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Summary: One of the best historical fictions I have ever read..
Review: "QB VII" is nothing short of brilliant. Uris pays close attention to detail, engages the reader and the result is a pleasure to read that is impossible to put down. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
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Summary: One of the best historical fictions I have ever read..
Review: "QB VII" is nothing short of brilliant. Uris pays close attention to detail, engages the reader and the result is a pleasure to read that is impossible to put down. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
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Summary: One of my favorites!
Review: A knighted doctor, Adam Kelno. A Pulitzer Prize winning author, Benjamin Cady. Kelno, after leaving the infamous Jadwiga concentration camp where he was imprisoned for years, has spent the last 20 years working with natives in Borneo, for which he received knighthood, and practicing medicine among the poor in London. Cady has written a prize-winning novel, "The Holocaust" concerning the plight of the Jews in German concentation camps during World War II. He lists Dr. Kelno as one of the prisoner doctors that committed horrible medical experiments on Jewish prisoners. Kelno is suing for defamation. Cady is determined to fight.Gripping, horrifying and terribly sad, this novel of a legal battle in England brings back in force the horrors of Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" while questioning everyone's humanity in the face of true evil. Read this book. I recommend it highly.
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Summary: Shocking but great
Review: Although there were few surprises here, the story rings so real and so current that it was a pleasure to read and experience. As usual Leon Uris exercises his gift as storyteller/historian. His wonderful ability to intertwine facts with fictious characters leads to very worthwhile reading. I recommend it highly. If you like great writing and wonderful plot, try this Uris novel along with McCrae's THE CHILDREN'S CORNER. The McCrae is shorter and more compact, but packs a punch!!!!!
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Summary: ...Where you worry your neighbor could be a War criminal
Review: Dr. Kelno, A Polish WWII hero, saved hundreds of poles in the Jadwiga Concentration camp. A conspiracy brought against him by the communist party unsuccessfully charge him as a nazi war criminal. Twenty year later, in "The Holocaust", Kelno is again accused for these crimes and sues the wirter for libel in front of a british court. In front of the Queen's Bench, a lot of memories, pains and acts of heroism will be brought back to life...Is the good doctor a victim, a murderer or maybe a little bit of both... This is a well constructed book. Until far into the book you wonder who is right and who is wrong. Faithfull to his great talent for making his characters seem real, Uris brings us the exemplary life of Kelno and the tormented life of the Author, Abraham Cady. Never has the horror of concentration camp been displayed with such passion, not, like in a lot of books, as statistics but as human beings suffering way past the gate of the camps. The paramount comes from the fact they are in a British courtroom where displays of love anger or pity are prohibited. Some of the rhetoric and diplomatic mambo-jumbo displayed by the lawyers and the judge to hide the horror described in the courtroom are just crowning this jewel of a book. Mr. Uris, may you live for a thousand years and write a book every month for I was seaten in this courtroom, following the barristers strategy, sobbing for the victims...praying for a fair verdict. Case Close.
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Summary: Gripping Novel
Review: Excellent book. I found it hard to put down. The author holds our attention for the four hundred plus pages. Rather than give a synopsis of the book as other reviews have, I thought I would mention that this book was the basis for a six hour mini-series on TV. years ago. As I remember it, it was the
FIRST such mini-series that TV had produced. Dr. Kelno was played by Anthony Hopkins. If you have not read this -- read it.
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Summary: Gripping Novel
Review: Excellent book. I found it hard to put down. The author holds our attention for the four hundred plus pages. Rather than give a synopsis of the book as other reviews have, I thought I would mention that this book was the basis for a six hour mini-series on TV. years ago. As I remember it, it was the
FIRST such mini-series that TV had produced. Dr. Kelno was played by Anthony Hopkins. If you have not read this -- read it.
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Summary: The holocaust relived and remembered...
Review: I found hard to put down this horrific and gut wrenching account of the Holocaust as told by the author through the fictional characters he has based on death camp survivors.The story itself is fiction based on fact and you soon realise that many of the characters are based on real people.When an eminent London surgeon sues an american author for defamation in one of his books the stage is set for the former victims of nazi experiments to have their say,albeit 20 years later and within that bastion of civil rectitude,an english courtroom.I found much of the testimony of the survivors very moving and that moved me to tears.These awful things really happpened and sadly are still happening...somewhere.I pitied the main character Adam Keino but could not sympathise with him.The verdict at the end was a surprise and justified.
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Summary: Qb VII
Review: I have read many books, news stories on the holocaust. Try as I might, I cannot get my "hands around it" and also cannot bear to watch any more movies on the topic. I feel like a moth around a flame as I cannot resist the topic but I get burned every time that I engage it. The time period in the book and when it was written fascinates me since the people written in it were alive to experience this horrible event. Not only were they alive but mostly they were in the prime of their lives. This is in comparison to today where that generation is passing on quickly. What bothers me most is that Nazi criminals (probably numbering in the millions) were allowed/desired (along with the entire country) to forget about their past from 1945 for about 50 years. Why not bury the past? Isn't it easier to hide and forget about it? The reason that I give this book 3 stars rather than 4 or 5 is because the author could have used real names and people. Why make up individuals, situations or places when the real deal existed? Was Uris afraid to offend a Nazi war criminal? Country? Another reason is that the whole basis for the trial doesn't make sense to me. It's a real stretch to believe it would take place.
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Summary: Qb VII
Review: I have read many books, news stories on the holocaust. Try as I might, I cannot get my "hands around it" and also cannot bear to watch any more movies on the topic. I feel like a moth around a flame as I cannot resist the topic but I get burned every time that I engage it. The time period in the book and when it was written fascinates me since the people written in it were alive to experience this horrible event. Not only were they alive but mostly they were in the prime of their lives. This is in comparison to today where that generation is passing on quickly. What bothers me most is that Nazi criminals (probably numbering in the millions) were allowed/desired (along with the entire country) to forget about their past from 1945 for about 50 years. Why not bury the past? Isn't it easier to hide and forget about it? The reason that I give this book 3 stars rather than 4 or 5 is because the author could have used real names and people. Why make up individuals, situations or places when the real deal existed? Was Uris afraid to offend a Nazi war criminal? Country? Another reason is that the whole basis for the trial doesn't make sense to me. It's a real stretch to believe it would take place.
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