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Author: Wendy Holden ,
Elizabeth Wiley
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
Edition: Library Edition
ISBN: 9781665279321
ISBN 10: 166527932
Publication Date: 31 January 2017
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
An astonishing and deeply moving work.-- Booklist Starred Review Born Survivors, is exceptionally fresh history, a work of prodigious original research, written with zealous empathy. -- New York Times An astonishing and deeply moving work...with remarkable detail gleaned from a wealth of research. -- Booklist (starred review) Even though it occurred more than seventy years ago, the story's truth is so chillingly portrayed that it seems as if it could have happened recently...An engrossing, intense, and highly descriptive narrative. -- Kirkus Reviews Holden's triple biography is packed with enough contextual information to qualify as a history lesson but makes its impression as a tale of undeniable courage and astonishing love in the face of incredible cruelty and evil. -- Contra Costa Times Packed with harrowing detail and impressively well-researched...[An] intense, powerful, and moving...testament to these three women and the miraculous survival of their children. -- Jewish Chronicle
"An astonishing and deeply moving work.-- ""Booklist Starred Review"" ""Born Survivors, is exceptionally fresh history, a work of prodigious original research, written with zealous empathy."" -- "" New York Times"" ""An astonishing and deeply moving work...with remarkable detail gleaned from a wealth of research."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""Even though it occurred more than seventy years ago, the story's truth is so chillingly portrayed that it seems as if it could have happened recently...An engrossing, intense, and highly descriptive narrative."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""Holden's triple biography is packed with enough contextual information to qualify as a history lesson but makes its impression as a tale of undeniable courage and astonishing love in the face of incredible cruelty and evil."" -- ""Contra Costa Times"" ""Packed with harrowing detail and impressively well-researched...[An] intense, powerful, and moving...testament to these three women and the miraculous survival of their children."" -- ""Jewish Chronicle"""
Author Information
Wendy Holden is a successful journalist and fiction author. Born in Yorkshire, England, she studied English at Cambridge before becoming an editor for publications such as the Sunday Telegraph magazine, the Sunday Times style section, Apollo, and Tatler. She has written a number of books, including Gallery Girl, Marrying Up, Filthy Rich, Bad Heir Day, and others. Elizabeth Wiley, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, is a seasoned actor, dialect coach, and theater professor. In addition to her growing portfolio of audiobooks, her voice can be heard in The Idea of America, Colonial Williamsburg's virtual learning curriculum; in Paul Meier's e-textbook Speaking Shakespeare; and modeling US-English on one of the world's top language-learning products.
