- Paperback: 332 pages
- Publisher: Xlibris Corporation (5 Jun 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0738851337
- ISBN-13: 978-0738851334
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 14.9 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,409,266 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I apologise for being childish, but I borrowed the book off my brother ...purely because of the writers surname, yes I'm very childish.
However,after several weeks into being my coffee table humour item I did a strangething .... I started reading it, what a great piece of work, wellresearched and lucidly presented providing a window into the darkestperiod of european history
However,after several weeks into being my coffee table humour item I did a strangething .... I started reading it, what a great piece of work, wellresearched and lucidly presented providing a window into the darkestperiod of european history
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Horrifying but true
26 May 2006
Format:Paperback
Never before has the full horror of what happened during Hitler's reign of terror over Europe hit me this hard.
To think of what these people went through makes me shudder, and that's just thinking about it based on my experiences from reading this book! I cannot imagine what it would be like to go through even for a second and the respect I feel towards these several million Jewish people is so strong that it cannot be put into words. The most important feature of the book comes with the (what I like to call) Truth-Will-Out Factor, by which I basically mean that the truth is allowed to speak for itself. Occassionally eye-witness accounts are given whole pages to themselves, while you may see this as a little peculiar I thought it was a delightful touch!
The book lays out the facts plainly, for all to see, and lets the facts do the talking. Again, this leads to a balanced portrayal of truth and allows the reader to make up her own mind about what happened on that week. I've pawed over historical texts before and, while it never seemed exactly pleasant, the events always appeared to be so far back in time that it could hardly ever come back to bother me now, or us, any of us, in the human race, in this day and age.
However, with the events of September the 11th and even in London on June the 7th, we can see how easily it can be for someone to just go that little bit too far. And the horrifying aspects that come down from this.
If pictures can indeed paint a thousand words then the photographic evidence held within this hefty tome (450 pages more than would be expected) speak truly to all of us. One particular photo had me in tears - a little boy, just standing there. The caption reads 'Mummy's not coming back'. As the author goes on to say, we cannot let this happen again.
How can we make sure that we don't? The author seems to ultimately surmise that, even merely by retelling the events, then we are all helping just that little bit. And the message, I came away from the book with is that every little notion helps crush international terrorism, even just if it's checking you've got the right change! Or taking the bus instead of your car, the pictures, words, photographic images, statements and lyrics of songs sung by detainees included within these pages will never leave my painful memory. My heart bleeds and goes out to the soul of everyone involved.
A magnificent, commendable work and very much something to be shoved proudly in the faces of anyoen who is ignorant enough as to tell you that the Holocaust .ever happened!
To think of what these people went through makes me shudder, and that's just thinking about it based on my experiences from reading this book! I cannot imagine what it would be like to go through even for a second and the respect I feel towards these several million Jewish people is so strong that it cannot be put into words. The most important feature of the book comes with the (what I like to call) Truth-Will-Out Factor, by which I basically mean that the truth is allowed to speak for itself. Occassionally eye-witness accounts are given whole pages to themselves, while you may see this as a little peculiar I thought it was a delightful touch!
The book lays out the facts plainly, for all to see, and lets the facts do the talking. Again, this leads to a balanced portrayal of truth and allows the reader to make up her own mind about what happened on that week. I've pawed over historical texts before and, while it never seemed exactly pleasant, the events always appeared to be so far back in time that it could hardly ever come back to bother me now, or us, any of us, in the human race, in this day and age.
However, with the events of September the 11th and even in London on June the 7th, we can see how easily it can be for someone to just go that little bit too far. And the horrifying aspects that come down from this.
If pictures can indeed paint a thousand words then the photographic evidence held within this hefty tome (450 pages more than would be expected) speak truly to all of us. One particular photo had me in tears - a little boy, just standing there. The caption reads 'Mummy's not coming back'. As the author goes on to say, we cannot let this happen again.
How can we make sure that we don't? The author seems to ultimately surmise that, even merely by retelling the events, then we are all helping just that little bit. And the message, I came away from the book with is that every little notion helps crush international terrorism, even just if it's checking you've got the right change! Or taking the bus instead of your car, the pictures, words, photographic images, statements and lyrics of songs sung by detainees included within these pages will never leave my painful memory. My heart bleeds and goes out to the soul of everyone involved.
A magnificent, commendable work and very much something to be shoved proudly in the faces of anyoen who is ignorant enough as to tell you that the Holocaust .ever happened!
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