It has been a while since a book has had an emotional impact on me like this one. Rosenberg makes his first foray into historical fiction with this novel, and it really explodes off the pages with suspense, terror, despair, and heroic triumph. Like many past students who were briefly exposed to this...
If you haven't seen The Great Escape with Steve McQueen I highly recommend you do. Because talk about entertaining and based on an incredible true story. I mention that movie because I was really hoping The Auschwitz Escape would be something similar. While, enjoyable and a fast read, it wasn't what...
For all the great reviews ,I expected better writing. Good story, good research, but I never felt engaged with any of the characters .This is probably more suited for high school level.
Epic in scope, Joel Rosenberg’s “The Auschwitz Escape” is a work of historical fiction that is both breathtaking and heartbreaking. Young and naïve Jacob Wiesz, guided by his beloved Uncle Avi, joins the Resistance movement in Belgium after he is forced to flee his native Germany. Meanwhile, Jean-Lu...
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