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A Living Hero’s Story of Courage, Hope, and Determination
Read by Over 30 Million People Worldwide
A Publishers Weekly reviewer called For Those I Loved “the most remarkable [life story] he had ever read” when it was published by Little Brown in 1971.
Author Martin Gray’s story was translated into 26 languages and embraced by over 30 million readers from around the world. Gray received thousands of letters from readers telling him that his story of resisting the Nazis and escaping death again and again, of overcoming despair after losing his Polish family during the Holocaust, and of reviving his will to live after the tragic deaths of his wife and children in a French flash fire inspired readers to live with strength, courage and purpose.
In this revised and updated edition Martin tells how he has transcended the tragedy of losing his family and rebuilt his life and created a new family
Martin Gray tells how he moved on with his life and fathered a new family and in a new edition with an improved translation with a new introduction and a photo-essay about his family. He also traces the his first awareness of the continuing conflict between the Islamic world and the Jewish people and his concerns about the rising anti-semitism today in France and throughout the world.
Book-of-the-month Club News wrote of the first edition, “This man has lived four different lives. Each of the four ought to have killed him…. It’s a story unlike anything you have ever read, and certainly stranger and wilder than all but the most extravagant novels of our time.”
Ever-breathtaking in its scope and powerful range of emotions, For Those I Loved tells the story of the 14-year-old Jewish boy who masterminded a smuggling ring to sneak food into the Warsaw Ghetto to feed his people, and defied death daily—the 17-year-old Martin who escaped death in the Treblinka gas chamber where his mother and siblings perished, and returned to the ghetto to join his father in fighting the Germans—the 19-year-old Martin who became a Russian army officer assigned to hunt down hiding Nazis, but who found that seeking revenge did nothing to heal his wounds—the 35- year-old Martin who, having made a fortune in America, retired to France with his wife and family, only to have everything taken from him again. As always, Gray chose courage over despair, and lived on to “tell the true story”—all for those he loved.
October 2006 • Biography • ISBN 1-57174-511-4 • $17.95
Trade paper w/ 80 b/w photos