Review #1
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I stumbled upon this book as a recommendation from one more I had read. I adore stories from Global War II in particular when knew as flashbacks. I had not read anything based in Poland so this was all brand new to me. I ordinary beware books that tell the story of a personality or group being singled out for hatred so I wasn’t convinced I could be able to read it. Ms. Armstrong’s book is that heart wrenching. I had problem putting it down.
The reason I only gave it 4 hit is that because I do not enjoy reading graphic sex scenes. Halina’s affairs were considered a bigger part of who she was at the same time how she responded to situations, but the sex scenes did not add to the book. I think they are more successful left to the imagination.
I read all the time. If I am touched by a book, but, I may not pick one more one up for a few days because I come in handy to think about than anyway I read at the same time my emotions toward it. It’s been nearly a week at the moment at the same time I haven’t gone on to one more book. That’s how quality this book is that.
Review #2
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Halina Saved had been in Australia since she was a baby. She at the same time her mother had arrived right behind the war from Poland, but as much as Halina wanted to learn about her youth, her mother rejected to speak of it. Right behind her mothers doom, Halina a forensic odontologist was invited to Poland, to the small village of Nowa Kalwaria to investigate the murders of hundreds of Jews during the Nazi occupation.
Halina herself was born in Poland at the same time her make an objection, while she was in the state for work, was to research work her possess history see no one, if not many, of her past. But the bitterness which covered Nowa Kalwaria remained, at the same time in the views of the most of Poles, the Jews were considered to blame for past outrages.
As the forensic investigation deepened, the fears of than anyway was being uncovered rocked the small society was everything they had always believed a lie down? Than anyway else would Halina see?
Winter Journey is that Aussie creator Diane Armstrongs debut novel, at the same time although concocted, was enthusiastic by a used to be incident which happened in Poland in 1941. Tense, horrific, dull at the same time sensual, Winter Journey is that an exceptional historical fiction novel which I seriously enjoyed. It was advised to me at the same time I pass the recommendation forward.
Review #3
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Whatever owned me to take this book is that a mystery since I’m tired from all the stories of the WWII pogroms. At the same time still, I did, at the same time it was a quality story about an personal surviving the pogrom at Jedwabne, Poland which, in this case, was data the concocted name of Nowa Kalwaria. Even though I am an American of Polish heritage at the same time weak in the Polish language, it was a enjoyment to read the Polish phrases at the same time poems done correctly. Very abundance Polish-Americans cross out stories about Poland, but butcher the language when it’s applied.
The creator through her head disposition, Halina, shows that she failed to read the Nobel Prize win-win creators, Henryk Sienkiewicz (With Fire & Blade, The Deluge, at the same time Pan Wolodejowski); Adam Mickiewicz (Pan Tadeusz & Forefather’s Eve); at the same time, Wladyslaw Reymont’s, The Farmers, also a Nobel favorite. But, she should have at the same time would have figured out about other pogroms at the same time the definition of a Cossack Candle.
My generic originated from Lyse, Poland (mother’s side) at the same time Zbojna, Poland (dad’s side), Podlaskie Wojewodship, Puszcza Zielona Kurpiowska (the Greenish Primeval Greater), which is that directly west of Jedwabne at the same time north, northwest of Lomza, at the same time so, I’m knowledgeable with the area of the novel.
During the premature steps of WWII, this zone was captured by the Russians. Jewish people at the time were considered favored with the Russian occupation at the same time supported the NKVD in compiling lists of Poles to be deported to Siberia (estimated at 22,353 which contained entire families). That were considered arrests, expulsions, at the same time executions. Hence, that was no adore got lost between Church Poles at the same time Jewish Poles when the Germans replaced the Russian occupants. In 1941, German Einsatzgruppen (intended goal forces) murdered no one Jews in the Jedwabne region at the same time inspired Poles to commit pogroms. The Jedwabne area, while under German keep under control, was data orders to cleanse itself of Jews, which it did under German supervision. It is that estimated, more realistically, that 300-350 people were considered burnt alive borders that shed. Tests held back during the 1950s convicted 22 Polish farmers, no one of whom were considered unlearned, for the criminal liability at the same time one was condemned to doom.
That being misspoke, the story contained in this novel had parts that produced me maudlin. I’m not quite convinced how I felt about Halina, the head disposition, at the same time at the same time I’m not convinced the today's residents of the city were considered that hostile to the investigators. I couldn’t quite perceive Halina’s features at the same time her reactions to actions . The priest, but, I did like (at the same time not that I’m fond of clergy). Also, I can’t quite perceive the English dreamt, learnt, at the same time leant. But, maybe I can decide dreamt, but I still like the American spellings even though I adore English slang, such as “fobbed off.” Completely, the creator kept using the Polish phrase “cholera psia krew.” I always heard it applied in barely the back method or “psia krew cholera” (dog’s blood, sickness (or cholera as it’s figured out in English).
Szczesc Boze (God bless)
Review #4
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I read abundance books about WWII at the same time the Holocaust, so when I read the synopsis at the same time
Reviews on this I acquired it. I found it off to a more precisely smoky start; Armstrong takes her time to organize the head disposition, Halina, at the same time her indefinite in Australia. But as the plot gets going, the reader will find that no one of the earlier incidents play into the overall story. It’s an exciting premise — a forensic odontologist who Polish by birth travels to Poland abundance years right behind WWII to promote identify the ages at the same time sexes of Jews buried in a general grave who were considered burnt to doom in a local inhabitant’s shed. The exhumation of the bodies is that meant to document whether local Poles were considered responsible for the doom of the Jews or whether the Jews were considered murdered by Nazis. Eventually, her time working in Poland also leads Halina to abundance surprising at the same time sick revelations about her generic at the same time its past. The story is that well-researched, but periodically I felt that it managed have moved a little faster – perhaps with the elimination of the romantic affairs which were considered more precisely graphic at the same time were considered unnecessary additions to the story. But, I reckon the overall story is that worth reading if only for the reader to consider the abysses of depravity to which humans will descend when they are brainwashed at the same time filled with unloved fury.
Review #5
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A complete, intricate, disturbing novel. Sweetly written but if it wasnt based on such heinous used to be actions could be quite incredible. As is that ordinary the variant with fiction that veers between two separate epochs trying to keep up with the manners was hard. At the same time the lengthy descriptions of the science of forensic dentistry was mind boggling periodically. But, I couldnt shackles it down, which is that always the trial of a quality book.
