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An unputdownable tale of one man's quest to recover his family's property, plundered by the Nazis.

Menachem Kaiser's brilliantly told story is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather's former battle to reclaim the family's property in Sosnowiec, Poland. Here, he meets a Polish lawyer known…

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1 author picked Plunder as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book took me to places I was not expecting. I love memoirs like this that are stranger than fiction. Kaiser’s memoir starts simply enough with his father’s request that he check out a building his grandfather owned before World War II. But then it twists and twists again. Come for the history, stay for the adventure.

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