A unique; deeply political survivor’s diary from the final year inside the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.Hanna Lévy-Hass; a Yugoslavian Jew; emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment. Levy-Hass stands alone as the only resistance fighter to record on her own experience inside the camps; and she does so with unflinching clarity and attention to the political and social divisions inside Bergen Belsen."
#446278 in Books Pegasus Books 2014-11-15Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.20 x .90 x 5.50l; .0 #File Name: 1605986399336 pagesPegasus Books
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Interesting sagaBy Philip WilsonAn enlightening trip from prehistory through the thirteenth century of a fascinating people.65 of 67 people found the following review helpful. wordy lackingBy C. P. AndersonI'm guessing this might be the kind of history book for people who don't like history. Instead of analysis; theories; and even just plain facts and narrative; what you get instead is lots of purple prose; lots of details about places the author visits; lots of very high-level flights of fancy; lots of repeated information; lots of stuff that's not even related to the topic.Just to give you an idea; here's how one chapter begins:"The little Swedish island of Faro lies just off the northern tip of Gotland; like a raft that has slipped its mooring. Even mainland Swedes tend to misinterpret the name 'Faro' - hearing in it their word 'far;' meaning 'sheep.' Since 'o' means island; they tend to assume the place is called the 'island of the sheep' - and given the number of sheep there; it is an easy mistake to make. On Faro; however; there is a distinct dialect of the Swedish tongue; called Modern Gutnish; which has been spoken in some of the islands since at least the medieval period. Modern Gutnish is derived; as might be expected; from Old Gutnish; another branch of the Old Norse language. For Gutnish speakers on Faro (and they are few and far between now; among a total population of fewer than 600 souls) the word for sheep is 'lamm.' On Faro 'far' has connotations of distance travelled; the journey; and so the name is better understood as either 'the travelers' island' or; even more precisely. 'the island that must be travelled to.' Since it lies marooned off the coast of an island off the coast of Sweden; it seems like a suitable name."And all this to introduce a trip the author takes to Faro to look at some early pictographs of long boats - but not before another several pages featuring similar diversions devoted to Ingmar Bergman (who lived on the island) and a detailed description of the landscape and walk to the pictograph. It all ends with this rather purple bit:"There was something magical in the air around that plain of bedrock trapped beneath its protective shield of ice. The sun was gone; replaced by a bright silver disc of gibbous moon that turned the crust from clear to white. How many sunsets and moonrises had cast their light and shade across that ship carving since its maker walked away from it all those thousands of years before? We see it now just as they saw it then."As they used to say in Monthy Python and the Holy Grail; "get on with it!"A very odd effort; but probably not all that unusual when you realize it's coming from a television personality. There's a lot better stuff out there I'm sure.0 of 2 people found the following review helpful. for Viking-philes!By MaryA very easy to read and interesting look into the Viking Heritage. This book helps put a human face to the marauding; raping and pillaging Vikings.
