Marie Jalowicz Simon: Gone to Ground [2015] hardback JOURN ' Steve Cavanagh

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When her competitors start dying mysteriously

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The book shows that in the so-called age of nationalism the idea of the nation state was by no means dominant

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Marie Jalowicz Simon: Gone to Ground [2015] hardback JOURN ' Steve CavanaghBerlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen year old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews are being rounded up for deportation, forced labour and extermination. Marie takes off the yellow star and vanishes into the city. In the years that follow, Marie lives under an assumed identity, moving between almost twenty different safe houses. She is forced to accept shelter wherever she can find it, and many of those she