The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity: The true story of 732 young concentration camp survivors - Softcover

Sir Martin Gilbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780229364 ISBN 13: 9781780229362

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2017

Synopsis

In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond imagining. This is their story, which begins in the lost communities of pre-World War II central Europe, moves through ghetto, concentration camp and death march, to liberation, survival, and finally, fifty years later, a deeply moving reunion.
Martin Gilbert has brought together the recollections of this remarkable group of survivors. With magisterial narration, he tells their astonishing stories. The Boys bears witness to the human spirit, enduring the depths, and bearing hopefully the burden and challenge of survival.

'Martin Gilbert is to be congratulated on producing a masterly and deeply moving tribute to those who had the courage and luck to survive' Literary Review

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Review:

Impossible to put down (Julia Neuberger THE TIMES)

Martin Gilbert is to be congratulated on producing a masterly and deeply moving tribute to those who had the courage and luck to survive (LITERARY REVIEW)

Assembled by one of the period's premier historians ... A uniquely effective addition to Holocaust literature (KIRKUS)

Book Description:

The never-before-told story of a group of child survivors, by the author of the bestselling THE HOLOCAUST.

About this edition

• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1780229364
• ISBN 13: 9781780229362
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528