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Clara's War

By: Clara Kramer Stephen Glantz
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ebury Press
ISBN: 0091924405
ISBN-13: 9780091924409
Released: 03 Apr 2008
RRP: £16.99
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A heart wrenching account of one girls second world war struggle - By: Valentine, 04 Apr 2008
I started this book on the bus on the way to work & nearly missed my stop as I was so engrossed! Having said that I was so touched & taken aback by what I was reading that I had to put it down for a few hours to have a bit of an emotional rest!! I finished it last night & I reallly think that's its incredible. Its so beautifully written, in particular I loved the description, this part - "Their lives had been reduced to what could be held in their suitcases. Their faces were blank. They dared not look at the uniformed soldiers with the death's head on their collars who seemed to be everywhere." reallly stood out to me. The depth of description gives the book such a richness.

It feels like a rollercoaster when you're reading, you reallly feel like you're living with them in that hell hole of a bunker & celebrating their good fortunes & literallly holding your breath when the SS are above them. I started the book preparing to hate Beck but I think that he's almost the most humanised character in the whole book.

This is a reallly fantastic book & I can not recommend it highly enough, its going to be an important read for my generation to keep the horrors of the war in our consciousness.