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  • UNTIL OUR LAST BREATH: A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance. by Bart, Michael and Laurel Corona.
    Bart, Michael and Laurel Corona.
    UNTIL OUR LAST BREATH: A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Following his fathers death, and with his mother in failing health, Michael Bart embarked on a ten-year research project to find out more details about his parents time in the Vilna ghetto, where they met, fell in love, and married, and about their activities as members of the Jewish resistance. . . . Shortly before the total liquidation of the ghetto, Zenia and Leizer, along with about 120 members of the underground, were able to escape to the Rudnicki forest, about 25 miles away. They became part of the Jewish partisan fighting group led by Abba Kovnerknown as the Avengerswhich carried out sabotage missions against the Nazi army…

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    New York: St Martin's, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Following his fathers death, and with his mother in failing health, Michael Bart embarked on a ten-year research project to find out more details about his parents time in the Vilna ghetto, where they met, fell in love, and married, and about their activities as members of the Jewish resistance. . . . Shortly before the total liquidation of the ghetto, Zenia and Leizer, along with about 120 members of the underground, were able to escape to the Rudnicki forest, about 25 miles away. They became part of the Jewish partisan fighting group led by Abba Kovnerknown as the Avengerswhich carried out sabotage missions against the Nazi army and eventually participated in the liberation of Vilna." SIGNED on the front endpaper by co-author Laurel Corona and dated in the year of publication. Photographs, notes, bibliography. xxviii, 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0312378073.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 76403
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  • THE ISSA VALLEY. by Milosz, Czeslaw
    Milosz, Czeslaw
    THE ISSA VALLEY.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Sidgwick & Jackson, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in Polish in 1955, this translation by Louis Iribarne is the first English language appearance (shortly after he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980.). " 'The valley of the Issa has the distinction of being inhabited by an unusually large number of devils.' So begins the author's description of his child protagonist's Lithuanian countryside." 288 pp. ISBN: 0-283-987626.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 53708
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