christy, Jordan: - Jordan Christy has been featured everywhere from NBC's Today Show to the London Times. She has spoken to thousands of women across the nation and continues to write books, travel, and blog. For more information, please visit www.jordanchristy.com.Keeble, Jonathan: - Jonathan Keeble combines his audio work with a busy theater and television career. He has been featured in over six hundred radio plays for the BBC, appearing in everything from Shakespeare and Sherlock Holmes to Doctor Who and The Archers, in which he played the evil Owen. As an Earphones Award-winning narrator, he is in high demand for his voice work. He has recorded over two hundred audiobooks. |