Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20271 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Synopsis
The true story of three men who defied Nazis, built a village in the forest, and saved 1,200 Jews.

Customer Reviews

utterly fantastic
This is an awe-inspiring story of unbelievable courage. I would have sworn it was fiction had I not known it was a true story; that these three brothers managed to save over 1000 people in the forests of Belarus is simply amazing.

The author does an excellent job of portraying the Bielski brothers not as one dimensional "larger than life" figures, but as human beings with faults and failings. Still, it is a great tragedy that the brothers were never recognised as the accomplished heros they were; one of them died in the Red Army shortly after the camp was disbanded, and the other two died anonymous immigrants in the United States.

Even people who haven't the slightest interest in the Holocaust or in WW2 will be inspired by the amazing story in this book.