I’ve just finished reading The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. It’s only a small book, cleverly written from a 9 year old boy’s view point but it packs a punch.

It is a story written through the eyes of an innocent child who doesn’t know politics nor war, thus there is no description of that nature. This is a must read book for any humanitarian, or anyone wishing to learn a little more about the holocaust without getting into gory detail.

The simplicity with which this book is written is brilliant and makes for a very easy read and a hard to put down novel. I was surprised that I was only one of three people on this site to have read this book.

If you do read it, and I hope you do, please refrain from reading the ending until the end. (I know some people do read the end first for some reason.) Toward the end of the novel you do get a sense of where it is going to take you, but the last line, one short line, makes you look at today’s world and want to vomit.

And they say history never repeats…