This book is an incredible page turner. From the very first chapter, I was drawn into this incredible world, filled with fascinating characters and pulse-quickening events.

The author takes this story and breaths incedible life and energy into it. By chapter 3, I genuinely cared about the characters. By the middle of the book, I could barely put it down. And as I finished the epilogue, I felt a strange sadness come over me – like I was saying goodbye to a group of friends.

I watched the film and thought it was good, but the movie doesn’t do the book justice. Readable historical non-fiction is rare and this book reads like a novel – better than a novel, because you know that these are real people and real events being recounted (complete with footnotes!)

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. A must-read!

I didn’t see the movie, but by most accounts the book is very good. Hopefully it lives up to its reputation.

This was a pulse accelerator. A marvelous telling of a story that had slipped somehow into obscurity. Listening to it on disc was perhaps a good way to keep me from racing ahead or reading it too fast.

Saw the movie and I immediately thought “I need to read this book.”

This is so good, I’m sorry it’s not longer.

I had to take this back to the library. I will eventually get around to finishing it.