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Title: Point of No Return by Martha Gellhorn ISBN: 0-8032-7051-8 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: A wonderful WWII novel by an unsung writer.
Comment: For far too long, Martha Gellhorn's single claim to fame has been as "one of Hemingway's wives." Thanks to a recent article in The New Yorker, I have had the joy of "rediscovering"a wonderful author and journalist in her own right.
Point of No Return is a riveting, often graphic, war novel centered around a young Jewish American protagonist,Jacob Levy and his experiences during the closing months of WWII. The novel follows Jacob's battalion through France, Luxembourg, and finally Germany. During the liberation of Luxembourg, Jacob meets a young local woman and they try, as best they can, to have a relationship despite the language barrier and the constant problems caused by the war itself.
The climax of the book occurs when Jacob discovers,via a god awful tour of the recently liberated Dachau, the realities of the Holocaust firsthand. He is so overcome with horror and fury that he takes his own personal revenge, despite the fact the war has ended. The remainder of the book deals with the aftermath of his actions and how he comes to terms with them.
Perhaps most moving of all is Gellhorn's "Afterword" which discusses why she wrote the novel and the full significance of its title.
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Title: Travels With Myself and Another: A Memoir by Martha Gellhorn ISBN: 1585420905 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 03 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The View from the Ground by Martha Gellhorn ISBN: 0871132125 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Face of War by Martha Gellhorn ISBN: 0871132117 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life by Caroline Moorehead ISBN: 0805065539 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: American Diplomacy by George Frost Kennan ISBN: 0226431479 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: March, 1985 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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