![]() ![]() ![]() I will not soon forget this epic of decency, this saga of humanism saving lives. Combines all the immediacy of personal drama with an unerring sense of the wider implications of Denmark's achievement - David Crane Spectator Countrymen is extraordinary. Michael Ignatieff New Statesman Lucid, compelling and scrupulously fair. An intensely human account of one episode in the persecution of European Jews that ended in survival. Once the drama kicks in, it turns almost into a thriller, with a handful of first-person stories woven into the larger political machinations - Ian Birrell Mail on Sunday Magnificent. It is as exciting as any spy thriller - Richard Overy Sunday Telegraph It is an inspirational saga, one in which decency and democracy defeat the forces of darkness, and it is superbly told by Bo Lidegaard. Ian Buruma Guardian Based on contemporary diaries written by a number of Danish Jews, Lidegaard has written of exactly how the escape of two families was planned and carried out, hour by tense hour. The story Lidegaard tells of how Danes, from the top bureaucrats, Church leaders and police officials down to the humblest fishermen, helped the Jews escape when the Germans tried to deport them to concentration camps in October 1943, is indeed astonishing and heart-warming. ![]() ![]() A tremendously stirring book - Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times Magisterial. The rescue of the Danish Jews is surely one of the most extraordinary - and genuinely moving - stories of the last century. ![]()
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