The concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was the site of the single largest mass murder in history. Over one million mainly Jewish men women & children were murdered in its gas chambers. Countless more died as a result of disease & starvation. Auschwitz Death Camp is a chilling pictorial record of this infamous establishment. Using some 250 photographs together with detailed captions & accompanying text it describes how Auschwitz evolved from a brutal labour camp at the beginning of the war into what was literally a factory of death. The images how people lived worked & died at Auschwitz. The book covers the men who conceived & constructed this killing machine & how the camp provided a vast labour pool for various industrial complexes erected in the vicinity. Auschwitz Death Camp is shocking proof of the magnitude of horror inflicted by the Nazis on innocent men women & children. Such evil should not be forgotten lest it re-appear. ...

In the winter of 1991 at a concert in Krakow an older woman with a marvelously pitched violin meets a fellow musician who is instantly captivated by her instrument. When he asks her how she obtained it she reveals the remarkable story behind its origin... Imprisoned at Auschwitz the notorious concentration camp Daniel feels his humanity slipping away. Treasured memories of the young woman he loved & the prayers that once lingered on his lips become hazier with each passing day. Then a visit from a mysterious stranger changes everything as Daniel's former identity as a crafter of fine violins is revealed to all. The camp's two most dangerous men use this information to make a cruel wager: If Daniel can build a successful violin within a certain number of days the Kommandant wins a case of the finest burgundy. If not the camp doctor a torturer gets hold of Daniel. & so battling exhaustion Daniel tries to recapture his lost art knowing all too well the likely cost of failure. Written with lyrical simplicity & haunting beauty-and interspersed with chilling actual Nazi documentation
- The Auschwitz Violin" is more than just a novel: it is a testament to the strength of the human spirit & the power of beauty art & hope to triumph over the darkest adversity."
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When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944 they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew & a medical doctor Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous " Angel of Death": Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengeles personal research pathologist. Miraculously he survived to give this terrifying & sobering account of the terror of Auschwitz. This new Penguin " Modern Classics" edition contains an introduction by Richard Evans." ...

We're all feeling poor. Our wages mightn't have risen for a long time but taxes food heating clothes pets driving kids booze leaving the house
- & paying for the privilege of living there
- certainly have. Life costs more
- but that doesn't mean it has to become rubbish. No need for a hairshirt or holiday-less year: treats can stay on the agenda. This book contains so many money-saving ideas & tips that together they'll knock thousands off the cost of living. It's less shiver-me-timbers-I-can't-afford-the-heating more ten easy tips to slash your heating bill by a third. We're poor but we don't need to be bored or boring. This book lays out how to save it
- so you can squeeze more value out of your hard-earned cash.



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Australians pride themselves on being easy-going & informal. Their vocabulary with its colour humour & inventiveness reflects these qualities. This thoroughly entertaining Aussie Slang Dictionary will help you decipher & speak the true Aussie language. Full of dazzling definitions from true-blue Aussies youll never be lost for words with this collection of colourful sayings. From aerial ping-pong (Australian Rules Football) to on the wrong tram (to be following the wrong train of thought) & finishing up with some verbal diarrhoea (never-ending blather) your mind will be brimming with useful (and not so useful!) sayings for your next run-in with a true Aussie character. & for dinki-di Aussies living in the UK use this book to expand your vocabulary & increase your unique way of communicating. ...

Jane is a young New York woman who can never seem to find the right man-perhaps because of her secret obsession with Mr. Darcy as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. When a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-obsessed women however Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined. Is this total immersion in a fake Austenland enough to make Jane kick the Austen obsession for good or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own? In this addictive charming & compassionate story Shannon Hale brings out the Jane Austen obsessive in all of us. ...

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Includes:: beautiful crochet designs inspired by the world of Jane Austen. Austentatious Crochet"

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There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery & despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming & clever Baudelaire children read on... The Austere Academy": In these chapters the children face snapping crabs strict punishments dripping fungus comprehensive exams violin recitals S.O.R.E. & the metric system." ...

There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery & despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming & clever Baudelaire children read on... The Austere Academy": In these chapters the children face snapping crabs strict punishments dripping fungus comprehensive exams violin recitals S.O.R.E. & the metric system." ...