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  • WHY MY FATHER DIED: A Daughter Confronts Her Family's Past at the Trial of Klaus Barbie. by Kahn, Annette.
    Kahn, Annette.
    WHY MY FATHER DIED: A Daughter Confronts Her Family's Past at the Trial of Klaus Barbie.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Summit Books, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Kahn was two years old in 1944 when her father, a Jew and a French Resistance fighter, was murdered by Nazi Klaus Barbie, the 'Butcher of Lyon.' "Forty-three years later, as chief political reporter for the magazine Le Point , she was assigned to cover Barbie's trial. Performing a balancing act between the roles of detached journalist and grief-stricken victim's daughter, Kahn skillfully interweaves courtroom drama, testimonies of Holocaust survivors, an account of Barbie's sordid career path and the wrenching story of her parents' ordeal. Her mother, sent to Auschwitz, was rescued, a near-skeleton, at the war's end. . . Kahn provides shocking detail on how U.S. intelligence bureaucrats…

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    New York: Summit Books, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Kahn was two years old in 1944 when her father, a Jew and a French Resistance fighter, was murdered by Nazi Klaus Barbie, the 'Butcher of Lyon.' "Forty-three years later, as chief political reporter for the magazine Le Point , she was assigned to cover Barbie's trial. Performing a balancing act between the roles of detached journalist and grief-stricken victim's daughter, Kahn skillfully interweaves courtroom drama, testimonies of Holocaust survivors, an account of Barbie's sordid career path and the wrenching story of her parents' ordeal. Her mother, sent to Auschwitz, was rescued, a near-skeleton, at the war's end. . . Kahn provides shocking detail on how U.S. intelligence bureaucrats protected Barbie after the war and how the CIA helped him escape to Bolivia in 1951." (Publisher's Weekly) Translated by Anna Cancogni. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-671658832.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83992
    Keywords: History: World, holocaust, resistance fighters, trial, war crimes, world war ii
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  • THE ALIBI. by Kanon, Joseph.
    Kanon, Joseph.
    THE ALIBI.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a story of "revenge love and murder set in post-war Venice." Set in 1946, in a Europe slowly beginning to recover from the ravages of war, where a US Army war crimes investigator has come for a break from the horrors of his work, only to discover that in a seemingly unchanged Venice, everyone was compromised by the Occupation. 405 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-8050-7886x.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 63161
    Keywords: italy, Mysteries: historical, venice, war crimes, world war ii, world war ii fiction
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  • THE ALIBI. by Kanon, Joseph.
    Kanon, Joseph.
    THE ALIBI.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a story of "revenge love and murder set in post-war Venice." Set in 1946, in a Europe slowly beginning to recover from the ravages of war, where a US Army war crimes investigator has come for a break from the horrors of his work, only to discover that in a seemingly unchanged Venice, everyone was compromised by the Occupation. SIGNED on the title page. 405 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-8050-7886x.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 63266
    Keywords: italy, Mysteries: historical, venice, war crimes, world war ii, world war ii fiction
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