Point of No Return - Softcover

Gellhorn, Martha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452262232 ISBN 13: 9780452262232

Publisher: Plume, 1989

Synopsis

Originally published in 1948, this powerful novel follows a U.S. Army infantry battalion in Europe through the last months of the Second World Warâ through the Battle of the Bulge, the Allied sweep across Germany, and the discovery of the Nazi death camps. Jacob Levy, a young soldier from St. Louis, has never given much thought to politics, world affairs, or his own Jewish heritage, but after the liberation of Dachau, he confronts the horror of the Holocaust and takes his own violent revenge. Jolted into a new understanding of humanityâ s connectedness, he comes to terms with his own Jewish identity and grapples with questions of individual moral responsibility that are still contemporary fifty years later.

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In her afterword, Martha Gellhorn traces the roots of the novel in her own experience as a war correspondent who first heard of the Nazi concentration camps during the Spanish Civil War and herself got to Dachau a week after American soldiers discovered the camp at the end of a village street.

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Another in the "Plume American Women Writers" series, this novel (originally titled The Wine of Astonishment ) was released in 1948 and disappeared untilthis paper resurrection. This edition contains a new afterword by the author.-- MR
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Edition details

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452262232
• ISBN 13: 9780452262232
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332