Irena's Children
A True Story of Courage
$45.27
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
6 June 2017
Summary
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler–the “female Oskar Schindler”–who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.
In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health specialist. While she was there, she began to understand the fate that awa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781476778518 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1476778515 |
| Author: | Tilar J. Mazzeo |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Atria Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 6 June 2017 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Tilar J. Mazzeo
Tilar J. Mazzeo is the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestselling author of books that include The Widow Clicquot, The Secret of Chanel No. 5, and Hotel on the Place Vendôme. She also writes on food and wine for the mainstream press, and her work has appeared in venues such as Food & Wine and in her Back-Lane Wineries guidebook series. Her course on creative nonfiction (Great Courses) is widely distributed and has made her a nationally prominent teacher of writing in nonfiction genres. The Clara C. Piper Associate Professor of English at Colby College, she divides her time among coastal Maine, New York City, and Saanichton, British Columbia, where she lives with her husband and stepchildren.
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