Within The Whirlwind

GINZBURG, EUGENIA: Within the Whirlwind. Translated by Ian Boland. Introduction by Heinrich Boll. Collins and Harvill Press. London. 1981

Tall 8vo. In grey hard card covers with gilt to green cloth spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 423pp. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. The second volume of the autobiography of Eugenia (Yevgenia) Ginzburg who spent 20 years in and out of prison after being accused of trying to undermine the Communist regime in Stalin's Russia. Imprisoned as part of the Purges the first time and for an unknown reason the second, she was lucky to survive.

[SW: BIOGRAPHIES/LETTERS/DIARIES EUGENIA GINZBURG, Within, Whirlwind, Ian Boland, Communist regime, Stalin, Russia, Purges,]

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Hill, Grace Livingston. An Unwilling Guest. Bantam, 1/1985.
GLH-65 Bright, glossy cover, clean tight lightly tanning pages. No stamps or stickers. 2 very light spine lines, hinge crease. <P> New York society beauty Evelyn Rutherford reluctantly agreed to spend the summer with her aunt in the tiny village of Hillcroft. Arriving to find that her aunt had taken ill, she prepared herself for a summer of boredom with a neighboring family. But Allison Grey and her brother Maurice, the handsome young doctor, lived in a different world - a world of faith and goodness and quiet happiness. Suddenly the social whirlwind Evelyn had longed for seemed lifeless in comparison. Something new and powerful was beginning to stir deep within her. Yet Maurice was a doctor with a mission, soon bound for China. Would she find the faith and courage within herself to be worthy of his love - before he left her life forever?. 0553247360.

Paperback, Very Good.

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Friedlander, Albert H.. OUT OF THE WHIRLWIND, A READER OF HOLOCAUST LITERATURE .. NY: Union OF American Hebrew Congregations, c. 1968.
Very minor soil and wear on the sound binding. Contents are almost like new. No dust jacket. ; Illustrated ivory cloth binding, HARDCOVER, red lettering. Very stylized illustrations. HISTORY. What passport will gain us entry into hell: recognizing the fact the the world we are bout to enter is utterly alien to the world we know, how can we expand the horizons of our awareness so tat hell and the experience of it become real? Through the entries in this book, you will experience the daily lives of those who lived within the hell that was Nazi Germany, for within them, not only facts but emotions are transmitted. ; 9-1/2"Tall; 536 pages.

Illustrated by Jacob Landau. VG-.

[SW: SHOAH Auschwitz Birkenau Maidanek Treblinka Bergen-belsen Other History,]

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Henderson, Sara. From Strength to Strength. Pan MacMillan Publishers Aus, 1995.
In From Strength to Strength, Sara Henderson tells her life story, from her birth in September of 1936 up through September of 1991, 55 remarkable yea rs later. It's a life worth telling, and worth reading about. And though th e events of Henderson's life are by turns dramatic, tragic, and inspiring, her personality comes through as down-to-earth, straightforward, and sincer e. She could be any one of us, a normal person caught up in a whirlwind of a life that demanded more than she thought she had to give, but who ultimat ely surprised herself and her community with her tenacity and resolve. As the title indicates, Sara sees strength and perseverance as important th emes in her life, and much of her autobiography is spent detailing events t hat helped develop or exhibited those essential characteristics. With four older brothers, she had ample opportunities to learn how to stick up for he rself. Other formative tenacity-building experiences included her short but successful tennis competition career (at 14 she was picked to represent Ne w South Wales in the under-15 schoolgirls team) and the car crash at 19 tha t curtailed her dream of winning Wimbledon. She lay flat on her back for ei ght months while her bones healed, and then confounded the doctors' predict ions by not only learning to walk again but resuming tennis, too. Sara got a job and for a few years lived a sedately rewarding life. Then Charles English Henderson III entered her world, and everything changed. Swept off her feet by his charm, charisma, and attentions, she wed him within the year, and her life became a tempest of romantic champagne and strawberry evenings, . Biography.

Paperback,

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