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The wall / by John Hersey.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hersey, John, 1914-1993, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Courage.
- Political persecution.
- Political persecution--Fiction.
- Courage--Fiction.
- Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943--Fiction.
- Warsaw (Poland).
- Poland--Warsaw.
- Local Subjects:
- Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- American fiction.
- English fiction.
- Action and adventure fiction.
- History.
- Dust jackets (Binding) -- 1950.
- Dust jackets (Binding) -- Specimens -- United States -- 1950.
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1950.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 632 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.
- Summary:
- The Wall tells the inspirational story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an symbol of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with cruelty, torture, starvation and humiliation.
- Notes:
- "A Borzoi book."
- A novel.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Fiction, Winner, 1951
- National Jewish Book Awards - Fiction, Winner, 1950
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hersey, John, 1914-1993. Wall.
- ISBN:
- 0394607988
- 9780394607986
- OCLC:
- 284928
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