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Ossendowski, Ferdinand, in collaboration with Palen, Lewis StantonBiblio.com

Man and Mystery in Asia

1924réf. 81805London: Edward Arnold 1924. Third Impression. Hardcover. Good. xii 295 1 16 pages Frontis illustration. Map at rear endpaper. Cover has some wear and soiling. Somewhat cocked. Some endpaper discoloration. Some page foxing and discoloration. Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski 27 May 1876 - 3 January 1945 was a Polish writer explorer university professor and anti-Communist political activist. He is best known for his books about Lenin and the Russian Civil War in which he participated. After the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905 Ossendowski moved to Harbin in Manchuria where he founded a Central Technical Research Laboratory a Russian-financed institution for development of the ore deposits in the area. At the same time he headed the local branch of the Russian Geographic Society in Vladivostok. As such he made numerous trips to Korea Sakhalin Ussuri and the shores of the Bering Strait. In Manchuria he also became one of the leaders of the considerable Polish diaspora. At the outbreak of the Russian Civil War he also got involved in the counterrevolutionary Russian government led by Supreme Governor Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak. He served at various posts among others as an intelligence officer an envoy to the intervention corps from the United States and an assistant to the Polish 5th Rifle Division of Maj. Walerian Czuma. In 1918 he was responsible for the transfer of many tsarist and White Russian documents to the Entente. In late 1921 he published his first book in English: Beasts Men and Gods. The description of his travels during the Russian Civil War became a striking success and a bestseller. After the end of the Russian Civil War Ossendowski continued to travel to different parts of the world and after each journey he published a book or two. In the interwar period he was considered the creator of a distinct genre called the traveling novel. With over 70 books published in Poland and translated almost 150 times into 20 other languages Ossendowski was also the second most popular Polish author abroad after Henryk Sienkiewicz. Edward Arnold hardcover

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Venezia, Shlomo, in collaboration with Beatrice PrasquierBiblio.com

Inside the Gas Chambers; Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz

2009réf. 78793Cambridge UK: Polity Press 2009. Presumed First Edition First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xv3 202 4 pages. Illustrations drawings and photographs. Footnotes. Plan of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Foreword by Simone Veil. Note by Beatrice Prasquier. Historical Notes by Marcello Pezzetti Umberto Gentiloni and Jean Mouttapa. Selected Bibliography. Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Shlomo Venezia 1923 - 2012 was a Greek-born Italian Jew. He was a survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Venezia was subjected to the typical procedure of the deported to Auschwitz: shave shower the tattooing of the number on the left forearm wearing the interned uniform. At the end of the procedure Venezia was locked up in a separate and isolated section of the camp in quarantine. After quarantine Venezia was assigned to the Sonderkommando in Birkenau made mainly prisoners in good physical condition because of the physical effort that the job required. Venezia was part of the Sonderkommando for six months. A unique participant's account of everyday death and life inside the engine of the Nazi extermination machine. Although most Sonderkommando members too were systematically killed by the SS fate allowed Shlomo Venezia to survive and bear witness. This is a unique eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. When the Germans invaded the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz. Given the chance to earn a little extra bread he agreed to become a 'Sonderkommando' without realizing what this entailed. He soon found himself a member of the 'special unit' responsible for removing the corpses from the gas chambers and burning their bodies. Dispassionately he details the grim round of daily tasks evokes the terror inspired by the man in charge of the crematoria 'Angel of Death' Otto Moll and recounts the attempts made by some of the prisoners to escape including the revolt of October 1944. Polity Press hardcover

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