Steve B. (fog) - reviewed on 9/9/2020 + 139 more book reviews

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One of the better fictional accounts of the conditions surrounding the Nazi Death camp Auschwitz. While being a fictional book it relies heavily on historical figures and actions surrounding the Nazi camps and the Allied nations' unwillingness to come to grips with the truth of what was happening to the prisoners in these camps. The book follows the exploits of Jacob, a German Jew as he is caught up in the resistance movement after his parents are murdered by the Gestapo. His trials and tribulations of being sent to Auschwitz and his eventual escape and the consequences to him and the few friends he makes in the cam following his escape make for a though provoking read.
The only thing I read that was not accurate was when the author wrote "That was when I heard the pump action of a shotgun" and then just a few sentences later wrote " Now he was staring into a double-barreled shogun." A double barrel shotgun does not have a pump action to load shells, they are hand loaded.

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