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The Wall

By: John Hersey
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
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Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of 40 men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty - a gripping and visceral story, impossible to pause.

©1950 John Hersey (P)2019 Random House Audio Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Jewish Literary Fiction World Literature

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"Only a true novelist could breathe warmth, compassion, humor, into what a historian would necessarily have pictured as a stark, hopeless, tragic series of events. Only a sensitive novelist could compel us to embark upon such a fearful adventure as this and remain until the end." (The New York Times)

"A searching, heroic story." (The Atlantic)
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Excellent narrator. You can hear the many places that were re-recorded to correct pronunciation but it’s more important to have those corrections. Vivid characters. Based on a real archive that was created to collect the experiences of Jews under increasingly oppressive conditions.

Moving fictional account of the Warsaw ghetto

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The cover mentions that one lives the book not mere read - so true!! I cried.

Amazing novel!

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At first, it was difficult to get into the way it was written. But in time, I couldn’t wait to listen. You grew to love the characters.

The slow truth

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what a great book. I enjoyed reading every minute of it. It was incredibly real listening to the narrative of the ghetto experience.

Awesome

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The author works hard to preserve the ply of the Jews in Poland during the war . The book brings forward what happens when we forget that all man have been made in God’s image.

The reality of antisemitism and racism

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This book, about the Warsaw ghetto (1939 and following) in very well written and very well performed. If not strictly historical it an amazing work of historical fiction, and something everyone who did not live in Warsaw in WWII and the Nazi death camps can profit from.

Fascinating

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my god only a few books make me want to read it again immediately after finishing.

wow

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