Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times

by Eyal Press

Book Overview

On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a century later, a Serb from the war-blasted city of Vukovar defies his superiors in order to save the lives of Croats. At the height of the Second Intifada, a member of Israel's most elite military unit informs his commander he doesn't want to serve in the occupied territories. Fifty years after...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374143420
• ISBN13: 9780374143428
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.5"