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 enlarge | Author: Kressmann Taylor
Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 5503
Media: Hardcover
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0285636294
EAN: 9780285636293
ASIN: 0285636294
Publication Date: March 14, 2002
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 Beautiful story January 18, 2008
SJSmith (UK)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Difficult to review without referring to the plot, therefore this is quite short. The story is only 64 pages but it feels rich with detail. Originally published in 1938 this story caused quite a stir!
It is written as a series of letters between a Jewish American living in San Francisco and his former business partner who had returned to Germany. It's sad, tragic and evocative. I'd like everyone I know to read this memorable story.
Fantastic book! August 17, 2007
Tyler Durden (Sheffield UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book was recommended on BBC R4's 'A Good Read'. It is so well written and uses your own imagination to read between the lines. I read this in 1 sitting and wanted to go right back to the start - had my wife not grabbed it off me!
Reader's Digest dropped its no-fiction-rule to publish this book April 23, 2007
Robin Pain (Cambridge United Kingdom)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
An exchange of letters sounds boring but in this case it is a necessary formula for a unique "trick" - that is not a trick.
The idea is so very perfect that it would be difficult to make if fail even with poor writing but it is well written and carefully crafted.
Where Orwell's Animal Farm slowly and relentlessly crushes the hard diamond of Totalitarianism with a road roller, this book splits it with a single expert tap exactly on a cleavage fault, in a blink of the eye.
Sorry to be so vague but you can't describe it without giving some of it away - not that it depends on that but you *must* read it as is with no preconceptions and also you must take it at face value because in the end there is no trick.
Profoundly thought-provoking April 20, 2007
hiljean (Wiltshire, England)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this book after hearing about it on Radio 4's "A Good Read" and am amazed that I had never heard of it before. It is a book which should be made essential reading in all secondary schools. Although it deals with the events leading up to the Holocaust, through the relationship between a Jew and a non-Jew who returns to Germany, the devastating effects of propaganda and misinformation are timeless and important themes. What gives this work even more power is the information contained in the Afterword explaining how and why this book came to be written. It reminds us too, that we have a duty to inform ourselves about what is happening in the world and that we must not just shrug our shoulders . . . but sadly it seems we still are (Darfur, Rwanda, the list goes on).
The Best Thirty Minute Read Ever October 7, 2004
Stephen Conyers
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
I found this book breath taking. I felt like a spy, opening and reading these letters between these two fantastic people.
The book really shows how Hitler managed to win over the minds of the German people, whether they wanted him to or not. I also feel that its brevity adds to its poinancy and this book will stay with me forever.
I personally feel that all GCSE history students (myself being one)should read this book. It only takes 30 minutes, and really shows both the political and social views in Germany in 1933. Of course, when reading a book one must remember the context. This was written in 1939 when governments all over the world were denying what was happening in Germany, and now looking back on it, it shows the striking difference between the public view, and the offical view of a country.Overall, a beautiful book that will stay with me forever.
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