1922-

Looks at the world of microorganisms.

Contains the memoirs of Holocaust survivor Ruth Elias and chronicles her life from a small Czechoslovakian town, to the infamous death camp at Auschwitz where she faced possible experimentation by Dr. Josef Mengele, to new challenges after the war in Israel.

The author recounts the shape her life took at the hands of the Nazis, describing her forced relocation to the Theresienstadt ghetto near Prague at the age of nineteen, where she dreamed of becoming an actress; her internment at the Auschwitz, Kurzbach, Gross Rosen, Mauthausen, and Bergen-Belsen camps; and her rescue in 1945 by an anonymous British officer.

The story of the men chosen by the Army Air Forces to man the B-24 bombers which made a vital contribution to the Allied victory.