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CITIZEN 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America by Debbie Cenziper

CITIZEN 865 by the Washington Post investigative journalist Debbie Cenziper (Hachette Books; 9780316449656, $28) is the powerful, character-driven story of the search for the men of an obscure SS training camp in Trawniki, Poland who helped the SS murder 1.7 million Polish Jews. The Office of Special Investigations (OSI), a small unit in a far-flung office inside the Department of Justice, would identify more than a dozen men who were hiding in plain sight in cities and suburbs across America, including Miami, Chicago, and New York.

Cenziper interviewed many of the unheralded and heroic government historians and lawyers – including former director of the Office of Special Investigations Eli Rosenbaum and historians Peter Black and Elizabeth “Barry” White – who relentlessly pursued these so-called “Trawniki Men” and, nearly five decades after the war’s end, helped uncover the details behind the school for mass murder where they were trained, armed and empowered by the Third Reich. She juxtaposes this hunt with the story of 2 of only 200 Jews from Lublin, Poland who evaded this same killing force and settled in the United States unknowingly alongside their former captors, and whose children contributed to Cenziper’s research. It is “a story about darkness, but also about light,” Cenziper writes.

The book has received great media attention. Here are some highlights:

The Washington Post

Washington Independent Review of Books

Forward.com

The Jewish Exponent

The Times of Israel

The Jewish Book Council

Too Jewish Radio Podcast

Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Citizen 865, Debbie Cenziper, Holocaust, Investigative journalism, nonfiction

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Marilyn Dahl/Shelf Awareness discusses Debra Monroe’s writer’s life

Marilyn Dahl, Book Editor at Shelf Awareness, recently sat down with Debra Monroe to discuss her new memoir, MY UNSENTIMENTAL EDUCATION (University of Georgia Press/Crux Series; October 1, 2015). In this enlightening interview, which is posted in today’s Shelf Awareness, Debra touches upon a few of the topics that make MY UNSENTIMENTAL EDUCATION such an engrossing read. Boyfriends, careers, feminism, parenting — Debra discusses how these particular elements inform her writer’s life.

You can catch the entire interview here:

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Filed Under: Books, Memoir, Reviews & Features Tagged With: Debra Monroe, feminism, memoirs, My Unsentimental Education, nonfiction, Shelf-Awareness

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Salvatore Basile’s book COOL hits Library Journal bestseller list at #7

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Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything by Salvatore Basile A Library Journal bestselling book

We’ve been big “fans” of Salvatore Basile’s delightful social history on the birth of the air conditioner for some time now. Really! We rate it right up there with Devil in the White City, The Pencil by Henry Petroski, and Salt by Mark Kurlansky.

Well, it seems we’re not alone in our enthusiasm for this quirky book. Library Journal just released their 2015 bestseller list for engineering and technology titles, and COOL: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything is sitting pretty at #7. Congrats, Sal!

You can check out the entire list here: Library Journal 2015 Engineering & Technology Bestsellers

 

Filed Under: Books, Reviews & Features, Uncategorized Tagged With: air conditioning, bestseller, books, cool, engineering, Fordham University Press, Library Journal, nonfiction, Salvatore Basile, social history, technology

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