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This was a powerful, gut-wrenching true story that I expected to give five stars. I still do think it is an important read, but Dronfield states in the book’s introduction that it reads like a novel, and I simply don’t think it does. It reads like a history textbook which keeps coming back to the same family. It is my opinion that Dronfield spent too much time packing his book with historical fact that could be found in countless other books, rather than focusing on what makes his unique: the incredible story of Gustav and Fritz’s loyalty. I admire the author’s attention to detail, but I felt that these real-life people were somewhat lost amidst Dronfield’s need to pack in statistic after statistic.
I would still recommend this book as a real life testimony to the horrors of the Holocaust, but be under no illusion that this will read as a novel, or provide the character development and narrative arcs that a novel would. Approach as a history textbook and you may appreciate the book’s contents.
I would still recommend this book as a real life testimony to the horrors of the Holocaust, but be under no illusion that this will read as a novel, or provide the character development and narrative arcs that a novel would. Approach as a history textbook and you may appreciate the book’s contents.