As soon as you set eyes on the front cover, with the striped pyjamas on the barbed wire, you are left in doubt about the theme and seriousness of this story, which tells both the individual and collective tale(s) of nine resistance workers and how they escaped Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
There's also the added poignancy of this being a biographical account written by a relative of one of the nine, and the author's descriptive but sensitive writing style - particularly in the opening few paragraphs of the book - is such that there are times when you could be forgiven for forgetting this is a real story rather than a piece of fiction.
Overall, with the book also broken up with information on how the research into these stories was found, this is another interesting addition to the many pieces of Holocaust Literature that have been published in recent years.
There's also the added poignancy of this being a biographical account written by a relative of one of the nine, and the author's descriptive but sensitive writing style - particularly in the opening few paragraphs of the book - is such that there are times when you could be forgiven for forgetting this is a real story rather than a piece of fiction.
Overall, with the book also broken up with information on how the research into these stories was found, this is another interesting addition to the many pieces of Holocaust Literature that have been published in recent years.