ladydoll's Full Review: Thomas Keneally - Schindler's List
Do you find history boring, dull and just not your "cup of tea"? I would recommend that you put down that romance novel and pick up Schindler's List instead. Here is all the action, terror, horror and yes, even love, that you could care to read all in one book. As a history buff, avid reader and the child of a WWII pilot I found this book to be both fascinating and disturbing.
Oskar Schindler was not a man to be admired. He was a womanizer, a registered Nazi, a drunkard, and the owner of a factory completely staffed by slave labor. Yet, dispite of all this, I admire the man for his love towards his fellow man. He could have turned his back, kept his millions and have done what other men did during the Holocaust. Instead, he risked his life, his reputation, and his wealth in order to save "his people". He defied the SS, he forged official documents, he lied to his fellow Nazi officals and he saved those that worked for him and often those that wanted to work for him. At times he created jobs just to save lives.
If there is a drawback to this book, it would be the number of names that are presented. Sometimes it seems as if this had to be fiction but because I know my history I also know that this is a true tale. It is at once profound and disturbing. How could something like this happen less than 60 years ago, are we not a civilized world???? Well, perhaps not. May we learn from history not to make the same errors today and may the world have more Oskar Schindler's in it if we do.
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