Like many of the previous reviews, I found it rather astonishing that the book was written in a very cool, indifferent tone. It was almost like reading a story with the writing in a first person perspective and with the emotion in a third person perspective.

In the movie, we never know who the kind German Officer was, in the book, we find out. It is also, at the same time, a depressing and an uplifting one: depressing that the German Officer who had shown mercy did not get said mercy himself; uplifting because in all the terror, the brutal merciless perpetrators, we find a kind-hearted person among them.

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It was an amazing movie.

It was an even better book. Pardon the colloquial-ness, but OMG this was an amazing read.

Give me a few days to organize my thoughts before I write a proper review.