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Tearing the Silence: Being German in America
by Hegi, Ursula
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0684829967
- ISBN 13
- 9780684829968
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
USA: Simon & Schuster, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good + Condition. Ursula Hegi explores one story of the Holocaust we may not have heard, the legacy of shame and grief that shadows German-born Americans who were small children during or just after World War II. A deeply affecting study written with compassion and understanding, illuminating a history we cannot afford to forget. Binding of black half-cloth with gilt titles, ivory parchment-like paper-wrapped boards, spotless, soundly bound book. Internals as new. Unclipped fine jacket. Jacket photograph courtesy of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt Am Main. 302 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Simon & Schuster, NY 1997.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024650
- Title
- Tearing the Silence: Being German in America
- Author
- Hegi, Ursula
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0684829967
- ISBN 13
- 9780684829968
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- GERMAN AMERICANS; UNITED STATE, ETHNIC RELATIONS; HOLOCAUST (1939-1945); GERMANS, PERSONAL NARRATIVES; CHILDREN, GERMANY; WORLD WAR I I;
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- Biography. Autobiography;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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