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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

By: Ackerman, Diane

Price: $5.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 2007

Seller ID: 35760

ISBN: 0393061728

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants--o...
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

By: Ackerman, Diane

Price: $4.75

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 2008

Seller ID: 59131

ISBN: 039333306X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these "guests," and human names for the animals, it's no wonder that the zoo's code name became "The House Under a Crazy Star." Best-selling naturalist and acclaimed storyteller Diane Ackerman combines extensive research and an exuberant writing style to re-create this fascinating, true-life story--sharing Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife," while examining the disturbing obsessions at the cor...
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Author:Ackerman, Diane

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story