Riveting & compelling, tells the inspiring story of forty men & women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of nazi persecution & as a ...Riveting & compelling, tells the inspiring story of forty men & women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of nazi persecution & as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation & cruelty--a gripping, visceral story, impossible to put down.