1941 The Year that keeps returning

[rich]

this appears to be a must read

http://www.nybooks.com/books/imprints/collections/1941-the-year-that-keeps-returning/

I think I can pinpoint exactly the hour and day when my childhood ended:
Easter Sunday, April 13, 1941." In this ambitious mix of history and
memoir, Goldstein, a Croatian writer, looks back at WWII and its effects on
his life, family, and neighbors. Much of the book is dedicated to the last
days of his father, a leftist bookseller who was arrested and later killed
at the Jadovno concentration camp in Croatia. However, Goldstein covers a
lot of territory as he explores the vicious ethnic warfare between Serbs
and Croats from 1941 onward and looks at how the Nazi pogrom further
affected his country's Jewish community. The result reads like several
books in one, with Goldstein digressing through numerous tangents to
provide a thorough accounting. Thus, readers learn about the fate of the
family and its bookstore, the brutal tactics of the fascist Ustasha regime,
and Goldstein's own activities as a partisan. It's a poignant,
uncompromising recollection, told in a meandering but easy-to-follow
manner. Though its size will intimidate many readers, Goldstein's book,
reconstructed through personal experience as well as numerous interviews
and historical documents ("I have placed all my memories under suspicion"),
provides invaluable insight into Croatia during WWII. (Nov.)
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