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It might sound as though I've been taking my pleasures too sadly but despite the content I found the book remarkably uplifting. The family members are all positive and there's a genuine lack of bitterness. This is a special book and I'd like to than the publisher for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
Martin deals with what has happened with sensitivity and meticulous research and her family obviously looked to the future. We have reviewed [[The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust by Heather Pringle]] but felt that the author was looking more to retribution than to rebuilding. Thomas Buergenthal has a more positive attitude in [[A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal|A Lucky Child]]. [[Maus by Art Spiegelman]] manages to look at the holocaust in graphic format without trivialising the subject. You might appreciate [[Ruta's Closet by Keith Morgan with Ruth Kron Sigal]], set in Lithuania, but ''War and Love'' is decidedly the better book. For tweens we can recommend [[Then by Morris Gleitzman]].
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