Schindler's List

By: Thomas Keneally

Narrated by: Ben Kingsley

In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and “masterful account of the growth of the human soul” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), returns with an all-new introduction by the author.

An “extraordinary” (The New York Review of Books) novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of The Book of Science and Antiquities and The Daughter of Mars, uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden—Schindler’s Jews—to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil. “Astounding…in this case the truth is far more powerful than anything the imagination could invent” (Newsweek).©1993 Serpentine Publishing Co. PTY LTD. All Rights Reserved; (P)1993 Simon & Schuster Inc., All Rights Reserved; AUDIOWORKS is an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster Inc.

Overly shortened.

I saw the movie, now I wanted to hear the book. It was cut far too short without mentioning it was abridged. Not enough detail.

Schindler's List

This is one of my favorite movies of all times. I'm too old and my eyesight is too bad to read the book now so I was very happy to find this audiobook. The story is great. Schindler was a wonderful man.

Moving

Before this, I had never read or watched Schindler's List. I'd always wanted to, but was afraid material would be too haunting. I felt this medium gave me that opportunity. I'm glad I listen to it. Thank you. God bless!

We are all capable of cruelty and compassion

Thomas Keneally always has a message and a challenge for his readers. The challenge here is to acknowledge that all of us are capable of cruelty and compassion. The challenge for all of us is to find that middle road so that at our death they may say of us "he was a good man".

Reading along.

I like the book. I was trying to read along with the physical book itself but there were many parts when it skipped large chunks and added a few words that were not in the physical book. I was a little confused every once in a while but I liked the story.
I'm reading this for my 8th grade Language arts class with our WWII unit.
We read the book night by Elie Wiesel as a class and I chose this is my individual book.