"Blending elements of memoir, history, and biography," the son of a Holocaust survivor "portrays the horrifying reality of the . . . concentration camps" ( Midwest Book Review).In June 1944, the Nazis locked eighteen-year-old Dave Hersch into a railroad boxcar and shipped him from his hometown of Dej, Hungary, to Mauthausen Concentration Camp, the harshest, cruelest camp in the Reich. After ten months in the granite mines of Mauthausen's nearby sub-camp, Gu...

The award-winning journalist delves "into the confluence of modern airplane technology and pilot behavior to probe how and why flight disasters happen" ( BookTrib).Aviation automation has been pushed to its limits, with pilots increasingly relying on it. Autopilot, autothrottle, autoland, flight management systems, air data systems, inertial guidance systems. All these systems are only as good as their inputs which, incredibly, can go rogue. Even the automa...

David Hersch überlebte zwei der berüchtigten Todesmärsche der Nazis, 50 km lange, meist tödliche Fußmärsche vom KZ Mauthausen zum KZ Gunskirchen. Ihm gelang die Flucht und er fand Unterschlupf bei einem deutschen Ehepaar, das ihn bis zum Kriegsende versteckte. Sein Sohn, Jack Hersch, erfährt durch Zufall von der tragischen Berühmtheit seines Vaters und macht sich auf, mehr über dessen Vergangenheit zu erfahren. In diesem Buch berichtet er von den grausamen Praktiken der Nazis und von einem...

Winner, 2019 Spirit of Anne Frank Human Writes Award "This deeply personal and extremely informative portrait of a man of indomitable will to live, as Hersch emphasizes, reminds us of why we must never forget nor trivialize the full, shocking truth about the Holocaust." — BooklistHersch effectively uses his father’s unusual story to convey the horrors of the Holocaust. A valuable addition to Holocaust literature. - Publishers WeeklyHersch's amazing tale is ...