The twentieth-anniversary edition of Marion Blumenthal Lazan s acclaimed Holocaust memoir features new material by the author, a reading group guide, a map, and additional photographs. The writing is direct, devastating, with no rhetoric or exploitation. The truth is in what s said and in what is left ...
"'The Smythson cirle' is the absorbing story stretching from 1541 to 1614, charting the creation of the first Renaissance buildings in England. David N. Durant, author of the acclaimed 'Bess of Hardwick', describes how Longleat, Chatsworth, Wollaton Hall, Old and New Hardwick Halls and Bolsover Castle ...