Book review: If This Is A Woman by Sarah Helm
Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Wow, this was a hefty book! 727 pages later and after a year of reading this after getting it in Berlin last year, I finally managed to finish reading If This Is A Woman, by Sarah Helm. I was questioning whether I would finish it because I was reading it for so long but I'm glad that I stuck with it because I now have a book review for you. All I can say about this book is that it's incredibly detailed. No wonder it won the Longman-History Today Prize and got so many praises from different newspapers. As the Independent on Sunday said, 'Compelling... (Helm) has painstakingly sought out many survivors and talked to them herself. The results are devastating... What one is left with at the end of this momentous book is a sense of power of human nature, both for good and evil.' Before reading this, I had no idea about Ravensbruck concentration camp for women; the most renouned camp that is always talked about in the hi