Village of a Million Spirits: A Novel of the Treblinka Uprising

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Village of a Million Spirits: A Novel of the Treblinka Uprising
by Ian MacMillan
from Penguin (Non-Classics)

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Full of horror, yet avoids exploitation or sentiment
  Many of the other reviewers have pointed out the strengths of this novel. Reading it--in one sitting--after the author's earlier 1981 collection Orbit of Darkness, I was impressed most with MacMillan's ability to shift into multiple characters and narrative shifts to circle around the year or so before the Treblinka revolt to keep my interest and avoid the neatly plotted historical novel. While his detachment may disappoint those looking for a conventional melodrama, he takes on the challenge of description... more info

• Astounding
  Clearly, Stephen G. Esrati (review below) has an obsession with footnotes (a footnote fetish, if you will). Leave it to the "expertise" of a writer for stamp collectors to give such a ridiculously blind review of one of the most amazing books on the Holocaust ever written. Village of a Million Spirits is, quite simply, a mind-blowing account of the Treblinka revolt. Perhaps unlike Mr. Esrati, I have studied the Holocaust extensively, and I can confidently state that McMillan's book is based on ample... more info

• Emphasis is on gruesome detail
  MacMillan's book is a novel. In the interview that follows his story he says
  he has not talked to anyone who was at Treblinka and has never been there.
  He has done it all through reading. But, unlike Paul Erdman's books about
  Switzerland's role in the Holocaust, MacMillan provides no footnotes. The
  book screams for a treatment like Erdman's.
  For example: We all know about the shipment of people packed tightly
  together in boxcars, but MacMillan also describes a luxury train from
  Vienna,... more info

• Compelling and Necessary Reading
  This book has forever shaped my imagery of the horrors of the Nazi death camps. Compelling, powerful, horrific beyond measure. An incredible journey into the recesses of hell. I don't know how the author was able to capture with such vivid portraiture the evil described, considering that he is not a survivor. A must-read.

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