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Auschwitz Report by Primo Levi
Category: History
While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was then forgotten, and has until now remained unknown to a wider public. Dating from the weeks and months immediately a ...Show more
Auschwitz Testimonies 1945-1986 by Primo Levi
Category: Non-Fiction
In 1945, soon after liberation, Soviet authorities in control of the Kattowitz (Katowice) camp in Poland asked Primo Levi and his fellow captive Leonardo De Benedetti to compile a detailed report on the sanitary conditions in Auschwitz. The result was an extraordinary testimony and one of the first acco ...Show more
IF THIS IS A MAN AND THE TRUCE by Primo Levi
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
"Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRUCE covers his long journey to Italy at the end of the war through Russia and Central Europe. Levi never ra ...Show more
If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, t ...Show more
If This Is A Man/The Truce by Primo Levi
Category: History
A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count 'With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell ...Show more
If This is a Man: The Truce by Primo Levi; Stuart Woolf (Translator)
Category: History | Series: Abacus Bks.
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly ...Show more
Survival in Auschwitz by Levi Primo Levi
Category: Military
Survival in Auschwitz: If This Is a Man is a book written by the Italian author, Primo Levi. It describes his experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in Auschwitz before the camp was liberated by the Red Army. Of t ...Show more
The Complete Works of Primo Levi by Primo Levi
Category: Fiction
Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that "quicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forest's most astute intelligence," has largely been considered a heroic figure in the annals of twentieth-century literature for If This Is a Man, his haunting account of Au ...Show more
The Complete Works of Primo Levi by Primo Levi
Category: Classics
Primo Levi's entire body of work, newly translated, in three beautifully slip-cased hardback editions, with an introduction by Toni Morrison Primo Levi has long been admired for his harrowing account of suffering in Auschwitz, If This Is a Man. Among the thousands of survivors who have written about the ...Show more
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
Category: History | Series: Vintage International
The author of The Periodic Table writes courageously and profoundly about the world of Nazi concentration camps in his last and possibly finest book.
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
Category: Biography
Shortly after completing The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and unpremeditated, and there are some who argue that he kiled himself because he was tormented by guilt - guilt that he had survived the horrors of Auschwitz while others, bette ...Show more
The Last Interview - Conversation with Giovanni Tesio by Primo Levi
Category: Biography
At the start of 1987, Primo Levi took part in a remarkable series of conversations about his early life with a friend and fellow writer, Giovanni Tesio. This book is the result of those meetings, originally intended to be the basis for an authorized biography and published here in English for the first ...Show more