Apologies for the sarcasm :redface2: and understand your points.
The reason I like the Gilbert book is because a lot of it is based on and uses accounts of survivors; a good portion of it is oral history, which gives it an immediacy.
I found The Lost a fascinating book because the author has an uncanny resemblance to his long lost great Uncle. There were several brothers (as I recall) who moved to the United States. However, one brother decided he liked it better in Poland and moved back, a fatal mistake in retrospect. He starts out the book by detailing how his relatives when he visited them in Florida would remark how much he looked like his great Uncle and the book moves on from there. The book reads a lot like a detective story as he tries to find out how exactly his great Uncle and Aunt and their four daughters died. His search takes him to Australia, California and the Ukraine until he finally finds out. I lent the book out to someone but never got it back and am now in the process of re-purchasing it; I want to read it again.
Brad
