Gabriele C. (theoldbookshelf) reviewed on 10/2/2014 + 43 more book reviews

i have wanted this book ever since i first heard a report on it , when it first came out . i finally found it .... husband warned me , that it was a brutal book and that i wouldnt like it . growning up in germany shortly after the war , the holocaust wasnt as much discussed as it should have been , but the germans were still somewhat numb and not yet free to look at what happened objectively . only in later years have i come to understand . from that background , looking at this book , is very hard . i can not read but parts of it and know it is too horriffic . " so much death .what can men do against such reckless hate " to quote theoden king from LOTR . it is a very hard book to read --- but a story that has to be told , because of the general denial by the japanese . also the role of the service women , the japanese kept ... another atrocity long been covered and denied --- but thats another story .

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