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The Pharmacist of Auschwitz reaches #1 on Barnes & Noble Nook

Great news, my book got to the top of the Barnes & Noble Nook bestseller list today – by the time I was able to log on  and check for a screenshot it had slipped to #2, but I will take that any day  :-)

Rave review from SF Book Review for Patricia Posner's The Pharmacist of Auschwitz

Rave review from the San Francisco Book Review for The Pharmacist of Auschwitz."a very hair-raising, eye-opening, breath-taking story of greed, corruption, and pain....needs to be in every single English class around the world . . . . Words cannot even properly describe the devastation that unfolds within these pages. There are moments in the book where you feel as if you are there along with the SS officers and their prisoners."

The Pharmacist of Auschwitz foreign rights sold to 5 countries

Good news on the latest successful auction of foreign rights for The Pharmacist of Auschwitz! 
Now 5 countries, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. The all important German auction is next. 

Patricia Posner and Gerald Posner onThe Pharmacist of Auschwitz and the Angel of Death

International Holocaust Memorial Day
Read Gerald's 1986 book about how Auschwitz's Angel of Death Josef Mengele got away 
MENGELE: THE COMPLETE STORY
and then read 
Patricia's just released and critically acclaimed biography about Victor Capesius, the chief pharmacist at Auschwitz who did the life and death selections of prisoners with Mengele, and how Capesius almost got away
THE PHARMACIST OF AUSCHWITZ: THE UNTOLD STORY

Patricia Posner interview with History Author Show about The Pharmacist of Auschwitz

OK, it might be difficult for those who don't know Trisha Posner very well to appreciate that her confidence disappears when she has to do some public event or publicity for her book. Having lived with her subject for a year, and being passionate about it, she knows it inside and out. Still, she's all nerves when it comes to talking about it. That is why I am SO proud of this first major interview, Dean Karayanis, the host of the History Author Show, just posted a one...

Remarkable profile of Trisha Posner and her upcoming The Pharmacist of Auschwitz

Read the story here

A Dutch parallel universe of last night's presidential debate

The World According to David IrvingAn Interview in London...

The World According to David IrvingAn Interview in London with Gerald Posner The Sunday Observer, March 19, 2000

'Those are Adolf Eichmann's personal papers and diaries, the ones the Israelis didn't find when they kidnapped him,' says David Irving, casually pointing to a stack of papers strewn on his kitchen table. His flat is overflowing with books, documents, files, as well as World War II memorabilia. 'They are more interesting than the Eichmann papers Israel just released to help the defe...

Posner: Pope Francis abandons reform of Vatican Finances

The Wall Street Journal reporting from Rome indicates that Pope Francis has given up reforming the Vatican’s finances.
I had high hopes at the end of GOD’S BANKERS in 2015 that Pope Francis might succeed in reforming the arcane and scandal ridden money world of the Vatican.  He appointed the no-nonsense Cardinal George Pell to clean house and gave him wide ranging powers.
The bad news?
The old guard has won.  They have somehow convinced Francis over the last 18 months to strip Pell of...

Did the U.S. Strike a Secret Deal with a 9/11 Terrorist to protect Saudi Arabia and Pakistan?

Those who read my 2003 "WHY AMERICA SLEPT: The Failure to Prevent 9/11" will remember that my last chapter disclosed the details of a so-called "false flag" interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, then thought to be the 3rd ranking Al Qaeda terrorist.  He disclosed information to his interrogators about 3 Saudi Princes and the chief of Pakistan's Air Force.  Not long after the US informed the Saudis and Pakistanis of what he said, all 4 men died, one of unexplained complications from routine...