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Overall rating: 0, votes: 0 | | Schindler's Ark | | Genre: | Историческая литература | | Published: | 1982 | | Popularity: | 17 | | Language: | Английский | Winner of the Booker Prize
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction
Schindler’s Ark (Schindler’s List in USA) is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers.
Working with the actual testimony of Schindler’s Jews, Thomas Keneally artfully depicts the courage and shrewdness of an unlikely savior, a man who is a flawed mixture of hedonism and decency and who, in the presence of unutterable evil, transcends the limits of his own humanity.
From Publishers Weekly
A mesmerizing novel based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German industralist who saved and succored more than 1000 Jews from the Nazis at enormous financial and emotional expense.
From Library Journal
How the German Oskar Schindler came to save more than one thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust is one of the most fascinating stories of the century. Although millions are now learning about Schindler through Steven Spielberg’s recent Academy Award-winning film, his achievement first gained prominence with Keneally’s 1982 “facticious” novel (which is also the basis for the film). Keneally’s account is less melodramatic than the motion picture, and although he does not fully explain how a hedonistic German could have been so altered by the plight of the Jewish workers in his factory, he does make Schindler less enigmatic than the big-screen version. Ben Kingsley, one of the film's stars, reads in a calculatedly matter-of-fact tone, letting the story's power alone convey its complicated emotions. Highly recommended. |
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Download Overall rating: 4, votes: 2 | | Список Шиндлера | | Genre: | Историческая литература | | Published: | 1982 | | Popularity: | 256 | | Language: | Русский | Действие романа основано на истинных событиях, происходивших в оккупированной Польше во время Второй мировой войны. Немецкий промышленник Оскар Шиндлер в одиночку спас от смерти в газовых камерах больше людей, чем кто-либо за всю историю войны. Но это не история войны, это – история личности, нашедшей в себе мужество противостоять бесчеловечному государственному аппарату насилия.
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Download Overall rating: 0, votes: 0 | | A River Town | | Genre: | Историческая литература | | Published: | 2011 | | Popularity: | 16 | | Language: | Английский | | Fleeing to Australia to escape the repressive life of British-controlled Ireland, Tim Shea is alarmed by his new home's equally stifling social order and its inclination towards prejudice. By the author of Schindler's List. |
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Download Overall rating: 0, votes: 0 | | The Daughters of Mars | | Genre: | Историческая литература | | Published: | 2013 | | Popularity: | 17 | | Language: | Английский | From the acclaimed author of Schindler’s List, the epic, unforgettable story of two sisters from Australia, both trained nurses, whose lives are transformed by the cataclysm of the first World War.
In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father’s farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Used to tending the sick as they are, nothing could have prepared them for what they confront, first near Gallipoli, then on the Western Front.
Yet amid the carnage, Naomi and Sally Durance become the friends they never were at home and find themselves courageous in the face of extreme danger, as well as the hostility they encounter from some on their own side. There is great bravery, humor, and compassion, too, and the inspiring example of the remarkable women they serve alongside. In France, where Naomi nurses in a hospital set up by the eccentric Lady Tarlton while Sally works in a casualty clearing station, each meets an exceptional man: the kind of men for whom they might give up some of their precious independence—if only they all survive.
At once vast in scope and extraordinarily intimate, The Daughters of Mars brings World War I to vivid, concrete life from an unusual perspective. A searing and profoundly moving tale, it pays tribute to men and women of extraordinary moral resilience, even in the face of the incomprehensible horrors of modern war. |
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