Chil Rajchman a Polish Jew was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 & sent to Treblinka a death camp where more than 750 000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas chambers but Rajchman escaped execution working for ten months under incessant threats & beatings as a barber a clothes-sorter a corpse-carrier a puller of teeth from those same bodies. In August 1943 there was an uprising at the camp & Rajchman was among the handful of men who managed to escape. In 1945 he set down this account a plain unembellished & exact record of the raw horror he endured every day. This unique testimony which has remained in the sole possession of his family ever since has never before been published in English. For its description of unspeakably cruelty Treblinka is a memoir that will not be superseded. In addition to Rajchman's account this volume

Includes:: the complete text of Vasily Grossman's ' The Hell of Treblinka' one of the first descriptions of a Nazi extermination camp; a powerful & harrowing piece of journalism written only weeks after the camp was dissolved. Introduction by Samuel Moyn Professor of History at Columbia University & author of A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France.

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More than 800 000 people entered Treblinka & fewer than seventy came out. Some have argued fewer were murdered but the evidence for such an unbelievable figure is strong. Hershl Sperling was one who escaped. Why then fifty years later did he jump to his death from a bridge in Scotland? The answer lies in a long-forgotten published account of the Treblinka death camp written by Hershl Sperling himself in the months after liberation & discovered in his briefcase after his suicide. It is reproduced here for the first time. In Treblinka Survivor Journalist & author Mark S. Smith traces the life of a man who survived seven camps & what he had to do to achieve this. Hershls story
- which takes the reader through his childhood in a small Polish town to that bridge is testament to the lasting torment of those very few who survived the Nazis most efficient death factory. The author personally follows in his subjects footsteps from Klobuck to Treblinka to Glasgow.
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The Nolans lived in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn from 1902 until 1919. Their daughter Francie & their son Neely knew more than their fair share of the privations & suffering that were the lot of New York's poor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the story of Francie an imaginative alert resourceful child & of her family. ...

William & his brother are desperate to have a tree house in the grand old tree at the bottom of the garden. Their father has to go away but is determined that the tree house should be built. So every month he sends a parcel home to the boys
- a parcel containing things theyll need for the tree house. But will their father be home in time for Christmas
- in time to join them in the tree house to eat the chestnuts that are growing there.. . Gillian Cross has won many major awards including the Carnegie Medal the Smarties Prize & the Whitbread Award.

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In the temple of Abydos an acacia tree is dying. Its death threatens all of Egypt. For this tree sprang forth from the tomb of the god Osiris the first ruler of Egypt as proof of his triumph over death. The great pharaoh Senusret III immediately joins battle against the invisible enemy who would lead Egypt to her doom. But within his closest circle hides a traitor a man who would sell himself to the powers of darkness in order to achieve his dreams of glory. A young apprentice scribe Iker becomes an unwilling player in this mystery. Kidnapped by sailors who refer darkly to a 'state secret' Iker does not know who is trying to kill him nor indeed who is trying to protect him. He senses only that someone is manipulating him that he has set out on a road whose end he does not know. Will the two of them Iker & Senusret the weak young boy & the great man of power succeed in preventing Osiris from dying for the last time thereby saving Egypt? ...

Stan Parker with only a horse & a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared & a rudimentary house built he brings his wife Amy to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy & sorrow as they struggle against the environment. ...

Stephen Gately brought joy to many millions of fans throughout the world. In the months before his tragic death he wrote this his first novel The Tree of Seasons. When Josh Michael & Beth Lotts catch sight of some mysterious lights one summers evening they are drawn into a dense forest near their home where no one dares ever go. What they find there is incredible. The Tree of Seasons is a doorway into another world. There are four kingdoms in this world each forever stuck in spring summer autumn & winter & each with its own ruler. The tree & the world it conceals have existed for hundreds of years & have never been uncovered by anyone until now. The Lotts find that peace has been shattered in this magical world. One ruler who bears a remarkable resemblance to their aunt is intent on power at all costs. She causes destruction & suffering that threaten to tear worlds apart. Josh Michael & Beth have arrived just in time to take part in the battle that the other three kingdoms have to fight in order to survive. The Tree of Seasons is a beautiful story of good & evil & a vividly imagined portrait of a world beyond our own. ...

Enjoyable pronunciation practice of English sounds word stress & intonation for beginner-level students. Now in full colour & with updated artwork this revised edition of Tree or Three? retains its simplicity & straightforward syllabus. The emphasis on minimal pairs which made the original edition so popular makes pronunciation practice light-hearted & accessible. * Clear rubrics for exercises with answer key & enhanced navigation make the material even more user-friendly. * Each unit offers comprehensive practice of sounds with additional work on stress & intonation. * The accompanying audio CDs give lots of listening & pronunciation practice. This pack contains the second edition of Tree or Three? & a set of 3 audio CDs. ...

Stanley Wells is an ordinary boy who happens to be quite curious. His friends are the mysterious Dr. Moon & his canine companion Morcambe. Together they seem to stumble upon strange happenings & trip over mysteries that just need solving... Stanley is sleeping in the caravan at the bottom of the garden of his new house. He awakes at the sound of an odd whooooomphing noise & goes to investigate. There appear to be new trees in the garden...very odd. & now his mum & the twins are missing
- could these things be connected. & what about Jim the old man who lives in the woods with his parrot telling tales of the sea? Could he be involved somehow. Dr Moon is the only person who can help Stanley with this puzzle & luckily hes on his way...
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