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No cover — Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (EBook, 2009, The Floating Press)

eBook

English language

Published Nov. 5, 2009 by The Floating Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-77541-233-5
OCLC Number:: 493366514

Robinson Crusoe is the fictional autobiography of the title character. As a young man, Crusoe sets out from England on a disastrous sea voyage. His passion for seafaring remains undiminished and so he sets out again, only to be shipwrecked a third time. His journey takes him to Brazil where he becomes a plantation owner. A third and final shipwrecking, however, leaves him stranded for 28 years on a remote island. There he becomes a devout Christian and believes his life lacks nothing but society.The work is sometimes credited with being the first English novel.

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5 stars

Miles Watson may be just about the only writer who can get away with a story set in the polish ghetto, told from the perspective of German soldiers sent in to round up or otherwise “deal with” Jews, without either turning the Germans into monsters or undermining the awfulness of what was done there. With a surgical precision, he depicts the world view of the German Reich, instilled in soldiers’ thinking, whilst also allowing the readers to see that in the grip of a war that they neither control nor understand, these individual men are really no different from American soldiers or British soldiers. Actually – no matter the hideous truth behind what the German soldiers are required to do – at that moment of battle, kill or be killed, they are not even much different from the jewish resistance fighters whom they confront. War. They’re all of them doing …

Miles Watson may be just about the only writer who can get away with a story set in the polish ghetto, told from the perspective of German soldiers sent in to round up or otherwise “deal with” Jews, without either turning the Germans into monsters or undermining the awfulness of what was done there. With a surgical precision, he depicts the world view of the German Reich, instilled in soldiers’ thinking, whilst also allowing the readers to see that in the grip of a war that they neither control nor understand, these individual men are really no different from American soldiers or British soldiers. Actually – no matter the hideous truth behind what the German soldiers are required to do – at that moment of battle, kill or be killed, they are not even much different from the jewish resistance fighters whom they confront. War. They’re all of them doing what they’ve got to do, at risk of death any moment, the most delicate of them dehumanised. This is brave writing. Seriously.