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  • Modena
    Alex Bloch
    The historical novel Modena: The Call of the Homeland describes the vast differences between democracy and dictatorship playing out before World War II.In 1930s Berlin, a group of liberal German citizens come together to fight against the growing draconian measures that are becoming increasingly dire after Hitler has come into power.When the Berlin liberals decide to become act...
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  • The Weimar Legacy
    Alex Bloch
    The Weimar Legacy begins in 1918 in a small town near Berlin, Germany, where a Catholic school girl named Gertrude befriends Martin, a Jewish boy. After being together for several years, Martin moves to Berlin. Gertrude follows later on and becomes a well-known cabaret singer. The two fall in love and marry.  A year later, Martin is killed in a firefight between his Communist p...
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  • Toledo
    Alex Bloch
    Set in the 13th and 14th centuries in Spain and in Muslim Al Andalus, this fascinating political novel follows three families of different faiths. They escaped from Cordoba during the conquest of that Muslim city by Ferdinand III of Christian Castile. Traveling on dangerous roads during wartime, they arrive in Toledo, which at that time had its own political upheavals due to ec...
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  • Cordoba
    Alex Bloch
    The conquest of the city by Spaniards brings together five families, whose stories are told as they struggle to survive in war-torn Cordoba, while three families flee the city forever.The families are Muslim as well as Christian and Jews, whose ancestors had to convert to the Muslim faith or face exile. The hazardous journeys by the families that left the city and their uncerta...
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  • The Temple Wall
    Alex Bloch
    The historical novel The Temple Wall: Against All Odds covers three generations of a Jewish family living in the Ruhr area of Germany during the first and second crusades. It was known at the time as a pilgrimage to conquer Jerusalem from the Muslim infidels during the 12th century and to recapture Edessa from the Muslims in the 13th century.A son of both the first and third ge...
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  • New Horizons
    Alex Bloch
    New Horizons is based on the true story of a Jewish family escaping pogroms in the Ukraine, where they lived, and the general slaughter and hunger in Russia during the Revolution of 1917 and the following civil war that lasted through 1920. For safety, the family moved to Harbin in Manchuria with many other Russians.At the end of the 19th century, Harbin was a small Chinese fis...
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  • The Journey to Forgiveness
    Alex Bloch
    The Journey to Forgiveness delves into family relationships after a death in the family. It is written through the eyes of the younger brother, a middle-aged man who finally confronts the difficult relationships he’s had throughout his life with his newly deceased brother and their mother.He is a successful writer and restaurant reviewer working for a travel book publisher. As ...
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    16,63 €

  • Fermosa-Rosales
    Alex Bloch
    The novel Fermosa-Rosales is the saga of a family during three generations, beginning in the latter part of the 15th century. Fermosa was all of twenty-six when she left her beloved Toledo, Spain, with her two children. The year was 1492 when the edict of expulsion for Jews was published. The family traveled west on the Camino Real, the long road to Portugal, encountering hards...
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    15,01 €