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Title: Necessary, but not particularly inspiring
Review: A book of this kind has long been needed. Friedman attempts to cover all the main victim groups although she was not successful in finding Survivors from all groups. Gay victims, for example, are mentioned but there is no account of an individual. Although the accounts are described as "first-person stories", they are all retold in Friedman's rather dull writing style which gives a sense of unity at the expense of expressing divergence. It would have been much more effective to have heard the Survivor's own accounts rather than Friedman's retellings of their stories. Overall, the book comes accross as a text book. Useful for teaching, but unlikely to be read without adult coercion.
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