"These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain...all the way to its stoic conclusion." --Primo Levi "The testimony of a profoundly serious man....
With the ear of a poet and the eye of a novelist, Amery vividly communicates the wonder of a philosopher--a wonder here aroused by the \'dark riddle\'.
In its every turn and crease, it bears the marks of the true." --Irving Howe, New Republic "This remarkable memoir...is the autobiography of an extraordinarily acute conscience. "These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain...all the way to its stoic conclusion." --Primo Levi "The testimony of a profoundly serious man...