Praise
for Death in Rome
“Katz’ investigation of
the [Ardeatine Caves massacre] is a masterpiece of literature, with brilliant
character sketches, vivid episodes, and an over-all dramatic structure
worthy of a great tragedy. But it is also a masterpiece of historical
scholarship. …It is reinforced by the author’s intimate knowledge of Rome
and the Romans and by his care to collect and evaluate every scrap of
pertinent evidence.” – Chicago Tribune
“Mr. Katz’s book is an exciting,
well-written, and well-documented statement to provide a beginning in
understanding this complex period of history. I couldn’t put it down.
For all libraries.” – Library Journal
“It is a grisly, horrible story,
told quietly, factually, and well. Robert Katz has thoroughly investigated
the sources.” -Publisher’s Weekly
“It is based on careful, extensive
research along with Katz’s natural narrative abilities which intensify
the documentary horror of what occurred. … the tragic story of resistance
to tyranny and expensive price which men of courage pay.” – Kirkus
Reviews
“A movingly written account of
the deeds of two grisly days…” – Cleveland Press
“Brilliantly conceived addition
to World War II.” – Minneapolis Tribune
“Intensely interesting.” –
Book-of-the-Month Club News
“Compelling.” – Bestsellers
Praise
for Black Sabbath
“On the simplest level, the story unfolds with the quiet suspense and
terror of a novel of mass murder. It is developed, rationally, logically,
in such underplayed terms that the grotesque becomes commonplace, familiar,
and, in the end, frightful and shocking, a mockery of life as we think
we know it. … As the result of Robert Katz’s work, which is concerned
with good and evil – the Jews are almost incidental, even though he focuses
on their plight – the problem of morality becomes immediate, real, and
universal. It goes beyond the “Jewish question.” It involves us all in
the struggle against tyranny, injustice, and evil wherever and however
practiced, no matter against whom. … Through meticulous research and a
careful piecing together of evidence, Katz has reconstructed the awful
event with brilliance, clarity, and compassion.” — Martin Blumenson,
Washington Star
“… a combination of carefully organized facts and compelling literary
style. … unforgettable touches … his extremely moving volume comes close
to matching John Hersey’s achievement in The Wall." —
Gordon C. Zahn, Boston Sunday Globe.
“Robert Katz tells the story of this
barbaric crime so beautifully, even with all its pain and horror, that
it stands out … This is a book that no reader can easily put down.” —
Publishers Weekly
“… an account fascinating in its horror, intriguing in its complexity,
and affective in its style, well worth the attention of the general reader.”
— Virginia Kirkus.
“Mr. Katz has been brilliantly successful
in piecing together the story of the razzia. … Equally excellent is Mr.
Katz’s description of the long journey in freight cars from Rome Auschwitz.
… Mr. Katz has presented an extremely moving, well written and well documented
story, and it is unlikely that much more can ever be added to it. ...”
Times Literary Supplement.
Praise
for Days of Wrath
“Katz argues with great ingenuity...he
reveals with pitiless detail how the media twisted every event to show
Moro as a a human wreck when all along he was playing the master game
of his political life. ... Anyone who can be moved by the pity and terror
of a modern tragedy will want to read this book." – Washington Post
“Katz has meticulously researched
an angry book describing a Machiavellian Rome in which Moro battled .”
–New Statesman
“Robert Katz has now reconstructed
what happened...a skilful book in which the arts of a thriller writer
are combined with the critical curiosity of a reporter.” -Times of
London
“The whole saga is re-told in
vivid detail.” – Sunday Telegraph
“This is a staggering piece of
investigative reporting - and surely one of the most meticulously researched
books in contemporary history. It is a brilliantly written reconstruction
- brought out of shadow into glaring light - of the Moro tragedy in Italy.”
– Gerold Frank
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