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The Emperor of Lies
by Sem-Sandberg, Steve
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0571259200
- ISBN 13
- 9780571259205
- Seller
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 2011 9780571259205. Soft cover. First edition. First printing. Fine. Pictorial card cover with flaps. 156 x 235 x 50mm. 664pp. A compelling tale of power, corruption and compromise from one of Scandinavia's most revered authors. In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in Poland, in the city of Lodz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman. Mysterious, ambiguous and monarchical, 'King Chaim' forced adults and children alike to work punishing hours providing supplies for the German military. Thousands of others were transported and never seen again. Was Rumkowski an accessory to the Nazi regime, driven by lust for power, or was he a pragmatic strategist, actively saving Jewish lives through apparent collaboration? Steve Sem-Sandberg draws on genuine chronicles of life in the Lodz ghetto to capture the full panorama of human resilience, and to question the nature of good and evil. .
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2241
- Title
- The Emperor of Lies
- Author
- Sem-Sandberg, Steve
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0571259200
- ISBN 13
- 9780571259205
- Publisher
- London: Faber and Faber, 2011 9780571259205
- This edition first published
- 2011
- Keywords
- Poland Lodz Holocaust Jews Nazis Ghetto Deportations Antisemitism Collaboration QSE
Terms of Sale
David Edward Hellawell
I will refund the cost if the book is returned within 7 days with details of where the description was faulty.
About the Seller
David Edward Hellawell
Biblio member since 2007
Bromsgrove, West Midlands
About David Edward Hellawell
Professor Emeritus now selling off the stock of a lifetime.
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