A must read to set the record straight! Great writer, wonderful book. It hurts.

Feels deceptive to mark this book as read because, well, it wasn't. I was so bored I couldn't finish it. :(

Did not like the writing style of this author. Though it was a bit poetic and quite descriptive, it all seemed to run together, with no clear breaks or transitions between scenes and the numerous flashbacks. It all seemed garbled and was easy to get lost. This book and its author were simply not for me.

I thought for sure this was going to be a nail biter. I listened to the audio and was underwhelmed. About half way through I realized I really didn't care.
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David Warburg is an up-and-comer at the U.S. Treasury when he is appointed to head up the War Refugees Board. The Board's pilot project is to rescue 1,000 Jewish refugees to upstate New York. Warburg is not a religious Jew, but he has been wanting to get into the fight since the beginning. James Carroll's Warburg in Rome tells his story. Carroll uses real history to give Warburg's tale a sense of the real post-war tragedy of the ratlines and the struggle of Jews and displaced persons to find a new home...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley for review consideration.

Another quarantine read that has been sitting on my shelf for years. Excellent historical read dealing with a lesser-known aspect of WWII history. The author presents a nuanced telling of good and evil and that often it is hard to know who is who and that good and evil sometimes are very relative ideas.