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|author=Anouk Markovits
|title=I Am Forbidden
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The date is 1939 and the place is what we know as Romania and Hungary. Young Zalman Stern is stopped by soldiers and for a moment he feels this is his last moment on Earth. Meanwhile, not too far away, one moment 5 year old Josef Lichtenstein is playing with his baby sister, the next his childhood is deleted by the same bigotry and blood that deletes her. One day their paths will meet. This is the story of Zalman, Josef, their descendants; their struggles, their beliefs; the cost of escape and the cost of remaining.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571943 </amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=How do you even begin to write a review of a book which expresses trenchant, no-holds-barred opinions on reviewers and the process of being reviewed? But the task is there, so there's nothing for it but to roll up your sleeves, gather your courage and mutter the word with which A L Kennedy regularly signs off from her blog: Onwards.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096974</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cathryn J Prince
|title=Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=There is no pun intended when I describe the ship ''Wilhelm Gustloff'' as stern. It just seems from looking at her hard and rigid lines that if you were to design a ship that the Nazi party would use as an ideological tool, to take their favoured workers on pleasure cruises around the Mediterranean, you would naturally end up with something that looked like her. However fate had it that within years she became a hospital ship, and it wasn't much longer after that that she was stationed in the northern Polish port now known as Gdynia, ready to help in a major evacuation of thousands of desperate, starving and fevered people fleeing the advancing Soviet army. All they wanted to do was to avoid the perilous snowy overland route to get a few miles along the coast, but they weren't to know that within hours of sailing the ''Wilhelm Gustloff'' would be torpedoed, and many thousands would perish in the near-frozen Baltic waters.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023034156X</amazonuk>
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