Life in Dark Ages: A Memoir - Hardcover

Pawel, Ernst

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880641681 ISBN 13: 9780880641685

Publisher: Fromm Intl, 1995

Synopsis

In Life in Dark Ages Ernst Pawel tells the intriguing story of his first 30 years.
At the time of the writing, Pawel was dying of lung cancer. He faced his illness with the same mix of candor, humor and anger as he faced fleeing the Nazis from Berlin to Belgrade, where he, a boy of 14, and his Jewish family were tolerated, but hardly welcome. He became part of the Yugoslav underground movement and eventually emigrated to America, where he joined the Army to fight the fascist plague. Disarming and on target, Pawel tells his story curmudgeonly, yet behind his wide open critical eye we come to recognize a deeply humane man whose intelligence was keen, whose love passionate, and whose integrity inspiring.

About this title

From Library Journal

Pawel (The Labyrinth of Exile, LJ 10/1/89) began his memoir when he was diagnosed with lung cancer. After his death, his son wrote the concluding chapter. Born in Germany, Pawel moved with his parents to Belgrade in the early Thirties and then on to the United States in 1938. The years in Belgrade, where he belonged to the Communist and Zionist youth movements, are wonderfully drawn. Recounting his experiences in the U.S. Army in North Africa, Italy, and finally Yugoslavia during World War II, Pawel offers a somber view of our troubled century. But his accounts of his parents, wife, family, and friends are poignant flashes of love in the midst of such bleak reality. Despite the world's evils and the chances we must all take, Pawel lived with joy a life of the spirit and of the mind. A brave and honest book, this is a good addition to any collection.?Gene Shaw, NYPL
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Edition details

• Publisher: Fromm Intl
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0880641681
• ISBN 13: 9780880641685
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268