NP The Avengers

[Doug Millison]

http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/01/reviews/001001.01bronnet.html
review of _The Avengers_ by Rick Cohen.

excerpt:
In truth, the successes of the Jewish partisans were few -- a 
blown-up rail car here, several dozen dead enemy officers there -- 
and most were captured and executed. But the depth of their courage, 
the unambiguous justice of their cause and the raw evil of their 
tormentors make for an inspiring tale. What does it take to crawl in 
human waste through the sewers of the Vilna ghetto to transport parts 
of a single machine gun? To live without bread on a swamp island in 
the Rudnicki forest of southern Lithuania worrying not only about 
invading German soldiers but neighboring Jew-hating Polish partisans? 
To carry out a revenge plot against the Germans after the war? Those 
are the stories that Cohen tells in ''The Avengers.''