In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944

Atkinson, Linda

ISBN 10: 0688027148 ISBN 13: 9780688027148

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1984

Synopsis

The biography of a heroic young woman who was armed and trained by the British to parachute into Nazi-occupied Europe to sabotage the German war-effort

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Review:

This account of the short, heroic life of Hannah Senesh is extraordinarily moving and informative....The author lets us see into the soul of this dedicated young woman. --Jewish Currents Nov. 1985

Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Thanks to Linda Atkinson s conviction and skill, the flame endures [in this] impelling and moving biography of a remarkable 20th century heroine....This is a book that will long live in the heart of the reader....written with passion, tenderness, insight... --Horn Book Honor List 1986

Linda Atkinson...portrays a girl one would like to have known...the kind of person prison guards bend rules for....[yet] the biography never becomes a merely personal drama. Hannah s story goes hand in hand with that of all European Jews, and Miss Atkinson s account of their fates is as skillful as her re-creation of Hannah s life. She distills complicated political issues without oversimplifying, and balances what can be the impersonal magnitude of the Holocaust with well-chosen eyewitness accounts....eloquent --Heyden White, New York Times, Oct. 15, 1985

About the Author:

Linda Atkinson (now Linda Goldenberg) has written several award winning books, including biographies and most recently Little People and a Lost World: an Anthropological Mystery, cited as Notable by the National Science Teachers Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0688027148
• ISBN 13: 9780688027148
• Binding: Library Binding