Forged in Fury

by Michael Elkins

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345021622
• ISBN13: 9780345021625
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A neglected masterpiece

This book above all, really spelt out to me the bestiality of nazism and the herrenvolk. A horrifying work in its details, particularly as it was published long before Goldhagen.

I couldn't stop reading

Though horrible and shocking, this book shows how the human spirit cannot be surpressed. In spite of an absolute impossibility of success, a small handfull of men kept the spirit of survival and revenge alive during the darkest period in history. While revenge may seem inappropriate in our concept of ideal society, at that time, no other emotion is conceivable! This book very clearly shows how revenge was a natural outgrowth of the horrors of the holocost.

Very accurate

Elkins keeps his work to the point. He does not hide the facts, but tells them as they really were. For a real close look at the holocaust, this book is a perfect read

Made for interesting reading

A very good book that makes you feel the pain that the Jews have felt. To try a turn this around and say look how horrible the Jews are is totally insane. The Jews should be commended on being able to keep a cool head after so long. Any other ethnic group of people who would have experienced this would have carried out equal horrible attrocities upon their oppressors. To whine and say what was mentioned in the book was cowardly is pothetic.

This is a book that has the power to change the way we think

The anguish and utter isolation of the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust is felt in this book as few other works have managed to portray. The utter disbelief by the Jewish victims that the Germans would commit such attrocities against them day after day, month after month and year after year screams out at the reader from the pages of this remarkable book. Michael Elkins writes in white hot rage against an uncaring and conniving world which by looking away encouraged the Germans, and those Europeans who passively and actively collaborated with them, in the systematic slaughter of millions of Jewish men, women and children. Even more memorable are his stories of those few survivors who somehow managed to fight back against the German military might, and came together after the killing was over to avenge the millions of Jewish ghosts who yet hovered over the European hell.