The Death Brigade

Autobiography of a Jewish survivor of the Nazi regime in Poland.

Autobiography of a Jewish survivor of the Nazi regime in Poland.

When U.S. ground troops launch an offensive against VC-controlled territory throughout the Annamitique Mountains on the border of Cambodia, thousands die because Charlie controls a mountaintop fire support base. The First Air Cavalry must turn the bloody defeat into victory.

The Janowska Road is a moving account of Jewish life during the Holocaust, and recounts the author's experiences in Lvov, Poland, from 1941-1945. Most of that time was spent as a prisoner in the Janowska concentration camp, where the author survived by becoming a member of a "Death Brigade", charged with reducing the bodies of internees to ash.

Treasury of verse by the great Victorian poet includes the famous long narrative poem, Enoch Arden, plus "The Lady of Shalott," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "Break, break, break," "Flower in the crannied Wall" and more. Also included are excerpts from three longer works: The Princess, "Maud" and "The Brook."

Many books focus on issues of Holocaust representation, but few address why the Holocaust in particular poses such a representational problem. David Patterson draws from Emmanuel Levinas's contention that the Good cannot be represented. He argues that the assault on the Good is equally nonrepresentable and this nonrepresentable aspect of the Holocaust is its distinguishing feature. Utilizing Jewish religious thought, Patterson examines how the literary word expresses the ineffable and how the photographic image manifests the invisible. Where the Holocaust is concerned, representation is a matter not of imagination but of ethical implication, not of what it was like but of what must be done. Ultimately Patterson provides a deeper understanding of why the Holocaust itself is indefinable—not only as an evil but also as a fundamental assault on the very categories of good and evil affirmed over centuries of Jewish teaching and testimony.