If This Is A Woman
inside ravensbruck: hitler's concentration camp for women
$62.52
- Paperback
768 pages
- Release Date
7 March 2016
Summary
Ravensbruck: Unveiling the Untold Stories of the Women’s Concentration Camp
Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize: A ‘profoundly moving chronicle’ (Observer) that tells the story of Ravensbruck, the only concentration camp designed specifically for women, using new testimony from survivors
On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349120034 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 034912003X |
| Author: | Sarah Helm |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 768 |
| Release Date: | 7 March 2016 |
| Weight: | 610g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 39mm |
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Compelling … [Helm] has painstakingly sought out many survivors and talked to them herself. The results are devastating …What one is left with at the end of this momentous book is a sense of the power of human nature, both for good and evil - Independent on Sunday
A profoundly moving chronicle - ObserverAn epic feat of scholarly investigation - SpectatorHelm has done us all a great service in this compelling, magisterial volume … Read this book. Be appalled. Be moved. And be angry that so little action was taken to help, or to remember, until it was nearly too late. Read it, and weep - Jewish ChronicleAbout The Author
Sarah Helm
Sarah Helm was a reporter on the Sunday Times and Diplomatic Editor for the Independent before becoming the Jerusalem and then Brussels correspondent for the same paper. A Life in Secrets was her first book.
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