Helpful Score: 3
long (400 pages) but good book. It seems that most WWII HF I read focuses on England, France or Germany. The first book I recall about Poland in that era was The Lilac Girls about Polish women in the concentration camps who had medical experiments performed on them. This book is also about Poland - it was a true story of the author's family and portrays what it was like in Poland during the war. All of the immediate family manages to survive the war and all have distinct stories. From emigrating to Brazil to Siberian gulag camps to hiding out in Warsaw basements and attempting to pass as Aryan to the Underground and fake IDs. Since some of my family originated in Poland, the country and its history interests me. This book was good, well written and well researched. It read more like a story than a history text. My only criticism is that it was a little long.
