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Isaac's Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland

✍ Scribed by Brzezinski, Matthew

Book ID: 107520055
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Year: 2012
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 1 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780679645306

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✦ Synopsis

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 was just one dramatic episode in a long struggle by a stalwart band of Jewish resistance fighters to liberate Poland from the Nazis, the full story of which has never before been told in book form. With Isaac's Army, Matthew Brzezinski delivers the first-ever comprehensive narrative account of that struggle, following a group of dedicated young Jews--some barely out of their teens--who banded together to form one of the most daring underground movements of World War II.

Based on first-person accounts from diaries, interviews, and surviving relatives, Isaac's Army chronicles the extraordinary triumphs and devastating setbacks that befell the Jewish underground from its earliest acts of defiance in 1939 to the exodus to Palestine in 1946. This is the remarkable true story of the Jewish resistance from the perspective of those who led it: Isaac Zuckerman, the confident and charismatic twenty-four-year-old founder of the...

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