Once in a blue moon, a human picks up a volume and finds that gold has been woven into a book. Avenue of Spies by Alex Kershaw is the rawest book I have read since Laura Hillenbrand's 'Unbroken'. History of any kind has always interested me immensely, and I am very often disappointed, so as I opened up this book, my expectations were not high. But as I adjusted to the style of writing that Alex Kershaw uses, I found myself feeling ten times more intelligent for reading this book.
I didn't give this book a five star rating because at times, my fifteen-year old-self felt like I was trudging through sticky swamps of facts and dates that seemed to rush over me like a title wave. There are quite a few parts of the book which are a bit heavy, nudity, violence, abuse etc. but I dismissed that because I feel like the facts of war and history should never be omitted in life, and that is what made this book so raw and real.
I am not putting a summary of this book in my review because there is to much to say and the book says it all in such blunt forwardness that I don't think I can give a summary without giving it all away, and I don't think I could adequately write it to meet the story of the book itself. However I will say that if you are looking for a book. This, my friends, is a book, and I am proud to have it gracing my bookshelf.
Its a story of a family that survived a war.
All the facts are there, however gruesome.
What more could you ask?
Author:Alex Kershaw
Genre: WWII, Nonfiction, Biography. (More Info)
My Rating: 8.5/10
I received this book for free from Blogging for books for my honest review
xoxo
Leah
