Reviews for Genocide & Rescue in Wolyn: Recollections of the Ukrainian Nationalist Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Against the Poles During World War II

The average rating for Genocide & Rescue in Wolyn: Recollections of the Ukrainian Nationalist Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Against the Poles During World War II based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-12-16 00:00:00 Charles Wagner I read part of the book and stopped out of consideration of time. The writing is good. This covers an area of the Eastern Europe conflict during and after WWII that I was completely unfamiliar with though it certainly has bearing on contemporary politics in the area. The book does a good job in giving statistics and breaks down the events to a region by region, county by county (?), village by village account of atrocities. The author has gone to great lengths to collect the stories of survivors who endured and survived the events and publish them. This book does not pull any punches and like a good accounting of war brutality, discusses the gross realities of what transpired. The book does not read like a comprehensive history in the narrative format much like you would find in a book like you would find in Timothy Snyder's, "The Bloodlands", but more akin to a collection of testimonies that speak to the volume of voices that want the events to be remembered. There is some good background information for the conflict in the beginning that helps the reader understand the historical enmity between the Ukrainian and Polish ethnic groups. I plan to read the rest of it at a future date.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-05-22 00:00:00 Amber Rizzo Review originally published on Amazon.com. You can read more of my reviews on my blog, The Bookwyrm's Hoard. Everyone has a favorite film or television version of Dickens beloved A Christmas Carol. But few of us have any idea how very many adaptations there have been. Mr. Guida's wonderful book examines first the written Carol, then goes on to detail some of the hundreds of adaptations and variations, from the early stage versions and magic lantern slides to modern made-for-television Carols. Mr. Guida discusses the major Carols with wit and humor as well as rare discernment: his love for his subject is evident. Minor Carols and variations are also covered, albeit more briefly. If you cannot find your favorite version in the text, you are sure to find it in the superb and very thorough filmography. The filmography is worth browsing in and of itself; did you know that there have been Western, country-western, rock-and-roll, and even science-fiction variations on A Christmas Carol? Or that actors as disparate as Cicely Tyson, Basil Rathbone, and Mr. Magoo have all played Scrooge? If you love A Christmas Carol or simply dote on film trivia, I promise you will enjoy this book. Full disclosure: I was privileged to create the index for this book. I don't normally review books I've indexed (in order to avoid conflict of interest), but I wrote this review for Amazon (with Mr. Guida's consent, though without his input) well before I became a book blogger -- in 1999, as a matter of fact. The honest truth is that I would have enjoyed reading and browsing the book even if I hadn't worked on the index.