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    Abra­ham J. Edelheit

    Abra­ham J. Edel­heit is an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of his­to­ry at Kings­bor­ough Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege (CUNY) and the author, co-author, or edi­tor of eleven books on the Holo­caust, Zion­ism, Jew­ish and Euro­pean his­to­ry, and Mil­i­tary affairs. His most recent pub­li­ca­tion appeared in Armor mag­a­zine, the offi­cial jour­nal of the US Army Armor and Cav­al­ry Command.
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    A His­to­ry of the Holocaust
    Saul S. Friedman
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    The Dic­ta­tors: Hitler’s Ger­many, Stal­in’s Russia
    Richard Overy
    Cover of Eyes of Memory: Photographs from the Archive of Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld
    Visu­al Arts
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    Leni Sonnenfeld
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    Har­vest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule
    Karel C. Berkhoff
    Cover of Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany
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    Hitler’s Pris­ons: Legal Ter­ror in Nazi Germany
    Nikolaus Wachsmann
    Cover of Auschwitz: A New History
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    Auschwitz: A New History
    Laurence Rees
    Cover of The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice in Germany
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    The Mau­thausen Tri­al: Amer­i­can Mil­i­tary Jus­tice in Germany
    Tomaz Jardim
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    Pro­files in Ter­ror: The Guide to Mid­dle East Ter­ror­ist Organizations
    Aaron Mannes
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    Smoke in the Sand: The Jews of Lvov in the War Years, 1939 – 1944
    Eliyahu Yones
    Cover of The Holocaust: A Reader
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    The Holo­caust: A Reader
    Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang, eds.
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    After Day­break: The Lib­er­a­tion of Bergen-Belsen, 1945
    Ben Shephard
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    Auschwitz: A History
    Sybille Steinbacher, trans.
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    The Soci­ety of Ter­ror: Inside the Dachau and Buchen­wald Con­cen­tra­tion Camps
    Paul M. Neurath
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    A Con­cise His­to­ry of the Third Reich
    Wolfgang Benz
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    A His­to­ry of the Jews in the Mod­ern World
    Howard M. Sachar

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