Post by ronturner on Feb 3, 2021 12:38:26 GMT 1
I thought I would share the titles of two books I just finished reading. Good for lockdown idle moments or reading on your Kindle whist waiting for the next IL76 at Speke.
Both novels are so incredulous you might think they are works of fiction. They are NOT.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris.
The story of a young man from Slovakia who found himself in Auschwitz: a man who volunteered to be deported in the belief it would save the test of his family. With no prior experience, he found himself being appointed the person who tattooed all the arrivals. An incredible tale of hardship, pain, luck,ability, opportunism and ultimately survival. A movie is in the planning but seems to be stalled by the objection of the relatives of one of the principal characters in the book.
Resistance Women. By Jennifer Chiaverini.
A chronology of the rise of Hitler and the Natzi party from the early 1930s to the end of WW2. The story of four women who schemed and worked to overthrow the regime. The book deals with their relationship and of their families. It gets off to a slow start and you need to have faith to keep going as the reward is worth the effort. Some of the actions they were engaged in seem so impossible you think it must be fiction, but the epilogue assures you it is not.( Except that one of the principle characters turns out to be made up, but based on factual tales of others.) Woven into the story are factual events of the day most notably the beginnings of the party with its false promises, lies and fake news, the death of the President Hindenburg and how that vacuum was filled, and then on to the terrible events that followed. A good lesson in history.
Both novels are so incredulous you might think they are works of fiction. They are NOT.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris.
The story of a young man from Slovakia who found himself in Auschwitz: a man who volunteered to be deported in the belief it would save the test of his family. With no prior experience, he found himself being appointed the person who tattooed all the arrivals. An incredible tale of hardship, pain, luck,ability, opportunism and ultimately survival. A movie is in the planning but seems to be stalled by the objection of the relatives of one of the principal characters in the book.
Resistance Women. By Jennifer Chiaverini.
A chronology of the rise of Hitler and the Natzi party from the early 1930s to the end of WW2. The story of four women who schemed and worked to overthrow the regime. The book deals with their relationship and of their families. It gets off to a slow start and you need to have faith to keep going as the reward is worth the effort. Some of the actions they were engaged in seem so impossible you think it must be fiction, but the epilogue assures you it is not.( Except that one of the principle characters turns out to be made up, but based on factual tales of others.) Woven into the story are factual events of the day most notably the beginnings of the party with its false promises, lies and fake news, the death of the President Hindenburg and how that vacuum was filled, and then on to the terrible events that followed. A good lesson in history.