Oh my, can’t believe this. I just finished my 14th book this 2018. And I promised myself to finish a hundred books. Goodreads says I am 8 books ahead of schedule. Hooray!
The One Man by Andrew Gross.
It’s actually my first time to read an Andrew Gross book. Back to the Holocaust and concentration camps. Nazi persecution, Auschwitz, gas chambers, murder of millions of Jews. It was a riveting read. Familiar story about WWII. It is the first book I read this year with a five star. That’s how much I enjoyed this book. Here’s a short summary from Goodreads:
It’s 1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendel and his family are trying to flee Paris when they are caught and forced onto a train along with thousands of other Jewish families. At the other end of the long, torturous train ride, Alfred is separated from his family and sent to the men’s camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life’s work. The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war–or end it.
Nathan Blum works behind a desk at an intelligence office in Washington, DC, but he longs to contribute to the war effort in a more meaningful way, and he has a particular skill set the US suddenly needs. Nathan is fluent in German and Polish, and he proved his scrappiness at a young age when he escaped from the Krakow ghetto. Now the government wants him to take on the most dangerous assignment of his life: Nathan must sneak into Auschwitz on a mission to find and escape with one man.
More than 20 years ago, I discovered another writer and I read most of his books. Leon Uris. Uris is American but his parents were Jewish American. He writes historical novels too, mostly about WWII and Poland. Mila 18, QB VII and Trinity are my favorites.
Reading another Peter Mayle book at the moment. Encore Provence, my third book of Peter Mayle.
Dreams And Escapes 