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Product Description The true story of the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during World War II, this book is the base of a movie starring Daniel Craig that will be released December 12, 2008. Review "We are again in the debt of Nechama tec for offering us yet another unforgetable account of heroic Jewish survival in the midst of untold death and destruction with Defiance."--Jewish Spectator "Nechama Tec tells an exciting story of rescuers and fighters--a story that should have been documented years ago. Now that the story has been told, it will undoubtedly be retold, and perhaps with new information and emphases. But most important of all, Defiance will no doubt engender further interest in the subject of Jewish partisan activity."--Social Education "For students of the Holocaust, Nechama Tec's study of the exploits of the Bielski partisans in the forests of Belarus is absolutely essential reading. For the general reader, her book can be read as an exciting adventure story....Professor Tec not only knows how to tell a story, she knows how to recognize a good story when she hears one."--SHOFAR "The saga of the Bielski partisans is one of the most elevating and inspiring stories in the chronicle of death and despair that is the Holocaust....Defiance is an accomplished and startling work of Holocaust documentation."--Los Angeles Times "As a descendant of a Holocaust escqpee, I was practically breast-fed information about this era, but I knew nothing of this amazing chapter in Jewish History before reading nechama Tec's riveting Defiance. Tec interviewed many survivors from the Bielski group, including Tuvia Bielski, to create a meticulous record of a charismatic leader and a hidden Jewish community that survived, despite incredible physical hardships and the constant risk of captrue and execution....Defiance brings to light [Bielski's] incredible heroism in a fscinating account that should erase forever the