The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story Hardcover - 2007
by Diane Ackerman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
A true story--as powerful as "Schindler's List"--in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
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Details
- Title The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
- Author Diane Ackerman
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Book Club
- Condition Used Good
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY
- Date September 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 226203
- ISBN 9780393061727 / 0393061728
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 8.65 x 5.99 x 1.17 in (21.97 x 15.21 x 2.97 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: Polish
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Topical: Holocaust
- Library of Congress subjects Zabinski, Jan, Zabinska, Antonina
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007012635
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.531
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Citations
- Booklist, 08/01/2007, Page 5
- Booklist Editors Choice/Adult, 01/01/2008, Page 7
- Kirkus Best Books, 05/15/2007, Page 3
- Library Journal, 09/01/2007, Page 147
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 05/01/2007, Page 56
- LJ Best Books of Year, 12/01/2007, Page 72
- New York Times Book Review, 09/09/2007, Page 9
- Newsweek, 03/03/2008, Page 14
- Publishers Weekly, 07/23/2007, Page 58
