EAN: 9780751579925

MAKE IT COUNT - BENJAMIN FERENCZ TASCHENBUCH

'I don't know where to stop praising Benny and this amazing book...' - HEATHER MORRIS  The
Tattooist of Auschwitz    ' This book...is the stuff folk tales are made of. How wonderful that
sometimes they are true' - MARTIN FREEMAN    What a century of life experience can teach us
about happiness  ambition  courage  love and how to make the most of the lives we've been
given.   How many people do you know grew up as a poor immigrant in America during the Great
Depression  won a scholarship to Harvard Law School  landed on the beaches of Normandy on D Day
were present at the liberation of concentration camps including Buchenwald  Mauthausen and
Flossenburg  held leading Nazis to account at the Nuremberg trials and have fought for an
International Criminal Court to hold war criminals to account the world over?  Now you know
one.   Benjamin Ferencz turned 100 in 2020. In this extraordinary book  he shares his
remarkable life story and the nine humble  compelling and life-affirming lessons he's learned
along the way that we can all harness for ourselves.  'Warm  wise and inspiring - a book for
our times by one of the world's most remarkable human beings'  PHILIPPE SANDS  author of East
West Street and The Ratline   'Ferencz is a true survivor and Mensch! He has wonderful humour 
patience and gratitude. The book is a "must read"''  DR EDITH EGER  author of The Choice and
The Gift    'This is a life-affirming and beautiful book from a great human being. There are
simple truths here to treasure'  BART VAN ES  author of The Cut Out Girl    'I read this in one
go and it felt like moments ... Here is wisdom stripped to the necessary minimum - spare but
nutritious. This is the good stuff.'  NEIL OLIVER

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