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Historical-fiction-and-non-fiction library-books read-for-schoolĪ fascinating, emotionally charged tale of the horrors, sorrows and anguish experienced by Denis Avey’s and his time in World War II, being captured by the Germans and the difference between the POW’s and the Jews in Auschwitz. If you want to read a story about someone helping the jewish, it is an amazing book. If you want to know more about Auschwitz And how the Jewish survived there, This is not a good book. But not 'a man who went to Auschwitz And pretended to be a Jewish' cause That's not where it is about, it is about a soldier fighting in world war two who was sent to Auschwitz as a soldier And has to work with the Jewish, not as One. To discribe This book, you can use the words 'desert', 'British soldiers'.

I think the book has a wrong title And a wrong plot.

The book was good but it goed you an idea about soldiers in world war two And not really about the jewish. About This experience, he wrote ten pages And That was it. When Denis' finally arrived in Auschwitz, I discovered That he only pretended to be jewish for 2nights. But more than 50 pages was about the desert. Before I start reading, I expected That the story was going to be about Auschwitz. P.S - After completing my review, I felt really bad, it sounded so negative, so I decided to google the book, just to see if anyone else felt the same way that I did, and I discovered that there has been a fair amount of controversy regarding the legitimacy of the author’s claims, and sadly I have to agree with those concerns. However, for me, this is not one of those accounts, in fact something about it just doesn’t ring true. There are many moving accounts from those who survived places like Auschwitz, and the horror and brutality that they suffered,( both mental and physical ), can only be imagined. This is definitely not the case for Mr Avey, and he comes across as very self serving. That in itself makes me question just how much of this account is true - surely during any armed conflict, you are part of a unit, carrying out ops together in the company of your battalion, and on the orders of your commanding officer. Unfortunately the author comes across as quite arrogant, and most of his ‘escapades’ appear to have been experienced only by himself, with no one to corroborate his many stories. It turns out that this swap was for a total of two nights, and covered just a tiny portion of the book, and whilst this appears an admirable thing to do, I do think that the title is something of a misrepresentation. I do realise that all these hard fought battles are valid in contributing to the outcome of World War II, but the title indicates that it’s about someone swapping places with a Jewish prisoner of war and entering Auschwitz concentration camp. This book wasn’t quite what I was expecting as a fair chunk of it related to battles fought in the desert.