The image is from the movie that Edward Zwick made with Daniel Craig as Tuvia Bielski. I first saw the movie, and then I was unable to resist getting the book.
There are many shortcomings in the movie, but it was well done. When you have to boil down the essential elements of a highly documented and researched historical work, you just can't do it justice.
The basic storyline is set in Belorussia/Poland when the Germans invaded in 1941. Jewish population in this region was reduced by 90% during the several years of World War II. This is about a group of Jews that resisted, fled into the forest, built a village, and had as their primary mission to save Jews. They were very imperfect people (who isn't?) but I was fascinated by their humanity and their reaction to the situation in which they found themselves.
At war's end, over 1200 Jews walked out of the forest together under the leadership of three brothers - Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski. Today the descendants of the people they saved number in the tens of thousands.
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