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Bezig met laden... De Brigadedoor Howard Blum
THE WAR ROOM (203) Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Riveting book about the Jewish Brigade, which fought at the end of WW II in the British Army in northern Italy and then spent a year in Europe post-war doing guard duty. But that's not the real story. The Brigade had a different purpose, as planned by the Palestinian Yishuv (the Jewish leadership): they were to train and learn to fight, to prepare for the inevitable War of Independence which eventually came in 1947-48. But these men didn't stop there- once in Europe, they found other, more pressing things to do: a campaign of vengeance against Nazis, a series of missions to rescue Jews from DP camps and smuggle them to Palestine, a plot to steal weapons and send them to the Yishuv. It's an amazing story. The author focuses on three men, Arie Pinchuk, Yohanan Peltz, and Israel Carmi, along with Pinchuk's sister Leah, a Holocaust survivor trying to find her way to her brother and the Promised Land. The book is highly readable, and the subject matter is really compelling. It reminds one that, whatever you think about Israel's current politics, its origin story is truly a man-made miracle. È la fine del 1944 e il conflitto mondiale è ormai a una svolta decisiva. Il governo britannico dopo molte esitazioni autorizza la formazione di una brigata di cinquemila ebrei volontari da inviare in Europa a combattere l'esercito tedesco. Sono agguerriti, addestrati, hanno la stella di David cucita sulla manica dell'uniforme a dimostrazione che gli ebrei non sono soltanto vittime predestinate, ma che sanno rispondere colpo su colpo e vincere. La loro vera battaglia però comincia dopo la resa della Germania, quando alcuni di questi soldati si organizzano in squadre di giustizieri che danno la caccia e uccidono ufficiali nazisti entrati in clandestinità. La ferocia contro cui hanno lottato si impadronisce di loro e rischia di sopraffarli. Poi la furia vendicatrice si placa e subentra la consapevolezza che un'altra missione, più importante, li attende: radunare i tanti piccoli orfani scampati allo sterminio e mandarli in salvo in Palestina. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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November 1944. The British government finally agrees to send a brigade of 5,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine to Europe to fight the German army. But when the war ends and the soldiers witness firsthand the horrors their people have suffered in the concentration camps, the men launch a brutal and calculating campaign of vengeance, forming secret squads to identify, locate, and kill Nazi officers in hiding. Their own ferocity threatens to overwhelm them until a fortuitous encounter with an orphaned girl sets the men on a course of action--rescuing Jewish war orphans and transporting them to Palestine--that will not only change their lives but also help create a nation and forever alter the course of world history. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Interesante saber un poco más sobre esa época y la perspectiva de los judíos.
La realidad es que apenas llegaron a luchar, prácticamente estuvieron al final de la II guerra mundial. Cuando los dejaron ir, ya que no dependía de ellos, pertenecían en cierta manera al ejército del Reino Unido.
Pese a que casi no entraron en batalla, su labor después de la guerra fue más importante que la de luchar. Ayudaron a los judíos que habían sobrevivido, para que pudieran ir a Israel. No fue una tarea fácil, ya que no los dejaban viajar libremente.
Y hay una parte pequeña dedicada a la venganza, que me ha sabido a poco. ( )