The compelling story of the only concentration camp for women by the acclaimed author of A LIFE IN SECRETS.
Sarah Helm was a reporter on the Sunday Times and Diplomatic Editor for the Independent before becoming Jerusalem and then Brussels correspondent for the same paper. A Life in Secrets was her first book.
Compelling . . . [Helm] has painstakingly sought out many survivors
and talked to them herself. The results are devastating . . .What
one is left with at the end of this momentous book is a sense of
the power of human nature, both for good and evil
*Independent on Sunday*
A profoundly moving chronicle
*Observer*
An epic feat of scholarly investigation
*Spectator*
Where Helm's history excels is in her refusal to reduce any of the
people in her history to stereotypes. Complexity is respected. She
pays attention to the specificities of people's lives, including
their religious beliefs, political aspirations and dreams. Even
when discussing brutal female guards, Helm avoids demonisation
*Telegraph*
Helm has done us all a great service in this compelling,
magisterial volume . . . Read this book. Be appalled. Be moved. And
be angry that so little action was taken to help, or to remember,
until it was nearly too late. Read it, and weep
*Jewish Chronicle*
A sense of urgency infuses this history, which comes just in time
to gather the testimony of the camp's survivors . . . meticulous,
unblinking . . . [Helm's] book comes not a moment too soon
*The Economist*
Splendidly researched and tremendously moving . . . Helm's book,
based in part on interviews with survivors, is a model of
sensitivity and seriousness
*Sunday Times*
Sarah Helm's momentous uncovering of Ravensbruck
*Guardian*
A groundbreaking chronicle
*Telegraph*
It not only fills a gap in Holocaust history but it is an utterly
compelling read
*History Today*
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