HITLER, STALIN, MUM & DAD
by Daniel Finkelstein
(William Collins, $39.99)
"Survival involved such cinematic elements as a fake passport, spies, blind luck and a train ride to freedom.
It is a miracle this book exists. It’s a miracle its author Daniel Finkelstein exists. How they both do is this astonishing memoir’s remarkable story. As Finkelstein writes, is a chronicle of “love and murder, a story of how the great forces of history crashed down in a terrible wave” on to his parents’ families. And it is a story of