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	• Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag Janusz Bardach, Kathleen Gleeson University of California Press, 1999 - 408 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

must read for those interested in the holocaust

difficult to use words like "i couldn't put this book down" when the subject matter is so depressing but that was my reaction. reading about the soviet gulags and the human sufferring they caused educated me that it was not only the nazi regime that was the cause of so much sufferring.

Outstanding Narrative

I've read many books on the subject but this one had it all : well-written amazing story with all the details of what he'd seen and felt. A unique narrative of an incredible journey into a reality that everybody should know to not let it happen again.

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A good story.

The author Janusz Bardach plainly is someone who never grew old. Even as he wrote this account in mature years, his experiences were etched so deeply that nothing could remove his young man's point of view. That impression upon the reader, along with Bardach's characteristic way of taking something reinforcing from most every chance event, present him as a very fine and even unique personality.

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Archetype of the American Dream

I grew up in Iowa City around the corner from Dr. Bardach. I delivered his newspaper when I was a kid and used to see him and his wife at local tennis clubs. That's all I knew about him-until I was 30 and my parents were reading his book. When they told me what it was about, I was stunned! I couldn't put the book down. His story is riveting. How on earth does a Polish Jew in WWII go from a hard labor camp in Siberia to being a renowned surgeon at a large teaching hospital in the middle of Iowa? It puts life into perspective and will remind you that anything is possible. Dr. Bardach truly lived the American dream.

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Required reading for humans

I read "Man is Wolf to Man" three years ago, and it haunts me to this day. I had read many accounts of WWII Europe, the Holocaust, and the Gulag, but none so acutely personal and sensitively written as Bardach's. Currently I'm reading "When God Looked the Other Way" by Wesley Adamczyk, a narrative of Polish deportees to the Soviet Union told from a similarly youthful perspective. Historians, soldiers, politicians, and students should place these books at the top of their reading list.

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