![]() ![]() Speaking of twists, this is a children’s book with no child characters. ![]() It is an interesting twist to a story that has been written about ad nuseum. I knew nothing about these soldiers and because the book is lacking any historical notes it is up to the reader to piece together a part of history that is, indeed, foreign to most Americans. ![]() Very little of the action is actually set in Poland but rather follows the characters on their long overland trip. ![]() This omission could be, on the surface, explained away because of the second highly unusual nature of the text, it is a WWII novel that deals with the partisan Polish Soldiers who run away through the Middle East to meet up with the British in what was then called Palestine. It is analogous to writing about the US Civil War with no mention of slavery. This lack of information, the sterilization of history, is deeply disturbing to me. Poland was the Nazi’s killing fields and while the characters mention they don’t want to fight for the Russians or the Germans they never give any reason why. First and most important to me is that the novel, which is set during WWII in the European theater with human protagonists who are Polish soldiers, makes no mention of the Holocaust. My responses to this text deal with three anomalies. ![]()
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