{"product_id":"auschwitz-report-paperback-by-primo-levi-leonardo-de-benedetti","title":"Auschwitz Report Paperback by Primo Levi, Leonardo De Benedetti","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eVerso\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2015-03-03)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e112\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781781688045\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e140.62\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e7.8 x 5.0 x 0.35\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmong the first written accounts of the concentration camps—a major literary and historical discovery.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was subsequently forgotten and remained unknown to a wider public.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDating from the weeks and months immediately after the war, \u003ci\u003eAuschwitz Report\u003c\/i\u003e details the authors’ harrowing deportation to Auschwitz, and how those who disembarked from the train were selected for work or extermination. As well as being a searing narrative of everyday life in the camp, and the organization and working of the gas chambers, it constitutes Levi’s first lucid attempts to come to terms with the raw horror of events that would drive him to create some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature and testimony. \u003ci\u003eAuschwitz Report\u003c\/i\u003e is a major literary and historical discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003eA chemist by training, \u003cb\u003ePrimo Levi\u003c\/b\u003e (1919–1987) was arrested as an anti-fascist partisan during World War IIand deported to Auschwitz in 1944. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Drowned and the Saved\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e If This Is a Man\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Periodic Table\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 1987.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Leonardo de Benedetti\u003c\/b\u003e (1898–1983) was an Italian Jew and physician who was interned in the Auschwitz concentration camp from February 1944 until its liberation in January 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":45341035495585,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781781688045","price":20.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781781688045.jpg?v=1762792812","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/auschwitz-report-paperback-by-primo-levi-leonardo-de-benedetti","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}