Two for the Devil, Allen Hoffman
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Two for the Devil, Allen Hoffman
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Two for the Devil
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Allen Hoffman
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Small worlds
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Two novellas that trace the fate of Jews displaced from a Polish village in World War II. One man becomes a colonel in the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, another is deported to the Warsaw ghetto from where he is sent to a Nazi death campThis searing third novel in the critically acclaimed Small Worlds series records the cruel fate of the villagers of Krimsk as they encounter the twentieth-century's greatest agents of evil, Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler. It is Rosh Hashanah -- the Jewish New Year and Day of Judgment -- in Moscow during the Stalinist purges of 1936. In the Lubyanka secret police prison, senior investigator Grisha Shwartzman masterfully pursues the rigorous logic and obsessive legalism of the Soviet witch-hunt. Facing an extraordinary prisoner, Grisha realizes that the Soviet system he has faithfully served is m
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