Faye tells her unforgettable story of heroism; hardship; and resistance. Faye was an ordinary teenager when the Nazis invaded her town on the Russian-Polish border. She had a large; loving famliy; good friends and neighbours; most of whom were lost soon after the horrors of the Holocaut began. But Faye survived; and the photographs she took testify to her experiences and the persecution she witnessed. Decorated for heroism; Schulman uses her biography to tell an extraordinary story not just of surival; but of struggle and resistance against oppression. She talks about escaping from the Nazis; finding a partisan unit and proving her worth. The photographs she took speak eloquently of her experience of surviving for years in the woods with the partisans. There she learned to nurse the ill and wounded; and took up arms against those who had decimated her world.
#3893933 in Books 1984-06Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 #File Name: 0913037052
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. The unknown leaderBy Giacomo FedeleToo many peoples have wrong ideas about the managerial and; more important; military capabilities of this incredible man; the only one that not only gave orders to the empire militarty elite but had the courage to pretend respect from them not by his position but for with his examples (this gained him the Mac Donald hate and his tempative to appear as the real organizer of the 1809 italian campaign.As the president of the main italian napoleonic reenactment group; I had access to the documents and the real battlefield and this make me able to understand many facts about this man and how deep is the work done on this book.Before the 1809 austrian aggressor; the real commander of the Italian Army had no military experience over the one in Marengo so; he understimate the enemy gaining an heavy defeat in Sacile (a battle bad planned and conduced in a hand to mouth style) but he learned from his mistakes; was so strong to admit his guilty with his stepfather and reorganize the army in a so incredible way that in the successive real battle; near Nervesa; he conduces his army over the Piave River neverthless the spring flood and broke the back of austrian army pushing it from Italy to the Raab river conquering on his way oll the austrian alpine forts guarding the alpine passages.The author conduce you hand by hand from the arrive of Eugene in Milan to the Raab battle explaining with precision and ability the plans of both commanders let Eugene appear like a real commander; not only as the puppet that Mac Donald wanted to present.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. One of a kindBy Gregory F. YevtichAre there any other works on this subject? R. Epstein's work is much needed and based on his academic works on the same subject. He must be the subject matter expert. Good blend of fact and narrative. Great value.
