The Book Smugglers was recommended to me by someone who works at the Jewish museum in Vilnius. I got it on a terrible ebook, expecting just to read a few relevant chapters for my BA thesis. Very quickly I decided that I would read the whole thing.

This book is both meticulously researched and written in a very readable style. The narrative is fast paced, exciting and emotional. I didn't release which I started how attached I was going to get to these real historical figures as if they were characters in a novel. At several points I was overcome by the poignancy not just of the acts of cultural resistance and preservation described, but also small human actions - details which could well have been left out of many books, but Fishman thought important to include.

This is not a book that I will forget any time soon.