Remember Us is a look back at the lost world of the shtetl: a wise Zayde offering prophetic and profound words to his grandson; the rich experience of Shabbos; and the treasure of a loving family. All this is torn apart with the arrival of the Holocaust; beginning a crucible fraught with twists and turns so unpredictable and surprising that they defy any attempt to find reason within them. From work camps to the partisans of the Nowogrudek forests; from the Mauthausen concentration camp to life as a displaced person in Italy; and from fighting the Egyptian army in a tiny Israeli kibbutz in 1948 to starting a new life in a new world in New York; this book encompasses the mythical “hero’s journey†in very real historical events. Through the eyes of ninety-one-year-old Holocaust survivor Martin Small; we learn that these priceless memories that are too painful to remember are also too painful to forget.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. George Marrett does it again!By J. ClintonThe first I heard of George Marrett was in reading a book about my favourite (the F-14 Tomcat).Mr Marrett having left the Air Force and Test Pilot program; wound up flying for the HughesAircraft company and subsequently went on to fly many hours in the Tomcat while developing thelegendary AIM-54 Phoenix/AWG-9 combination that was to give the Tomcat capabilities other aircraftcould only dream of. Mr Marrett recounts details of this program and others in the 3rd of threebooks he's written about his flying exploits - Testing Death.The next time I came across his name was when I ordered a book called Cheating Death and went onto read about his time flying the A-1 Skyraider (another favourite aircraft of mine) in Vietnam.I'm not reviewing that book here obviously; but if you haven't read it; I suggest you remedy thatsituation at your earliest convenience.So to Contrails Over the Mojave. This details stories of the heady days at Muroc/Edwards when thenewest; fastest; hottest aircraft were showing up to be rung out by the brave men of the test pilotfraternity. Mr Marrett details his own experiences and many of those experienced by his friends andcollegues. Many of the stories don't have happy endings for those involved as this was an inherentlydangerous occupaption. Many of the stories are amusing. ALL of them are compelling and well written.For anyone interested in flying; this is a great read. For those interested in military aviation;this is a must read.I highly reccommend this book to all and thank Mr Marrett for sharing his experiences with us.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Contrails Over The Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight TestingBy Patricia L. SchwatkaI live near Edwards AFB and I have seen Space Shuttle landings; and watched them load the shuttle onto the 747 to ship back to Florida several times; and I've met quite a few of the9 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Entertaining book. However...By C. Wyndham"Contrails Over the Mojave" is certainly an entertaining book about one of my favorite subjects. I learned a lot of details about some of the famous and not-so-famous flight test projects at Edwards. The author's qualifications to write this book are beyond reproach.However...There are at least two pages in the book (pages 68-69; Chapter 6) that are nearly identical to text found in Chapter 10 of a book entitled "Aerospace Pilot;" by Charles Coombs; published in 1964 by William Morrow and Company; Inc. There is no attribution or acknowledgement of the source of the text in either book; so I don't really know what to think here. Using substantial portions of material without attribution has a name -- it's called plagiarism.To be fair; perhaps the section of text in question was actually written by Marrett originally; and used by Coombs first in his 1964 book. I don't know. What I do know is that SOMEBODY wrote it; and one of the authors appears to have lifted it from another.This was a minor detraction from what is otherwise a very good book.
