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"The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity" is a profoundly moving
historical book by renowned historian Sir Martin Gilbert. It chronicles the
harrowing true stories of 732 young Jewish survivors of Nazi concentration
camps, ghettos, and death marches who found refuge in Britain after World War
II.
Despite being robbed of their childhoods and witnessing unspeakable horror.
They formed a famously tight-knit community in England. Arriving in August 1945
they banded together, the first of 732 child survivors of the
Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a
tightly knit group of friends whose terrible shared experience is almost beyond
imagining.
This is their story, which begins in the lost communities
of pre-World War II central Europe, moves through ghetto, concentration camp
and death march, to liberation, survival, and finally, fifty years later, a
deeply moving reunion. Martin Gilbert has brought together the recollections of
this remarkable group of survivors to tell their astonishing stories.
REVIEWS:
A masterpiece of decency, courage and joy ... superb - DAILY
TELEGRAPH
Impossible to put down ... This is a book about coming
out of hell, about great evil, about the triumph of the human spirit, and about
the great goodness on the part of those who helped. One is left with hope, and
admiration - THE TIMES
A story of human resilience, fortitude and victory that
restores the readers' hope for mankind - SUNDAY TIMES
He doesn't hide the dark side of the stories: he does
stress the resilience of their humanity. It's amazing and true - NEW
STATESMAN
This is an important book ... [an] appalling and
wonderful account of efficiently administered savagery, and how a few of its
victims with extraordinary courage, resilience and luck, managed to salvage
their humanity – SPECTATOR
It is only when you read individual stories like these
that you can come anywhere near grasping the full enormity of the events - FINANCIAL
TIMES
A moving mosaic comprising the voices of the young
refugees, setting this against eye-witness accounts of the European experience
... The scope is vast. Research at its best - TIME OUT
Martin Gilbert is to be congratulated on producing a
masterly and deeply moving tribute to those who had the courage and luck to
survive LITERARY REVIEW
A story of human resilience, fortitude and victory
that restores the readers' hope for mankind SUNDAY TIMES
This is the story of human beings sucked into a
vortex of destruction in which family, identity, religion and culture were all
ripped away. A sense of near-miraculous calm descends when the Boys finally
arrive in Britain, when human fortitude finally prevails over absolute evil --
David Cesarani TLS
He doesn't hide the dark side of the stories: he
does stress the resilience of their humanity. It's amazing and true
Martin
Gilert is to be congratulated on producing a masterly and deeply moving tribute
to those who had the courage and luck to survive LITERARY REVIEW
A story of human resilience, fortitude and victory
that restores the readers' hope for mankind SUNDAY TIMES
A series of testimonials to endurance and
resourcefulness DAILY TELEGRAPH
Assembled by one of the period's premier
historians ... A uniquely effective addition to Holocaust literature KIRKUS
Martin Gilbert has given us yet another
indispensable work A moving mosaic comprising the voices of the young refugees,
setting this against eye-witness accounts of the European experience ... The
scope is vast. Research at its best. The Boys: The Story
of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors TLS
ARTHOR: SIR MARTIN GILBERT CBE FRSL (25 October 1936 – 3
February 2015) was a British historian and honorary Fellow o Merton
College, Oxford. He was the author of 88 books, including works on Winston
Churchill, the 20th century, and Jewish history including the Holocaust.
He was a member of the Chilcot Inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq War.
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London. Plasticoated
Hardcover 240mm x 160mm. 511pages. Index. Black & white photographs. ISBN: 0297816381.
Weight: 1100g.