This is one of those snow-tipped fairytales that feature in my winter dreams, effortlessly combining magic, history, and the northern reaches of Russia where the winters are long, the forests are primeval, and life is enchanted.
Tag: Read the World
Leningrad | WWII
During the three-year siege, about 800,000 people died. That’s nearly the entire population of the Salt Lake Valley or San Francisco.
Read the World Wrap-Up | Poland
Poland is an embodiment of the indomitability of the human spirit.
The Zookeeper’s Wife | WWII
Human compassion and love overcomes the worst sort of circumstances, bridging the divide of religion, race, and country.
Poland: A History | Poland
The Poles are a surprisingly resilient people, weathering adversity and powering through the storms of history.
The Doll | Poland
I didn’t see this book as a failure of the class system, I saw it as a triumph over it.
Poland: A Novel | Poland
The enmity between Germany and Poland and Russia and Poland isn’t a 20th century thing. It’s been going on for centuries.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas | WWII
This book was horrifying in some ways and beautiful in others. In the end, it described war as something that engulfs all, not just adults, not just Jews, not just Nazis. It destroys everything.
Auschwitz | WWII
Every person should read this book because darkness needs to have a light shined on it; it should be acknowledged and discussed and known.
Escape from Warsaw | WWII
This book was about what love and forgiveness can accomplish, about how it can rebuild. There’s good out there even within the depths of evil.
Read the World Wrap-Up | Greece
I had no idea how deeply love of freedom is ingrained into the Western psyche thanks to the Greeks. For that alone, their heroism and humanity, I give them thanks.
Greece: A History | Greece
There’s something beautifully tragic about Greece—foreshadowed in the work of Euripides or Sophocles—that’s both enchanting and sad.
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