The remarkable story of the author’s Jewish grandmother, whose bestselling Viennese cookbook was expropriated by the Nazis after the Anschluss in 1938 and republished for decades under a false Aryan name. Her book is carefully researched and has an extraordinary range – from Shanghai in the 1930s to Dachau, Vienna to Lake Windermere, the Kindertransport, the US intelligences services, publishing protocols under the Nuremberg laws, emigration and the creation of new lives in new worlds. Outstanding.
Alice’s Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother’s Cookbook
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Edition:Hardback978152941630512/05/2022From a Bookshelf nearby
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Brought up in North Carolina in the Jim Crow era, AT won a postgraduate scholarship to Brown University, worked at Warhol's Factory and volunteered for Diana Vreeland. He went on to become e... read more
The Chiffon Trenches
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This is the first publication of Hugh Trevor-Roper's private journal of his visit to the People's Republic of China in 1965, shortly before the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution. It also d... read more
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A memoir by the great Hungarian pianist, addressing concerns such as communism and anti-Semitism alongside piano technique and musical interpretation.
Music Comes Out of Silence: A Memoir
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Of the 50,000 Jews who were sent to concentration camps from Salonika, only 2,000 returned. The author is one of them. This manuscript from 1948 is presented by his grandson.