Parting Words

An extraordinary 100-year-old man’s 9 lessons for living a life to be proud of

By: Benjamin Ferencz

Narrated by: Allan Corduner, Nadia Khomami

What a century of life experience can teach us about happiness, ambition, courage, love and how to make the most of the lives we've been given.

How many people do you know grew up as a poor immigrant in America during the Great Depression, won a scholarship to Harvard Law School, landed on the beaches of Normandy on D Day, were present at the liberation of concentration camps including Buchenwald, Mauthausen and Flossenburg, held leading Nazis to account at the Nuremberg trials and have fought for an International Criminal Court to hold war criminals to account the world over?

Now you know one.

Benjamin Ferencz turned 100 in 2020. In this extraordinary book, he shares his remarkable life story and the nine humble, compelling and life-affirming lessons he's learned along the way that we can all harness for ourselves.

©2020 Benjamin Ferencz (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK

Critic reviews

"I don't know where to stop praising Benny and this amazing book...." (Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz)

"This book...is the stuff folk tales are made of. How wonderful that sometimes they are true." (Martin Freeman)

"Warm, wise and inspiring - a book for our times by one of the world's most remarkable human beings." (Philippe Sands, author of East West Street and The Ratline)

I love this man!!!

He is wise and wonderful. Something caught my attention when I was browsing the store and I bought this. Later I forgot why I bought it and listening to the introduction, I almost decided not to listen… it’s about WWll which I recently listened to a couple other books taking place around that time… I wasn’t sure I wanted to listen to another one.

Am I glad I did! This is the best book every, with very wise words from an extraordinary man!!! The introduction is important because it tells us who he is.

I highly recommend this book to everyone and anyone!!! Ms Lenny Lunden

Charming

A great, short, charming book. Well worth your time. Ferencz has lived an incredible life.

Advice everyone should live by.

Awsome book that underpins simple truths everyone should live by in a short and powerful package.

Great book with an amazing story And super advice

I liked the whole
Book!
The book as
Very interesting…his
Life…his role at Nuremberg and his desire for world peace. Very inspiring!
Good read for high school
Students and all adults.