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Crash of the heavens : the remarkable story of Hannah Senesh and the only military mission to rescue Europe's Jews during World War ll / by Century, Douglas,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In the years before World War II, thousands of young Jewish men and women escaped Europe, seeking safety in the British Mandate for Palestine. By 1942, horrifying reports began to spread about ghettos being liquidated, industrialized killing centers in Poland, and a chilling campaign to exterminate Europe's entire Jewish population. When it became clear that the Allies were unwilling to spare any forces from the war effort to save civilians, the Jewish community in Palestine came up with a daring plan. Working with British Military Intelligence, an elite unit of young Jewish paratroopers volunteered to return to Eastern Europe. Once behind enemy lines, they would use their expertise in the local languages and terrain to rescue thousands of downed Allied pilots and escaped POWs who were trapped with no way to communicate -- highly trained airmen desperately needed by the British and American air forces to fly more bombing missions. At the same time, these volunteer commandos would help Jewish civilians escape deportation to Auschwitz and other death camps or take up arms in resistance against the Nazis. Hannah Senesh was one of only three female paratroopers who risked everything to infiltrate occupied Europe. In 1939, at just eighteen years old, Hannah emigrated from Hungary to the British Mandate for Palestine, where she dreamed of being a poet and a schoolteacher. Instead, she became a poet and a paratrooper. Five years after fleeing Europe, Hannah parachuted back into occupied territory as a freedom fighter with the most crucial role in her team: the wireless operator tasked with sending and deciphering top-secret British radio codes. Though captured almost immediately after crossing the border into Hungary, she refused to give up her radio codes or any information about her mission, despite enduring months of horrific torture. Her final act of defiance -- choosing to die before a firing squad rather than beg for clemency -- cemented her legendary status as the "Jewish Joan of Arc." Hannah's legacy lives on today in the widely published diary she'd kept since age thirteen and in her poetry which has inspired generations. Each year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, a short poem Hannah composed on the shores of the Mediterranean in 1942 is sung at ceremonies around the world. Titled "Eli, Eli," or "My God, My God," it has become a modern hymn, taught in schools, sung in synagogues, and printed in thousands of prayer books"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Senesh, Hannah, 1921-1944.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jewish women; Parachute troops; World War, 1939-1945;
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The last boss of Brighton : Boris "Biba" Nayfeld and the rise of the Russian mob in America / by Century, Douglas,author.;
Boris Nayfeld, a.k.a. "Biba," is the last living boss of the old-school Russian mob in America, and he's survived to tell it all. Filled with sex, drugs, and murder, Biba's story is a mind-boggling journey that took him from petty street crime in the USSR to billion-dollar embezzlement in America. Born in Soviet-era Belarus, abandoned by his parents in infancy, Biba's brutal upbringing left him hungry for more--more power, control, and money. Taking advantage of the rampant corruption in the Soviet Union, Biba's teenage hooliganism quickly turned into bolder "black cash" rackets, making him, by Soviet standards, a very rich young man. When authorities took notice and threatened him with "the supreme measure"-- execution by firing squad--he managed to get out of the USSR just in time. Within months of landing in America, his intimidating presence and street smarts quickly made him legendary in the Soviet émigré community of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, and launched him to the top of New York's Russian Jewish mob, one of the world's most inventive, powerful and violent criminal organizations. After decades as a globe-trotting boss, and three stints in U.S. federal prisons he remains unbroken and unrepentant, even as his entire life has unraveled around him. Now seventy-four years old, Biba is a lion in winter. Douglas Century vividly brings the notorious gangster to life in these pages, telling not only his epic journey but also the history of the Russian mob in America.
Subjects: Biographies.; True crime stories.; Nayfeld, Boris.; Organized crime; Russian American criminals;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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The lost Tudor princess : a life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox / by Weir, Alison,1951-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Lennox, Margaret Douglas, Countess of, 1515-1578.;
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Tommy Douglas / by Lam, Vincent.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Douglas, T. C. (Thomas Clement), 1904-1986.; Legislators; Premiers (Canada);
© c2011., Penguin Group (Canada),
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Ice : a memoir of gangster life and redemption-- from South Central to Hollywood / by Ice-T(Musician); Century, Douglas.;
Subjects: Ice-T (Musician); Rap musicians;
© c2011., One World/Ballantine Books,
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Hunting El Chapo : the inside story of the American lawman who captured the world's most-wanted drug lord / by Hogan, Andrew(DEA agent),author.; Century, Douglas,author.;
Subjects: Biographies.; Chapo, 1957-; Hogan, Andrew (DEA agent); Drug dealers; Drug traffic; Fugitives from justice; Cartels;
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Split decision : life stories / by Ice-T(Musician),author.; Spike,1962-author.; Century, Douglas,author.;
"Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling and astonishing memoir of his early life robbing jewelry stores until he found fame and fortune-while a handful of bad choices sent his former crime partner down an incredibly differentpath"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Ice-T (Musician); Spike, 1962-; Gangsters; Rap musicians;
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The island of extraordinary captives : a painter, a poet, an heiress, and a spy in a World War II British internment camp / by Parkin, Simon,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's story was no isolated incident. During Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s, tens of thousands of German and Austrian Jews escaped and found refuge in Britain. Once war broke out in 1939, the nation turned against them, fearing that Nazis had planted spies posing as refugees. Innocent asylum seekers thus were labeled "enemy aliens" and ultimately sentenced to an indefinite period of internment. When Peter arrived at Hutchinson Camp, he found one of history's most astounding prison populations: renowned professors, composers, journalists, and artists. Together, they created a thriving cultural community, complete with art exhibitions, lectures, musical performances, and poetry readings. The artists welcomed Peter as their pupil and forever changed the course of his life. Meanwhile, suspicions grew that a real spy was hiding among them--one connected to a vivacious heiress from Peter's past. Drawing from unpublished first-person accounts and newly declassified documents from the British government, award-winning journalist Simon Parkin tells the story of this unlikely group of internees. The Island of Extraordinary Captives brings history to life in vivid detail, revealing the hidden truth of Britain's grave wartime mistake and showcasing how hope and creativity can flourish in even the darkest of circumstances"--
Subjects: Midgley, Peter, 1921-1991.; Hutchinson Internment Camp (Douglas, Isle of Man); Germans; Jewish refugees; Noncitizens; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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American moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the great space race / by Brinkley, Douglas,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Astronautics; Manned space flight; Space flight to the moon; Astronautics;
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The scorpion's tail / by Preston, Douglas J.,author.; Child, Lincoln,author.;
A sequel to "Old Bones" finds FBI agent Corrie Swanson and Santa Fe archaeologist Nora Kelly investigating the mummified corpse of a long-dead victim who died in agony while holding a mysterious sixteenth-century gold cross.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Archaeologists; Mummies;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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