"Day 264
It's morning. Soft gray light slips over the tall redbrick wall. It stretches across the exercise yard and reaches through the high barred windows. In a cell on the ground floor, the light shifts dark shapes into a small stool, a scrawney table, and a bed made of wooden boards with no mattress or blanket. On that bed, a thin, huddled figure, Helmuth, a boy of seventeen, lies awake. Shivering. Trembling.
It's a Tuesday.
The executioner works on Tuesday."
MY RATING 10/10
The fact that this book is based highly on a true story plays a factor in my rating. I loved the way that Susan Bartoletti told Helmuth's story. She did have to assume make up some parts as Helmuth's last days were not known. But she worked with Helmuth's brother and his friends. I think that's something every Author that writes a story based a true person and story, should do. She impressed me with her descriptions of the area and she actually went to Hamburg and checked out the prison and his home town. That's pretty awesome.
I really did believe for a while that Helmuth had left this all behind. How his finally story was to be written. That's how great of a job she did. All and all I loved it!
THANK YOU SUSAN CAMPBELL BARTOLETTI FOR SHOWING WORLD WAR 2 FROM ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW!
Hope you enjoyed guys... and ladies :D
Love,
Sidny♥♪♫
I really want to read this book. It sounds like an amazing story. I haven't read anything else by her but from the books I've looked at by her are mostly about World War II. I agree that Authors should work with the people involved with their lives because it puts a true to the person feel to the book.
ReplyDeleteI should correct myself, her books are mostly historical. my train of thought left the station and got off at the wrong stop.
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts seem to do the same daily. Thank you reassuringsmile.. whoever you are :P.
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