Category: History Publisher: Viking
ISBN-10: 0143125893
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 400
Copyright: October 2013
ISBN-13: 9780670025473
Price: $13.00 (eBook)
The epic story of the three branches of my mother's family.
The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the 20th Century tells the epic story of the Jewish 20th century by tracing three branches of one family: those who came to the US and started two successful businesses (including the Maidenform Bra Company), those who went to Palestine as idealistic pioneers and participated in the birth of the State of Israel, those who remained behind in Europe and perished in the Holocaust. Based on original family letters, memoirs, and interviews, The Family reads like a novel but it all true and deeply researc hed.
This is the story of the author’s great great grandparents, Edward Lewis and Sarah Crosby, who were convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s. It is told from the perspective of a detective agency searching for what happened to Edward, w
If you think you know Delaware, think again. Pirates? Quakers fighting with Pennsylvania? Towns so ugly no one would settle there? With stunning pictures and straightforward storytelling, Dave Tabler opens hidden passages and describes defining momen
