Reissued to coincide with the release of Steven Spielberg's film of the same name from Universal Pictures, this Booker Prize-winning novel tells the true story of one remarkable man who outwitted the Nazis to save more Jews during WWII than any single person. "A masterful account of the growth of the human soul". --LA Times Book Review.
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Reissued to coincide with the release of Steven Spielberg's film of the same name from Universal Pictures, this Booker Prize-winning novel tells the true story of one remarkable man who outwitted the Nazis to save more Jews during WWII than any single person. "A masterful account of the growth of the human soul". --LA Times Book Review.
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LIKE NEW. Schindler's List recreates the true story of Oskar Schindler, the Czech-born southern German industrialist who risked his life to save over 1, 100 of his Jewish factory workers from the death camps in Nazi-occupied Poland. Thomas Keneally's "documentary novel, " based on the recollections of the Schindlerjuden (Schindler's Jews), Schindler himself, and other witnesses, is told in a series of snapshot stories. It recounts the lives of the flamboyant profiteer and womanizer Schindler; Schindler's long-suffering wife, Emilie; the brutal SS (Nazi secret service) commandant Amon Goeth; Schindler's quietly courageous factory manager, Itzhak Stern; and dozens of other Jews who underwent the horrors of the Nazi machinery. At the center of the story, though, are the actions and ambitions of Schindler, who comes to Kraków, Poland, seeking his fortune and ends up outwitting the SS to protect his Jewish employees. It is the story of Schindler's unlikely heroism and of one man's attempt to do good in the midst of outrageous evil. The book explores the complex nature of virtue, the importance of individual human life, the role of witnesses to the Holocaust and the attention to rules and details that sustained the Nazi system of terror.
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sd6161
Sep 15, 2007
The List
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally is the true story of Oskar Schindler; a man of Europeon, non-Jewish Heritage, who migrated to Poland posing as a Nazi businessman seeking his fourtune due to the expenses of WWII. What he initially failed to discern was the Nazi intent of the 'Final Solution.' The power of the story lies within the truth. Schindler could not abide the insanity of the world inwhich he had so nearly become a part. Through accounts from actual survivors on Schindler's List (Schindlerjuden), Keneally has chronicled an historical masterpiece so we will never forget.
donna
Jul 17, 2007
TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTON
BASED ON A TRUE INCIDENT DURING WORLD WAR II, BASICALLY THE STORY OF A SELFISH MAN WHO HAS A CHANGE OF HEART AND ENDS UP SAVING A 1000 JEWS FROM EXTERMINATION IN THE NAZI DEATH CAMPS. HE COMPOSES A LIST OF JEWS THAT HE DEEMS IRREPLACEABLE TO HIS BUSINESS. HOW HE DOES THIS IS A RIVETING STORY THAT EVERYONE SHOULD READ.
