<div>The true story of one of Hitler&rsquo;s most feared and brutal killers: his life and crimes, postwar atrocities, and forty-year evasion of justice. During World War II, SS Hauptsturmf&uuml;hrer Nikolaus &ldquo;Klaus&rdquo; Barbie earned a reputation for sadistic cruelty unmatched by all but a handful of his contemporaries in Adolf Hitler&rsquo;s Gestapo. In 1942, he was dispatched to Nazi-occupied France after leaving his bloodstained mark on the Netherlands. In Lyons, Barbie was entrusted with &ldquo;cleansing&rdquo; the region of Jews, French Resistance fighters, and Communists, an assignment he undertook with unparalleled enthusiasm. Thousands of people died on Barbie&rsquo;s orders during his time in France&mdash;often by his own hand&mdash;including forty-four orphaned Jewish children and captured resistance leader Jean Moulin, who was tortured and beaten to death. When the Allies were approaching Lyons in the months following the D-Day invasion, Barbie and his subordinates fled, but not before brutally slaughtering all the prisoners still being held captive. But the war&rsquo;s conclusion was not the end of the Klaus Barbie nightmare. With the dawning of the Cold War, the &ldquo;Butcher of Lyons&rdquo; went on to find a new purpose in South America, just as tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union were escalating. Soon, Barbie had a different employer who valued his wartime experience and expertise as an anti-communist man hunter and murderer: the US intelligence services. In Klaus Barbie, investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Tom Bower tells the fascinating, startling, and truly disturbing story of a real-life human monster, and draws back the curtain on one of America&rsquo;s most shocking secrets of the Cold War. </div>

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<div>A &ldquo;compelling [and] carefully researched&rdquo; account of greed, duplicity, and an unholy partnership between Switzerland and the Third Reich (The Washington Times). In the third and fourth decades of the twentieth century, the European continent fell, nation by nation, to Nazi Germany&rsquo;s invincible war machine. But Switzerland remained neutral during World War II, taking no side and bowing to no master. For a long time after, that was the accepted history&mdash;but it was a lie. Respected British investigative journalist Tom Bower reveals the shocking truth about how the government of Switzerland and the Swiss banking industry knowingly collaborated with the Reich during the darkest era in modern history. With the knowledge and acquiescence of the Swiss government, hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from Jewish Holocaust victims&mdash;including gold teeth extracted from the mouths of those murdered&mdash;were systematically hidden away in Swiss bank accounts. But these crimes did not end with the defeat of Hitler. For the next half century, Swiss authorities engaged in a covert campaign of lies, subterfuge, and corruption to hide the wealth from its rightful owners&mdash;concentration camp survivors and the families of the slain&mdash;while freely dispensing the illegally obtained funds to fugitive Nazis. Written by &ldquo;one of the finest investigative journalists in the English-speaking world,&rdquo; Nazi Gold is an explosive true account of state-endorsed crimes and atrocities; of former victims fighting courageously for their due in the face of prejudice, hatred, and indifference; and of the dedicated US Treasury agents who worked tirelessly for decades to right an unconscionable wrong (The Washington Times). </div>

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<div>Two shocking expos&eacute;s of Nazi cruelty and international collusion from &ldquo;one of the finest investigative journalists&rdquo; (The Washington Times). Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe&rsquo;s Jews and Holocaust Survivors This riveting expos&eacute; reveals the shocking truth about how the Swiss banking industry knowingly collaborated with the Third Reich during the darkest era in modern history. With the knowledge and acquiescence of the Swiss government, hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from Jewish Holocaust victims were systematically hidden away in Swiss bank accounts. For the next half century, Swiss authorities engaged in a covert campaign of lies, subterfuge, and corruption to hide the wealth from its rightful owners&mdash;concentration camp survivors and the families of the slain&mdash;while freely dispensing the illegally obtained funds to fugitive Nazis. Nazi Gold is an explosive account of state-endorsed crimes and atrocities; of former victims fighting courageously for their due in the face of prejudice, hatred, and indifference; and of the dedicated US Treasury agents who worked tirelessly for decades to right an unconscionable wrong. &ldquo;Compelling [and] carefully researched.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Times Klaus Barbie: The Butcher of Lyons In 1942, SS Gestapo chief Nikolaus &ldquo;Klaus&rdquo; Barbie was dispatched to Nazi-occupied France after leaving his bloodstained mark on the Netherlands. In Lyons, Barbie was entrusted with &ldquo;cleansing&rdquo; the region of Jews, French Resistance fighters, and Communists, an assignment he undertook with sadistic cruelty. Thousands died on Barbie&rsquo;s orders. Following the D-Day invasion, Barbie fled, slaughtering all his prisoners. But the war&rsquo;s conclusion was not the end of the &ldquo;Butcher of Lyons.&rdquo; With the dawning of the Cold War, Barbie went on to find a new employer: the US intelligence services. He escaped to South America, where he lived a free man until extradited to France to finally stand trial for war crimes in 1983. &ldquo;[A] taut, richly backgrounded story.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews </div>

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<div>This unauthorized biography of King Charles III follows his twenty-year struggle with his public image in the wake of Diana&rsquo;s death. Numerous challenges face King Charles III as he succeeds his mother to the throne of the United Kingdom. While Elizabeth II had a long history of uniting her people, Charles has always been less popular and often divisive. Following Princess Diana&rsquo;s death, his approval rating plummeted to four percent&mdash;the lowest for any royal in recent times. Charles&rsquo;s public support improved following his marriage to Camilla, but how was he able to turn things around? And what sort of monarch will he be? In Rebel King, investigative journalist and historian Tom Bower chronicles two dramatic decades of King Charles&rsquo;s life. He examines Charles&rsquo;s battle for rehabilitation after Diana&rsquo;s death and his refusal to obey the public&rsquo;s expectations of a future king. This book gathers testimonies from more than 120 individuals, many of whom served the royals for long periods and with great distinction. The result reveals dramatic secrets and offers an unrivalled, intimate portrait of the man, the heir, and the making of a king. Previously published as Rebel Prince. Praise for Rebel King &ldquo;A devastating book by Britain&rsquo;s top investigative author.&rdquo; &mdash;Daily Mail &ldquo;Explosive . . . delves inside the bizarre, ultra luxury world of Prince Charles.&rdquo; &mdash;The Sun &ldquo;There is more than enough carping, cosseting and cattiness here to satisfy any appetite for royal intrigue.&rdquo; &mdash;The Sunday Times</div>

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