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Schindler's List

Thomas Keneally

During the Holocaust at the German concentration camp near Plaszow, thousands of Jews lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis. More than a thousand others would have been counted among the dead if not for a womanizing, heavydrinking, German-Catholic industrialist and Nazi Party member named Oskar Schindler.

One of the most remarkable narratives of the Holocaust, "Schindler's List" masterfully recreates the daring exploits of Schindler, who used his enormous fortune to build a factory near the concentration camp and saved the lives of over 1,300 Jews. An absorbing, suspenseful and moving account of Oskar Schindler's legacy of life, this is an unforgettable audio program.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Atria Books
  • Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2020
  • Pages: 416
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.10in - 1.00in - 0.70lb
  • EAN: 9781982151041
  • Categories: Judaism - GeneralClassicsHistorical - 20th Century - World War II & Holocaust

About the Author

Keneally, Thomas: - Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published thirty-three novels since, most recently Crimes of the Father, Napoleon's Last Island, Shame and the Captives, and the New York Times bestselling The Daughters of Mars. He is also the author of Schindler's List, which won the Booker Prize in 1982, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest, and Confederates, all of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written several works of nonfiction, including his boyhood memoir Homebush Boy, The Commonwealth of Thieves, and Searching for Schindler. He is married with two daughters and lives in Sydney, Australia.

Praise for this book

"The remarkable story of a man who saved lives when every sinew of civilization was devoted to destroying them. [It] has the immediacy and the almost unbearable detail of a thousand eye witnesses who forgot nothing." --The New York Times Book Review
"A masterful account of the growth of the human soul." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
"An extraordinary tale...no summary can adequately convey the strategems and reverses and sudden twists of fortune...A notable achievement." --New York Review of Books
"One of the best works on the Holocaust, an absorbing, suspenseful book that transcends by far even the best docudramas on the subject." --Houston Chronicle
"A truly heroic story of the war and, like the tree planted in Oskar Schindler's honor in Jerusalem, a fitting memorial to the fight of one individual against the horror of Nazism." --Simon Wiesenthal
"An astounding story...in this case the truth is far more powerful than anything the imagination could invent." --Newsweek