The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz

Confesso que comprei este livro pela capa. O assunto interessava-me e eu não consegui resistir.

Autor: Denis Avey com Rob Broomby

Texto da contra-capa: "The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz" is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the concentration camp, Buna-Monowitz, known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a British POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could. He hatched a plan to swap places with a Jewish inmate and smuggled himself into his sector of the camp. He spent the night there on two occasions and experienced at first-hand the cruelty of a place where slave workers, had been sentenced to death through labor. Astonishingly, he survived to witness the aftermath of the Death March where thousands of prisoners were murdered by the Nazis as the Soviet Army advanced. After his own long trek right across central Europe he was repatriated to Britain. For decades he couldn't bring himself to revisit the past that haunted his dreams, but now Denis Avey feels able to tell the full story--a tale as gripping as it is moving--which offers us a unique insight into the mind of an ordinary man whose moral and physical courage are almost beyond belief.

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É um livro fácil de ler, apesar de se tornar um pouco chato por demorar até chegar à parte que realmente me fez comprar o livro. Acho extremamente curtas as cenas das trocas e não creio que merecesse um livro tão grande para contar a história toda, havendo muitas partes que eram dispensáveis.

Fora esse detalhe, é uma história humana, de sofrimento, coragem, sadismo e loucura. Consegue emocionar e enraivecer com a violência inerente ao Holocaustro. Algumas situações são tão irreais que parecem retiradas de um filme ou livro de ficção.

Foi bem escrito e é tão detalhado como uma biografia pode ser.

Recomenda-se a leitura, mas sem grandes expectativas.

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