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Ravensbrück life and death in Hitler's concentration camp for women

Traces the sobering history of World War II's largest female concentration camp, revealing the torturous experiences and deaths of thousands of women prisoners of more than twenty nationalities.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Helm, Sarah (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2015]
Edition:	First United States edition.
Subjects:	Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Women concentration camp inmates > Germany > Ravensbrück. Women prisoners > Germany > Ravensbrück. World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
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Summary:	Traces the sobering history of World War II's largest female concentration camp, revealing the torturous experiences and deaths of thousands of women prisoners of more than twenty nationalities.
Item Description:	"Published in Great Britain as If this is a woman by London : Little, Brown, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, a Hachette UK Company"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:	xxiv, 743 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 709- 721) and index.
ISBN:	9780385520591 (hardback) 038552059X (hardback)
Author Notes:	Sarah Helm is the author of A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII and the play Loyalty , about the 2003 Iraq War. She was a staff journalist on the Sunday Times (London) and a foreign correspondent on the Independent , and now writes for several publications. She lives in London with her husband and two daughters.