Olga: Revolutionary and Martyr

by Fernando Morais

Book Overview

Olga Benario, German and Jewish, was one of the most remarkable Communist activists of the twentieth century. Blessed with a genius for organization and an unwavering devotion, the beautiful, willful daughter of a liberal Munich lawyer crisscrossed the globe educating and activating legions to combat the worldwide plagues of nazism and fascism. At the age of nineteen, she masterminded a daring prison raid to free her then-lover, the Communist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802141897
• ISBN13: 9780802141897
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Olga is an Inspiration

This is one of my four all time favorite books. It's set in a fascinating time period (the years leading up to WWII) and tells the story of an incredibly couragous woman, Olga Benario. The writing is straight forward with few flourishes but the book includes so many fascinating details of this woman's life that you can't help feeling inspired by her strenght of her character. I suppose I could say something about how great it is to find a book like this when women are so often left out of history books, but it certainly wasn't written as an attempt at political correctness. Olga's story simply had to be told because she was just such an amazing person.