A Different World...A Different War
I've got something on my mind this afternoon and thought I'd do a quick blog about it. Curious what you all think. Looking at the arts - literature and film - there is an endless fascination and countless stories to be told about the years surrounding World War I and World War II, particularly, I think, World War II. Seventy and 100 years later there are still new books and movies coming out every year. Right now I'm reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, which tells the story of a young girl in Nazi Germany. I also read City of Thieves by Daniel Benioff this year, which is about the siege of Leningrad during World War II. Tatiana de Rosnay's book Sarah's Key is a haunting story about a Jewish family in Nazi-occupied France, which I read when I was still living in Germany. And one of my all-time favorite books is Corrie Ten Boom's The Hiding Place , which tells the true story of Corrie's family hiding Jews in their Netherland's home during W