Fat Chicks Rule!: How To Survive In A Thin-centric World

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"I can't wait for this book!"-Marilyn Wann, author of FAT! SO?

A fun, fact-filled guide to living the big girl's life with style, Fat Chicks Rule!: How To Survive in a Thin-Centric World, tackles the weighty issues that large women face in our thin-obsessed society. This lavishly illustrated book provides information on everything that the plus-size woman needs to know, including where to shop, the dieting scam, how to be fat and sexy, the fat acceptance movement, famous fat chicks in history, fat chick entertainment, snappy comebacks against the fat-phobic and much more. Dedicated to every woman who feels she needs to lose a few pounds but really doesn't, Fat Chicks Rule! shows you how to live fat and happily ever after.

Lara Frater is a New York City-based fat acceptance activist.

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Fat chicks Rule!.......2006-05-03

I picked up Lara Frater's wonderful book and I'm so happy I did. This is a great book for the fat chick. It's filled with awesome advice and info.

THIS BOOK ROCKS!.......2005-07-26

Round. Plump. Zaftig. It doesn't matter what word you use, they all mean "fat." And it's beautiful. That's the message from Lara Frater in her new book, "Fat Chicks Rule." LF doesn't apologize for being on the heavy side and neither, she says, should any woman (or man) who's in the same general size category. Fat is fun. It's cool. It's a survival asset in more cultures and at more historical periods than anyone at the New England Journal of Medicine is ever going to admit. LF gives tons of information about the history of fat, the history of women, background on why the medical profession is not necessarily your friend, as well as advice on tips that makes it a little simpler for fat chicks to work, shop, play and travel. Most importantly, she tells her readers that as long as they eat well, exercise, and let common sense dictate their impulses to lose weight (rather than the billion dollar diet industry), they'll probably do just fine. I picked this book up on a tip from a friend at work (we're all on the heavy side) and I was amazed and excited to read a message that finally made sense to me after having heard the same recycled dogma from doctors, the government, and other so-called "professional" health experts who were obviously more interested in selling their own "health products" than my health. This book is a gem!

Fat Chicks Rock!!.......2005-07-15

We had a chance to read Lara Frater's "Fat Chicks Rule!" When I asked Liza what she thought, she simply replied, "This is every woman's story..."

Lara talks of her "thin voice" - you know the one that promises you friends, romance, success, beauty - if you could only lose some weight. The same little voice the drives us back to the roller coaster world of dieting. And then one day, she stepped off the ride, and began to live her life . . .

And she wants the reader to live too! She wants them to reclaim their bodies from the diet industry and from media stereotypes of beauty. The writer takes the reader on a how to journey of Ruling as a Fat Chick!!

Fat Chicks Rule! is a great resource for everything the Fat Chick needs to live her life fully. Need a role model? Check out Fat Chicks in history or famous entertainers. Lara has done her homework; a practical guide covering everything from size-positive movies to shopping tips to dare we say it? Yes folks, SEX!! It's all there and more.

Even witty comebacks for those insensitive remarks. . . My favorite being, "There's a thin person inside you." "That's because thin people are so tasty!"

So, if you need some advice, looking for a place to shop, or need a little boost in the self-esteem department - check out "Fat Chicks Rule!"

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Soccer Chick Rules
Dawn FitzGerald
Manufacturer: Roaring Brook Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1596431377
Release Date: 2006-09-05

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If the levy doesn’t pass, there will be no buses for away-games, no uniforms, no teams. Tess plans to follow her own rules for soccer chicks. Soccer Chick Rule Number 3—Always support your teammates! But when real life doesn’t offer a slam-dunk ending, Tess realizes there may be something to learn from Soccer Chick Rule Number 7—Never, ever give up! Action-packed sports scenes and off-the-field drama guarantee success with girls and sports fans.

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A comedy of manners for our own time
A Disaster
Who are these hacks?
The Moon Also Rises
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Rules for Saying Goodbye: A Novel
Katherine Taylor
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0374252718
Release Date: 2007-05-29

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“Kath is curious,” observes her younger brother, Ethan, not without anxiety. She is thirteen; already everyone can see she’s got her eye on bigger things than provincial Fresno can offer. Years in the glamorous chill of an East Coast prep school will introduce her to a razor-sharp sense of social distinction, cocaine “so good it’s pink,” and an indispensable best friend—all that she needs to prepare for life in Manhattan. There will be fourteen-dollar cocktails but no money for groceries; unsuitable men of enormous charm, and unsuitable jobs of no charm at all; and a wistful yearning for a transformation from someone of promise into someone of genius.

In this deliciously witty and affecting debut novel, fiction winks at real life: Katherine Taylor is its muddled heroine, and also its author. Written in the tradition of Curtis Sittenfeld and Melissa Bank, with the gorgeous hues of a pile of Gatsby’s shirts, Rules for Saying Goodbye is a bittersweet yet comic coming-of-age tale that has an unerring feel for the delights and malaises of a generation.

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A comedy of manners for our own time.......2007-08-05

This funny, lively, sharply observed book satisfies on all levels. Taylor takes the picaresque approach in updating the comedy-of-manners genre for our own time as we follow one young woman's education in the ways of the world through fifteen years' worth of adventures in the high life, the low life, and points in between. Taylor gives us the parties, the heartbreaks, the perils of too much money and not enough money, the good sex and the bad sex, the friendships made and broken and made again, as well as the maddening, schizophrenic see-sawings of basic family life. The dialogue is note-perfect; the book rings true in its portrayal of all the complex business between men and women, and Taylor is especially deft at capturing the shades and degrees and murk of emotion. If the book seems to be "mere" fun at first, read on; the stakes get higher, the fun becomes desperate, and we're ultimately rewarded with a convincing and moving portrait of a woman in the throes and aftermath of a genuine meltdown in her life. Taylor gives us not only the stuff we want to know--the parties, the sex, the wicked good fun--but also the stuff we need to know when we're trying to make sense of the ample human talent for messing up our lives.

A Disaster.......2007-07-14

Katherine Taylor's debut novel is a derivative mess, a tome so hollow that the characters never become more than tired caricatures.

The novel's heroine, Katherine Taylor, escapes from the suburban miasma that is Fresno in her early teens to attend boarding school. Predictable adventures with her aggressive New York friends ensue. College is followed by endless stints tending bar at downtown boites in the heady period that was late '90s New York. Life for the heroine becomes sad and empty after 9/11, as the city's somber mood wreaks havoc on the bar scene and her emotions. The fictional Ms. Taylor then embarks on a series of relationships, culminating in a broken engagement to a Brussels-based reporter. And finally, the novel ends with the lethargic narrator moving to Los Angeles and concludes with revelatory brilliance such as "
I had lightened my hair, which the people Ethan and I knew in Los Angeles said made me look happier than I have ever been. 'It's not the blond,' I told them. "It's the Hollywood sign. I am in love with the Hollywood sign.'"

The author Katherine Taylor does have a gift for an occasional witty turn of phrase. However, the fundamental problem with this novel is that there is no real story being told. The relationships at the core of the narrative are one dimensional, filled with stock characters: the actor brother of questionable sexuality, the zany, coke-snorting acquaintance and the dependable, cancer-stricken friend. And then there's the cadre of international cads with whom she sleeps. And don't even get me started on the narrator's mother, a lame attempt at injecting some Auntie Mame zaniness into this boring tale.

This book is terrible, a complete waste of time and money. It boggles the mind that FSG deemed it worthy of publication. Kudos to the publicist who convinced New York Magazine to name this debut disaster one of the summer's must-read novels.

Who are these hacks?.......2007-06-25

This book is the perfect storm as to why literature and art is dying in the US. It has the brains and intellect of a B picture or pulp novel of yesteryear. Which aren't bad, in and of themselves, as they understand (along with their publisher) that they are mere entertainment.
Now.

2007. And this book RULES FOR SAYING GOODBYE. It takes all of the exploitive elements of those pictures/ books and takes them seriously. Then add on top of it some class baiting and a preposterous deluded rendering of youth that only exists inside of the mind of a jealous and creepy old man and you have a book that would sell. And that is written and developed with the nurturing care of a psychopath.

And everyone blow with one or two review ? What joker(s). The author perhaps? Ha. You people are pathetic.

Who are these people? Like Camus? What drugs are you on dude ( "Story Merchant of Tripe"?)

The Moon Also Rises.......2007-06-19

Katherine Taylor, the protagonist of Katherine Taylor's novel, is a latterday Jake Barnes--with more than an ounce of Holden Caulfield and Camus' Meursault. Her bitchy odyseey--who ever heard of complaining about the mosquitoes in Rome?--has none of the existential depth of Camus, or macho angst of Hemingway's hero. But that's exactly KT's narcissistic point--she's laughing hilariously through the tears of a meaningless, superficial life that she wishes would grab her and shake her and make her want to love it. Yeah, it expresses the zeitgeist of a generation, and just as you decide you've grown to hate this hard-drinking, nasty-talking, window-shopping voyeur in the candy shop of life--the ending surprises you with a desperate sadness that cuts through the manic laughter to captivate your heart.

Love it!.......2007-06-18

I can't wait to get back to this book. I started reading it this weekend and it is amazing how it feels like I am talking right to the author. She is witty and real and interesting and it has been a LONG time since a book sucked me in so quickly and had me excited about picking it up again at my first free moment.

Chicks Rule: The Story of the Dixie Chicks

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"Chicks Rule" doesn't rule.
This was a really great book, i wish i just knew more.

Chicks Rule: The Story of the Dixie Chicks
Scott Gray
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0345434137
Release Date: 1999-09-07

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"Chicks Rule" doesn't rule........2003-11-07

The book "Chicks Rule: The story of the Dixie Chicks" is inaccurate and not a very good biography of the band. It has continuous rambling from the author about topics not even realted to the Dixie Chicks! I DO NOT reccommend this to anyone who is looking for a complete biography of the Dixie Chicks. If you want to better book to find out this history, check out *"Dixie Chicks: Down-Home and Back Stage", written by James L. Dickerson. It is the most accurate accounting of the Dixie Chicks history to be found in print. It was painstakingly researched over a two year period, and includes interviews with founding Dixie Chick lead singer, Laura Lynch-Tull, as well as many other current and former associates of the Dixie Chicks. It includes many exclusive photographs of the early Dixie Chicks. And for eGroup members, you will find the stories and quotes of several of your fellow fans there.* (*= from www.dixiechicksfaq.com). If you would rather find out the history more easily, check out www.dixie-chicks.com. This iste has the complete detailed history from when Martie and Emily were teenagers and even has news about what Laura Lynch and Robin Macy are upto these days.
This book could have been a 1 star, but it got 2 because of the effort and pictures.

This was a really great book, i wish i just knew more........1999-10-24

I love the dixie chicks and i wish them the best of luck on everything that they do in the future.

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Chicks Rule 2008 Wall Calendar
Sellers Publishing
Manufacturer: Sellers Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar

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ASIN: 1416213279

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Girls just wanna have fun, right? Especially when it comes to making fun of boys. These colorful universal figures say it all - the battle of the sexes is officially over and the chicks won. So go ahead girls, sit back and have the last laugh, each and every month.

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Is "Gurette" Too Strong A Word?
chicks guide to football
Well Done

The Chicks' Guide to Football
Carol Stout
Manufacturer: 101 Things
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1886161070

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Feeling ignored on Sunday afternoon and Monday night? Think your man communicates more with the quarterback than with you? Maybe you're just ready to tackle the sport, after always hearing words like “offsides,” “touchback” and “scrimmage” thrown around during the game while never truly understanding what they mean. Even if you're already a professional fan, this book is just for you! Welcome to The Chicks' Guide to Football, a comprehensive manual to America's most popular sport. Written by a woman, for women, this book is designed to take a complicated sport, throw away the macho, testosterone-ridden stereotype, and dissect the game so female fans can really understand it! No matter what level of fan-hood you are on -- beginner, intermediate or advanced -- you'll learn about the history of the sport, team profiles, plays, procedure, rules and regulations. If knowledge is power, this book will provide enough technical know-how and football jargon for the reader to impress, and even test, the most devoted male fan. Many other surprises await you in “The Chicks' Guide” - a great way to make game day fun for all!

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Is "Gurette" Too Strong A Word?.......2002-01-26

Unbelievable - Carol wants again drives deep to the core of the male AND female psyche to shed new light on a such a divisive topic heretofor shrouded in darkness - the true meaning of FOOTBALL!

If Women are from Venus, Men are from Canton - and only Carol is willing to tell all!!!!!! Go get'em girlie!

chicks guide to football.......2002-01-15

I thought this was a great book. Before i didnt understand the first tthing about football. Now i sit and watch it with my husband

Well Done.......2002-01-12

It is very well done and easy to read. I look forward to others in the series

Chick follows audit path with scrutiny of public works, parks.: An article from: Los Angeles Business Journal

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Chick follows audit path with scrutiny of public works, parks.: An article from: Los Angeles Business Journal
Howard Fine
Manufacturer: CBJ, L.P.
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Los Angeles Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on March 21, 2005. The length of the article is 1022 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Chick follows audit path with scrutiny of public works, parks.
Author: Howard Fine
Publication: Los Angeles Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 21, 2005
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
Volume: 27 Issue: 12 Page: 8(1)

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CMM/CMMI Level 3 or higher? No guarantee for success.(capability maturity model, capability maturity model integration): An article from: Defense AT & L

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CMM/CMMI Level 3 or higher? No guarantee for success.(capability maturity model, capability maturity model integration): An article from: Defense AT & L
Timothy A. Chick
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Defense AT & L, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1236 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: CMM/CMMI Level 3 or higher? No guarantee for success.(capability maturity model, capability maturity model integration)
Author: Timothy A. Chick
Publication: Defense AT & L (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 35 Issue: 6 Page: 42(2)

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Port of L.A. ready to adopt reforms of leasing practices.(Laura Chick drafts leasing policy at Los Angeles port) : An article from: Los Angeles Business Journal

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Port of L.A. ready to adopt reforms of leasing practices.(Laura Chick drafts leasing policy at Los Angeles port) : An article from: Los Angeles Business Journal
David Greenberg
Manufacturer: CBJ, L.P.
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Los Angeles Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on May 16, 2005. The length of the article is 829 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Port of L.A. ready to adopt reforms of leasing practices.(Laura Chick drafts leasing policy at Los Angeles port)
Author: David Greenberg
Publication: Los Angeles Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 16, 2005
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
Volume: 27 Issue: 20 Page: 11(1)

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Regulation and differences in financial institutions.: An article from: Journal of Economic Issues

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Regulation and differences in financial institutions.: An article from: Journal of Economic Issues
Victoria Chick , and Sheila C. Dow
Manufacturer: Association for Evolutionary Economics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Association for Evolutionary Economics on June 1, 1996. The length of the article is 3173 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Regulation and differences in financial institutions.
Author: Victoria Chick
Publication: Journal of Economic Issues (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1996
Publisher: Association for Evolutionary Economics
Volume: v30 Issue: n2 Page: p517(7)

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A Soul, Mind and Heart Experience..........2006-02-03

It literally took me several months to get through this book. I study the holocuast from every aspect. Have been to the Museum in D.C. and still can't fix my mind or heart on what these people have endured. This is a heart experience. I was at the signing of this man's book and was confounded to realize after I had read it that in his eyes he looked evil in the face. I will never know how they endure these horrors of man hating man and nations hating nations. I truly believe if I could phathom this I would understand evil to this degree and God knows I don't want to understand this kind of hate. Read the book and study! I pray history never repeats itself but it does. When I looked into this man's face and then read the book my heart broke. I keep it out in the open for those around to see and hopefully they will ask. I will tell them to read it and pray. As the saying goes...For evil to succeed it takes good men to do nothing!

Excellent read, well written!.......2005-10-05

The true story of Holocaust survivor Jack Oran, aka Yakoff Skurnik in the days that he passed through the web of concentration camps that marked the baseline of WWII in Nazi Germany. Yakoff's ability to make the best of a bad situation is remarkable in itself as each moral and ethical dilemma raises its head. What allows the human being to survive man's inhumanity to man is a crucial awareness, now more than ever. When concentration camp prisoners were being fed/starved on a scientifically devised diet that actually calculated how long it would take them to starve, the ability to forage for food allowed Yakoff to stand out as a man among men. When he was able to provide warm clothing in trade for other items camp members were in need of, his importance in camp society increased. When the number tatooed on his arm spoke of his ability to outlive many, many others, he even earned the wry respect of the camp guards.

Beyond these factors, written clearly as a labor of love, is the tale of the experiment itself -- whose purpose is never explained, as it is never clearly understood. Yakoff and several others were physically and medically castrated by camp doctors, without effective anesthesia. This is really not the story of the experiment, but one man's story of how he experienced it, lived with it, and overcame it in a world where manhood is defined by what your genitals are capable of. For Yakoff, it is a loss beyond comprehension, as even his own father, beyond compassion, is humiliated in his own ego when he hears of it -- his son is no longer his son. Yakoff's father, himself facing remarkable odds and having to perform incredibly horrendous "chores" as a Kapo preparing fellow Jews for the gas chamber by reassuring them they are "only showers" so there will be no panic, cannot face his son when next their paths cross because of the shame of the castration, a shame that surpasses his own.

What makes the Nazis stand out is far beyond their physical brutality. What makes the Nazis, and others like them, stand out is their morbid focus on playing with peoples minds, hearts and souls and breaking their spirit. In many cases and in many ways they were successful, as in the case of the "musselmen" who simply caved in to death and refused to eat and waited for the inevitable. Those who made difficult choices in the name of survival do not consider themselves to be heroes. Still, they do point to the ability of the human spirit to survive in the face of adversity. Not all of us do -- but many of us can. It is all in the choices we make.

Excellent Book!.......2005-07-10

In the last few years I have read many books relating to the Holocaust, but none as detailed and well-written as this one. The book was one of the best I've read in a while, and nicely illustrates most of the aspects of the Holocaust. I would recommend this book for anyone who already knows a lot about the subject, or anyone who knows nothing. 80629: A Mengele Experiment, has made me want to read more books on the subject. This is an excellent book that I encourage you all to read.

A Mengele Experiment - Man's Inhumanity to Man Personified.......2005-01-31

`80629' A Mengele Experiment by Gene Church is the story of Yakoff Skurnik's journey through the hell that was known as Auschwitz. The horrors that are described in this book are almost beyond belief, beyond comprehension, beyond the brain's ability to register them, yet they were common place in Skurnik's world. The fact that he was able to survive any portion of this monstrous existence is a testament to his inner strength and to a great deal of luck. The book is extremely well written and the reader will find himself going through life, if one can call it that, with Skurnik as if he or she were there with him. Mr. Church should be commended for telling the story of this remarkable man and `80629' should be mandatory reading for all.

Lest We Forget ! Read It....Please !.......2003-07-28

This book is one of the most powerful Holocaust books that I have ever read and it will grip you intensely from beginning to end. It is extremely well written and will make most readers angry that innocent people can be treated in such a manner for just one reason alone. Just because they were Jewish.

This is the heartrending story of Yakoff Skurnik (Jack Oran), including his experiences as a Jew growing up in Poland and in relation to his imprisonment during the Nazi Holocaust. Yakoff's childhood/upbringing in Poland is described amongst an almost palpable anti-Semitism in what is depicted as an "inborn national pass-time" within the local/native, Polish population. Even the ancient myth of the "blood libel" still being openly taught amongst a number of other anti-Jewish prejudices which were continually being used to build generations of unjustified hostility. A hostility acted upon with violence at almost every given opportunity.

Shortly after the Nazis entered Yakoff's home town of Sierpc, the book describes how the SS & Gestapo publicly burnt down the town's oldest and largest synagogue in broad daylight. The local fire-engine was stopped at gunpoint and the synagogue allowed to burn. For their amusement the Nazis then forced the Jews to form a long line of men passing single buckets of water in an utterly hopeless attempt to quench the flames. When the men were eventually exhausted, they were then forced to `dance' around the burning synagogue at gunpoint. To further their amusement the Nazis then forced the males to strip from the waist down and crawl around the synagogue on their hands and knees. Even the elderly were not spared, indeed some elderly Jews had their beards publicly clipped for further amusement. The enormous public shame and degradation, in full view of the watching Polish civilian population who were not harassed by the Nazis, was only matched by the enthusiasm and perverse pleasure of the SS & Gestapo responsible.

The story progresses to Auschwitz & Birkenau concentration camps and the "selection" upon arrival. Following which a long column, each individual wearing the prominent yellow, six pointed `Star of David', (including the elderly, the frail, all females, as well as children and babes in arms - including most of Yakoff's family) proceeded straight to the gas chambers. Only the males considered "able to work" were spared instant death.

The "selection" and Yakoff's other experiences described here are replete with further episodes of degradation, beatings and other sick/perverted Nazi jokes which rend the imagination as to how man can stoop to such deranged levels. Yakoff personally witnessing many fellow Jewish inmates being beaten to death in front of him by "senior prisoners", who used their heavy sticks against the heads of the victims until their skulls audibly cracked.

Another of the many slaughters involved an episode on Christmas Day itself. After the Nazi troops had attended Church, tens of thousand of only Jewish prisoners were selected to run a gauntlet along a mud filled track lined on both sides with troops carrying batons and trained German Shepherd attack dogs. Each Jewish prisoner was forced to carry a quantity of rocks and run the gauntlet whilst being beaten at every step by wooden clubs and bitten by dogs. Those who fell or slipped were beaten to death, their bodies chewed by the dogs. Thousands died.

What also pervades the described concentration camp procedures is the lengths to which the Nazi regime was prepared to go to ensure accuracy in documenting the numbers and identities of Jewish prisoners in custody and even those who were murdered. The corpses were always piled in groups of five high for ease of counting and "disposal". The left arm of each dead prisoner was pulled out and his tattooed number taken, ticked off against a list of the prisoners, before being transported to the crematoria.

In due course, Yakoff and a number of other Jewish prisoners were selected for "medical experimentation" by Nazi "medical" staff under Dr. Josef Mengele. The experiences and inhumane levels of depravity incorporated into the experiments are not suitable for mention in any review. Suffice to say that they are beyond anything previously experienced in the camps by Yakoff. The experiences described are not for the squeamish, yet to appreciate the context of the Jewish suffering and the levels of Nazi barbarity it is perhaps necessary to persevere & read the agonising accounts of Yakoff, as one who managed to survive against all the odds, whilst others who were experimented upon at the same time perished.

Yakoff's experiences are described until his liberation towards the war's end. It is difficult to comprehend the vastness of the Nazi death machine at work here. In Birkenau alone, the gas chambers/crematoriums could ruthlessly murder/dispose of over 2,000 at a time, many times a day. The casualty figures are akin to numerous "September 11" type tragedies every single day, for many years. We all owe it to ourselves to read this book and to ensure that this does not happen again. I highly recommend this book.

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