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Fort Breendonk was built in the early 1900s to protect Antwerp, Belgium, from possible German invasion. Damaged at the start of World War I, it fell into disrepair . . . until the Nazis took it over after their invasion of Belgium in 1940. Never designated an official concentration camp by the SS and instead labeled a "reception" camp where prisoners were held until they were either released or transported, Breendonk was no less brutal. About ...

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But Vesuvius was an active volcano, and within twenty-four hours of its eruption, the city was destroyed. Hundreds of years later, archaeologists unearthed what was buried under the rubble. The most unexpected and extraordinary discovery? The imprints of Pompeiians, their deaths captured as if by photographic images in volcanic ash.

After a centuries-old skeleton is unearthed, scientists rely on specialized artists to reconstruct a forgotten face of the past. Full color.

With striking photographs and engaging text, Deem tells the stories of human bodies discovered in European peat bogs and explains how their peat graves acted to preserve their bodies so well. Full color.

Fort Breendonk was built in the early 1900s to protect Antwerp, Belgium, from possible German invasion. Damaged at the start of World War I, it fell into disrepair . . . until the Nazis took it over after their invasion of Belgium in 1940. Never designated an official concentration camp by the SS and instead labeled a "reception" camp where prisoners were held until they were either released or transported, Breendonk was no less brutal. About ...

The author of "Bodies from the Ash" and "Bodies from the Bog" takes readers on a captivating and creepy journey to learn about glaciers, hulking masses of moving ice that are now offering up many secrets of the past. Full color.

Julian Drew "lives" with his father, his abusive stepmother and her children, but it's not a life anyone would want. Purchasing his first notebook (NB), he then begins a journal and develops a secret code to record his fight for survival and recovery.

With striking photographs and engaging text, Deem tells the stories of human bodies discovered in European peat bogs and explains how their peat graves acted to preserve their bodies so well. Full color.