Book description
A new and heartbreaking history of World War II as told through the shocking experiences of zoos across the globe.
As Europe lurched into war in 1939, zookeepers started killing their animals. On September 1, as German forces invaded Poland, Warsaw began with its reptiles. Two days later, workers…
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