Publisher Description

When a powerful centuries-old vampire hits Anita Blake's town, a battle of the undead ensues.

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Featuring Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, the novels of New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton introduce readers to a world of supernatural pleasure-and pain. When a powerful, centuries-old vampire hits town, a battle of the undead ensues, with the soul of the city-and Anita's life-at stake... "So I Was Afraid; So What? I had to go, and the sooner I left, the sooner I could come home. If only I believed that Jean-Claude would make things that simple. Nothing was ever simple where he was concerned. If I learned anything about the murders tonight, I'd pay for it, but not in money. Jean-Claude seemed to have plenty of that. No, his coin was more painful, more intimate, more bloody."

Author Biography

Laurell K. Hamilton is a full-time writer and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series and the Merry Gentry series. She lives in a suburb of St. Louis with her family.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Omar Bartov Part 1 Origins: Antisemitism and Scientific Racism 1. The destruction of European Jews: precedents Raul Hilberg 2. Psychiatry, German society and the Nazi 'Euthanasia' programme Michael Burleigh 3. Step by step: the expansion of murder, 1939-1941 Henry Friedlander Part 2 Implementation: beyond intentionalism and functionalism 4. The extermination of the European Jews in historiography: fifty years later Saul Friedlander 5. The planning intelligentsia and the 'Final Solution' Gotz Aly 6. The Wannsee Conference, the fate of German Jews, and Hitler's decision in principle to exterminate all European Jews Christian Gerlach 7. German soldiers and the Holocaust: historiography, research and implications Omer Bartov 8. 'Once again I've got to play general to the Jews': from the war diary of Blutordenstrager Felix Landau Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen and Volker Riess (eds) 9. Places far away, places very near: Mauthausen, the camps of the Shoah, and the bystanders Gordon Horwitz 10. Under a cruel star: a life in Prague, 1941-1968 Heda Margolius Kovaly Part 3 Aftermath: testimony, justice, and denial 11. Redefining heroic behaviour: the impromptu self and the Holocaust experience Lawrence Langer 12. The gray zone Primo Levi 13. Remembering in vain: the Klaus Barbie Trial and crimes against humanity Alain Finkielkraut

Review

She's the 'it' girl for bloodsuckers, werewolves, wereleopards and assorted undead types. (News Press [Fort Myers, FL])

[A] gutsy, no-nonsense female unafraid to take on anything that the preternatural world throws her way. (Library Journal)

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She's the 'it' girl for bloodsuckers, werewolves, wereleopards and assorted undead types. ( News Press [Fort Myers, FL]) [A] gutsy, no-nonsense female unafraid to take on anything that the preternatural world throws her way. ( Library Journal)

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