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Where Memory Has Failed In the Shadow of Death: Living Outside the Gates of Mauthausen By Gordon J. Horwitz Free Press. 288 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Jacob Heilbrunn Contributor,...
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Pity the Poor Patricians The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy By David Cannadine Yale. 813 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Jacob Heilbrunn Contributor, "Commentary," "National...
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THE EXODUS OF SOVIET JEWS-2 Ironic Asylum in East Berlin By Jacob Heilbrunn East Berlin "The Kristallnacht might come at any time" says a young Russian Jew. "I am waiting for it every day."...
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He Wrote as He Pleased Stalin's Apologist: Walter Duranty— The New York Times' Man in Moscow By S.J. Taylor Oxford. 404pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Jacob Heilbrunn Assistant editor, "The...
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HEALEY, DENIS
In the Corridors of Power
(November 2008)
