| This extraordinary novel tells thetragic and inspiring story of the Polishpeople and the national nightmare ofconquest and occupation that fol-lowed the invasion by Germany andRussia. When their country was overran in1939, the lives of the Polish peoplewere changed utterly. Thousandswere deported to Soviet work camps,others lived in hiding, millions morewere arrested and murdered. THEMARCH is a masterful blend of historyand imagination that shows peoplecaught up ill the sweep of earthshak-ing events. W. S. Kuniczak has theremarkable ability to make his char-acters part of the human experienceitself. Their lives explore eternal ques-tions about survival and the battleagainst brutality that war involves. There is Tarski, the professionalsoldier whose devotion to duty blindshim to truths other than his own andwho is murdered with thousands ofothers in the Katyn Forest; Mendel-tort, an impassioned Zionist, whosecommitment to the cause of his peo-ple leads him to a dreadful personaldecision; Catherine, whe growsthrough the circumstances of war andseparation to an understanding of her-self; Abel, a youthful poet, whom the |
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