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"In London, 1939, Ada Vaughan is a young woman with an unusual dressmaking skill, and dreams of a better life for herself. That life seems to arrive when Stanislaus, an Austrian aristocrat, sweeps Ada off her feet and brings her to Paris. When war breaks out, Stanislaus vanishes, and Ada is taken prisoner by the Germans, she must do everything she can to survive: by becoming dressmaker to the Nazi wives. Abandoned and alone as war rages, the choices...
2) Where the birds never sing: the true story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the liberation of Dachau
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c2003
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Recounts the experiences of a World War II American GI who served with Patton's famed 3rd Army on the forefront of the Allied push through France and Germany and at the site of the Dachau concentration camp.
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[2007]
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"In May 1941, Father Jean Bernard was arrested for denouncing the Nazis and sent to Dachau's "Priest Block," a barracks that housed more than 3,000 clergymen of various denominations (the vast majority Roman Catholic priests). Priestblock 25487 tells the gripping true story of his survival amid inhuman brutality, degradation and torture."--BOOK JACKET.