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The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days Of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
by
Dan Kurzman
In October 1940 Nazis forced all the Jews in the Polish city of Warsaw to live in the cramped squalor of a small ghetto. Despite the starvation and disease that claimed 50,000 lives per year, the Jews were not dying swiftly enough to suit Heinrich Himmler, who ordered in 1942 that the Warsaw Ghetto be dismantled and the 450,000 inhabitants be deported to the gas chambers a...more
Paperback, 386 pages
Published
August 22nd 1993
by Da Capo Press
(first published November 30th 1975)
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at first i had a bit of trouble with kurzman's technique of digression...
i arbitrarily use ellipses in my informal writing, a bad and pointless habit i mean to correct soon, but kurzman uses them to excellent effect as long as you realize what he's doing...
he will make a statement, usually one which describes a specific outcome, which ends with an ellipsis, and he will then move into a detailed digression away from the main story in order to provide exposition about how that outcome ...more
i arbitrarily use ellipses in my informal writing, a bad and pointless habit i mean to correct soon, but kurzman uses them to excellent effect as long as you realize what he's doing...
he will make a statement, usually one which describes a specific outcome, which ends with an ellipsis, and he will then move into a detailed digression away from the main story in order to provide exposition about how that outcome ...more
Dan Kurtzmanin "Varsovan geton kansannousu" (Art House, 2005) kuvaa niitä vajaata kolmeakymmentä päivää keväällä 1943, jolloin Varsovan geton juutalaiset nousivat aseelliseen vastarintaan SS:n kaavailemien pakkosiirtojen alla. Taistelu tiedettiin toivottomaksi jo sen käynnistyessä, mutta siitä huolimatta heikosti aseistautuneet juutalaiset pystyivät pitämään puoliaan ylivoimaista vihollista vastaan niin bunkkereissa, palavissa rakennuksissa kuin viemäreissäkin. Sanottavammin apua ei ol...more
Great account of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters. I like it because they did not passively submit to their deaths like so many other Jews during the Holocaust. I read it at BYU.
Good, in fact, great account of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Kurzman traces each day. Excellent.
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