Reviews Written By: Mariano Vassalluzzoprovided by our partners at Amazon.com |
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 | Crowds and Power | |
 | "MASTERPIECE" | 2005-12-06 |
| In this essay you will explore the turns and bends, ins and outs, of the mind of one of the most transcendental writers of the twentieth century. He will tell you -without sparing any concept, any idea, any word- his vision of the nature of human beings and their relations. It is a penetrating perspective. Very original. And harsh. Read the book to its very last page. The way you appreciate the world, your world, will never, ever, be the same. | ||
 | Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter: Critical Essays | |
 | "Good Account. Not a great book." | 2005-12-06 |
| The author is sincere and spontaneous in telling his personal experience. The description of events, places and facts is also very well. But from the very beggining it is clear that the author is not a writer (or, at least, not a good one.) I am convinced that it is not only a plain true story what captivates the reader but, more than anything else, the way it is told. This book is a good example of that difference. Nevertheless, an applause for Simha Rotem, an extraordinary human being that not only fought hard to survive himself, but also to save the life of others. | ||
 | Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943 | |
| "A human disaster of epic proportions told by an excellent writer." | 2005-08-18 |
| Not just history, not just a novel. What a book! Simply one of the best ones I ever read, period. | ||
 | The Fall of Berlin 1945 | |
| "Beevor makes it again!" | 2005-08-18 |
| Once again Antony Beevor makes a Marvellous Job. A must for anyone interested not only in the eastern front of WWII or the collapse of the nazi regime, but also for the one who wants to learn, by real facts, what the human herds are capable of when they are drived by an explosive mix of hatred, ingorance, fear, desire of revenge and lack of rules. Despite I highly recommend this book, it is fair to say that "Stalingrad" -Beevor's masterpiece, in my opinion- is better told in the sense that it can be read entirely like a literature novel. I do not mean by this that "The fall of Berlin" is a classic book of history. Thus, Beevor's magic talent to tell us history in the most bizarre and interesting way has not diminished in this work by a bit. (Tip for the potential reader: Try to read "Stalingrad" before this one.) | ||
 | Art of Creative Writing | |
| "An exciting journey into human nature." | 2005-07-06 |
| This book should be a must not only for any writer who wants to succeed in the quest of character description, but also for the reader who feels that human behaviour is an intriguing topic. | ||
 | In Hitler's Bunker : Bedlam at the Twilight of the Third Reich | |
| "Shocking and Intense account of the Madness of War." | 2005-06-14 |
| Armin was 16 years old when he started serving as a military mailman under the orders of Artur Axmann, a fanatic nazi who was the Reich Youth Leader and was very close to Hitler, during the last days of the Nazi Regime in Berlin. Armin's trivial military position in that crucial historic moment made him an outstanding witness of the wild frezny lived in Hitler's Bunker, the surroundings of the Wilhelmstrasse and the outskirts of Berlin immediately before the Russian occupation of the Nazi captital. The author makes a lively, absorbing and shocking account of how he and his friend Hannes, another young military mailman, drove in a motorcycle around the streets of Berlin in order to deliver the last military messages of the Nazi leadership to the front lines (or what was left of them). During this description, Armin makes a wonderful job by transmiting the sense of confusion, terror and misery he and Hannes felt in the battle zones, the same feelings any private or civilian must have felt in any combat zone during those crazy times. He combines this lively account of his personal struggle with the events occurring inside Hitler's Bunker. I will not anticipate what were Hitler, the Goebbles and other nazi authorities doing in that "comfortable shelter" during those last days, but be prepared for some real-life insane behaviours! I believe the combination of Armin's personal experiencies in the war, with the not less astonishing history inside Hitler's Bunker, is what makes this book so intense and dynamic. More than once, you will experience a kind of dreadful, intolerable pitty for the Nazi Party Bastards who were all of the sudden a revealing a human, and sometimes even compassionate, side. | ||
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