All That I Am

Thank you for posting your thoughts and thanks for interesting perspective. We are also thrilled to see you recommend the Book Thief, as it is an exceptional book, a title that really is not comparable to any other book.

Another great review and another book that i also liked a lot. You are right in noting that this is a bit of the different perspective on the World War II as it is told by a German who fought against the Nazis. I have heard some people criticizing this book and noting that it should have been non fiction but I think that as a non fiction it would have been a completely different story. The message of our responsibility to care for these kind of stories would have been lost, as would the message that even non heroic people can have a very important role to play in history. I really thought that it was an excellent read. For the German perspective I also strongly recommend Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada, a German writer living at the time of World War II. I think that he has a few other titles but Alone in Berlin is the only one that I have read to date. It is an extraordinary story of an ordinary man who decided to voice his opposition in a pretty unusual way and he managed to do so for a number of years. This novel is based on true events and people and at times it reads like a thriller, really good!