WWII
| author: George Clare | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 2002, c1980 | publisher: London : Pan | | content type: book | | description: On Saturday 26 February, 1938, seventeen-year-old Georg Klaar took his girlfriend Lisl to the first ball at the Konzerthaus. His family were proudly Austrian. They were also Jewish. Just two weeks later came the Anschluss. A family had been condemned to death by genocide.
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| author: Michael Chabon | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 2005 | publisher: London : Harper Perennial | | content type: book | | description: It is New York City in 1939. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat to date: smuggling himself out of Nazi-occupied Prague. He is looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn's own Sammy Clay, is looking for a collaborator to create the heroes, stories and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book. Out of their fantasies, fears and dreams, Joe and Sammy weave the legend of that unforgettable champion the Escapist.
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