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Halina
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

Halina

In this gripping first-person account of the Nazi occupation of Poland, Halina Johnson describes her personal experiences of those historical events. In a way, Halina tells two stories in this book: one, the diary-like account of a child growing to womanhood, and another, the inspirational chronicle of a small country's bravery. Her own story is so interweaved with Poland's that it becomes a single narrative told from several perspectives. It is Halina's ability to wind these accounts seamlessly into a single narrative that gives the book epic quality. Halina is not the central character of the book; Poland is. She is merely the witness. History books, for example, report that Poles were exi...