Sleeping With The Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War

From Eileen Effrat Author:  Hal Vaughan Sleeping  With The Enemy:  Coco Chanel’s Secret War Much has been written about Coco Chanel, but Vaughan’s book covers new ground focusing on her wartime activities in Nazi occupied Paris.  Drawing on newly released American, German, French, and British wartime documents, Vaughn reveals   Chanel as a willing Nazi collaborator [...]

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The Diary of a Young Girl

From Catherine Costanzo author: Frank, Anne  The Diary of a Young Girl A true story as you know — but a classic tale of a young girl and her family as they are “hidden” during world war II.  Anne keeps a diary about their day to day trials and events, and one can see the [...]

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The Invisible Bridge

From Judy Schroback author: Orringer, Julie The Invisible Bridge  This book takes place during World War 2 and follows the lives of several characters.  It specifically focuses on Hungary  and how badly damaged it was during the war.  This author does a great job getting us to feel the characters and their constant conflicts.  While trying [...]

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Maus: A Survivor’s Tale

From Elaine Pasquali author: Spiegelman, Art Maus: A Survivor’s Tale I have read this allegorical book many times.  Spiegelman takes a journey of understanding about the holocaust, and specifically his parents’ holocaust experience, and uses anthropomorphic animal characters to relate this journey.  Because of its comic book style, Maus has been both lauded and vilified.  [...]

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Rice, Men and Barbed Wire

From Marie K. Schulken author: Bocksel, Arnold A.  Rice, Men and Barbed Wire The Author of this book recently passed away, however, he was a member of our Beach Community out in Mattituck.  After reading this wonderful book, I wish I had taken the opportunity to get to know him.  He survived the Bataan Death [...]

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Growing Up

From Helen author: Baker, Russell Growing Up This is an autobiography of the two time Pulitzer Prize winning author, Russel Baker.  Once I started reading this book, I could not put it down.  It is a warm, likable and funny account of growing up in America during the Depression years and World War II.  Very [...]

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Night

From Nicole Marsh author: Wiesel, Elie Night Night, written by Elie Wiesel is an autobiographical account of his life during the Holocaust. The novel is a short read with easy to understand wording.  Wiesel gives a very vivid account of the heinous and unimaginable acts of cruelty committed by the Nazi’s.  It shows the dehumanization [...]

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Imperial Cruise

From Chris Garland author: Bradley, James Imperial Cruise  In 1905, to further the economic and strategic interests of the United States, President Theodore Roosevelt green lit Japanese expansion in Asia without Constitutional or Congressional oversight. In “The Imperial Cruise”, the author asserts that this policy lit the fuse for the Asia/Pacific wars that followed later [...]

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