Prisoners: A Jewish Guard in a Nazi POW Camp
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (848 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0897335155 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 275 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Prisoners is fascinating! Talk about an anti-war book I don't know if there exists another book that examines this fascinating yet horrific aspect of World War II; and, it does so by telling a story of the conditions and the near-hopelessness of the German POWs' situation -- without ever failing to remind us that the prisoners are Nazis.I wasn't surprised to read that author has first-hand knowledge of the camps, as the story is told in oftentimes excrutiating detail -- but the type of detail that you hunger for. This is clearly a can't-put-down-until-you're-finished novel that tells a tough tale sensitively, artfully, and -- at times -- sh. "Long time comin'" according to A Customer. I really enjoyed this read.Mr. Zollo has kept this story inside for a long time but it was worth the wait.Beautifully written with real characters. If a novel can be more realistically set into history, I want to read it!I thank the author for entertaining me with his modern memory of a difficult period in history.. "A unique take on World War II novels and a fascinating read" according to Midwest Book Review. Rough conditions make for strange bedfellows. "Prisoners" tells of Sergeant Sandy Delman, an American Jew faced with guarding a POW camp in rural France. Finding guarding anti-Semitic Germans difficult, he ends up in conflicts with the powers that be. But when supplies run low for all the people at the camp, both soldier and prisoner, a unique and strange plan is hatched. "Prisoners" is a unique take on World War II novels and a fascinating read.
A nicely done debut" — Kirkus Reviews. "No frills WWII action tale
When Delman reacts violently to racial slurs aimed at him by several POWs, he loses his stripes and is consigned to work under a hostile supply sergeant. As more and more captured Germans pour into the camp, provisions begin to run out. The POWs fear a plot to starve them to death. When Delman, a celebrated high school football star, enlists in the Army to fight Germans, he never expects that his poor vision will sentence him to an assignment at a POW camp. When his commanding officer, Colonel Nelson, fails to obtain supplies, Delman approaches him with a risky plan to lead a convoy of trucks, driven by POWs, to bring supplies back from nearby depots. In this remarkable first novel, we meet Technical Sergeant "Sandy" Delman, a young Jewish-American soldier assigned to guard captured Nazi soldiers in a POW camp in rural France. Suddenly, Delman finds himself the unlikely leader of an expedition on which hangs the survival of hundreds of German POWs, and the fate of Colonel N