Massive in scope, horrific in subject matter, and shocking in its protagonist, Littell\'s prize-winning fictional memoir of a former Nazi officer who survives the war is intense and utterly original.
Destined to join the pantheon of classic epics of war such as Tolstoy\'s War and Peace and Vasily Grossman\'s Life and Fate , The Kindly Ones offers a profound and gripping experience of the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust.. a world-class masterpiece of astonishing brutality, originality, and force, and relentlessly fascinating, ambitious beyond scope, by Michael Korda ( Ike, With Wings Like Eagles ). -- Time A literary prize-winner that has been an explosive bestseller all over the world, Jonathan Littell\'s The Kindly Ones has been called a brilliant Holocaust novel...
The Kindly Ones is unmistakably the work of a profoundly gifted writer. . . .
Simply astounding.
Massive in scope, horrific in subject matter, and shocking in its protagonist, Littell\'s prize-winning fictional memoir of a former Nazi officer who survives the war is intense and utterly original
