Tuesday, September 13, 2011

The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz : A True Story Of World War II
by Denis Avey and Rob Broomby

I couldn't get into this book at all. At page 16, I quit. Part of the problem is the vocabulary used. Denis Avey is British and if you're not familiar with certain words (that are not explained), they just bounce right off. The book was obviously dictated but the writer doesn't exude any excitement (he's British too and worked for the BBC as a broadcast journalist).
The title is misleading because Avey did not break into Auschwitz but swapped places with a Dutch Jewish inmate. He experienced the cruelty and survived.
I think the story would have been better written in much abler hands and maybe then I would have finished the book.

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