A Light in the Darkness by Albert Marrin

Throughout, Marrin draws readers into the Warsaw Ghetto. He contrasts this with Adolf Hitler's life and his ideology of children: that children are nothing more than tools of the state. Marrin examines not just Janusz Korczak's life but his ideology ofĬhildren: that children are valuable in and of themselves, as He turned down multiple opportunities for escape, standing by theĬhildren in his orphanage as they became confined to the Warsaw Ghetto.ĭressing them in their Sabbath finest, he led their march to the trainsĪnd ultimately perished with his children in Treblinka. Korczak was also a Polish Jew on the eve of World War People today.' Korczak was a man ahead of his time, whose work He famously said that 'children are not the people of tomorrow, but Spock of hisĭay, he established orphanages run on his principle of honoringĬhildren and shared his ideas with the public in books and on the radio. Korczak, the heroic Polish Jewish doctor who devoted his life toĬhildren, perishing with them in the Holocaust. A great book that takes a look at an aspect of World War II that isn't well known. The documentation of the book is thorough, with notes on each chapter, a bibliography, and an index. The photographs were excellent and a nice complement to the text. It's clear that the research that went into the book was immense. The personal stories interspersed through the book were especially compelling. A book like this could be very dry, but it isn't, and I moved through it rather quickly. For such a text-heavy, lengthy book, I found it to be a compelling, interesting story. The different units, their responsibilities, training, and missions are all presented in a very readable way. Wein does a remarkable job pulling together a lot of disparate parts of the story. She traces the general history of the three female units created by Marina Raskova and the Soviet military, but she also includes specific experiences and histories of some of the different women who were part of the experiment. The amount of detail that Wein includes is astounding. This well-written account of the women who flew in combat for the Soviet Union during World War II was fascinating to me. Their country, and the woman who brought them together in the sky. Story of a thousand young women who wanted to take flight to defend Raskova’s three regiments, women who enlisted and were deployed on theįront lines of battle as navigators, pilots, and mechanics. Some of these young women perished in flames. Witches”-faced intense pressure and obstacles both in the sky and on the Including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment-nicknamed the “night Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments, The Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots The early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made The true story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II All opinions expressed are solely my own.

A Light in the Darkness by Albert Marrin