If This Is A Man/The Truce
Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Literary Biography & Memoir
Paperback Published on: 01/01/1991
£12.99
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If This is a Man/The Truce
No brief summery could do justice to the power of this book. It is a document of such intensity and horror that although my eyes were full of tears I couln... READ MORE
Compulsory Reading
WW2 literature is boring right? We’ve had it hammered into us since school and we know the Nazis were the bad guys and did bad things. So why would Levi ... READ MORE
Synopsis
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose.
He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contempible.
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN: 9780349100135
- Number of pages: 400
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 30 mm
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I chose to read and study the book for my A Level Literature coursework, and wow- what a read! Harrowing and tear inducing at times, but blissfully hopeful... READ MORE
Most powerful book I've read
Thought-provoking, harrowing, not a catalogue of the horrors of the concentration camps, but also an examination of people, motives and reactions. Unforget... READ MORE