An Eye For An Eye

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Basic Books, Dec 20, 1993 - History - 272 pages
The Book They Can't Suppress Not for sixty years has a book been so brutally (and, in the end, unsuccessfully) suppressed as An Eye for an Eye. One major newspaper, one major magazine, and three major publishers paid $40,000 for it but were scared off. One printed 6,000 books, then pulped them. Two dozen publishers read An Eye for an Eye and praised it. "Shocking, "Startling," "Astonishing," "Mesmerizing," "Extraordinary," they wrote to Author John Sack. "I was rivited," "I was bowled over," "I love it," they wrote, but all two dozen rejected it. Finally, BasicBooks published An Eye for an Eye. It "sparked a furious controversy," said Newsweek. It became a best-seller in Europe but was so shunned in America that it also became, in the words of New York Magazine, "The Book They Dare Not Review." Since then, both 60 Minutes and The New York Times have corroborated what Sack wrote: that at the end of World War II, thousands of Jews sought revenge for the Holocaust. They set up 1,255 concentration camps for German civilians -- German men, women, children and babies. There they beat, whipped, tortured and murdered the Germans.

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Contents

An Eye for an Eye 1158
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Aftermath
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Notes
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Copyright

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About the author (1993)

He has been a newspaper reporter in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia; a contributor to Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker; a writer, producer, and special correspondent for CBS News; and a war correspondent in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Yugoslavia. The author of ten nonfiction books, Sack lives in the Rocky Mountains.

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