Two Brothers

This book should be added to the school curriculum. It's amazing - a totally human story of how normal life is changed by evil. It's different to other accounts of being Jewish in the Third Reich but I can't quite put my finger on why... I think it's the way they author writes (I'm a fan of Ben Elto......more

I'm really not sure what I think about this book so I'm going bang splat in the middle with 3 stars. To start I'm a huge fan of Ben Elton, I adore a lot of his books. I enjoyed this book as it focuses a lot on the time period leading up to WW2 which I found super interesting, the Olympics, the inflati......more

I'd give this book 10 stars if I could! What an amazing, amazing story. And the tension! I spent half the book wondering who Stone was (Otto or Paulus) and when I finally found out I spent the other half of the book wondering what had happened to the other! My heart bled for Frieda, so courageous an......more

Kiek daug kūrinių esu perskaičiusi apie Holokaustą ir galvojau, kad šis niekuo nesiskirs, niekuo nenustebins, bet kaip klydau. Autorius šiek tiek rėmėsi savo šeimos istorija. Pradžia nebuvo tokia įdomi, bet po truputį kūrinys įsibėgėjo ir įgavo pagreitį. Ne tik neįprasti ir nešabloniški veikėjai, be......more

Ive been reading WWII fiction for as long as I can remember, so we can say that my standards are fairly high - I'm not an specialist or whatever, but after a while you need to feel the history flooding through the book, otherwise it won't wotk out. However, it took me a couple of hours to write this......more