If This is a Man: Remembering Auschwitz. A 3-in-1 Volume: Survival in Auschwitz, the Reawakening, Moments of Reprieve

Primo Levi was born in Turin, Italy, in 1919 and was trained as a chemist. Arrested as a member of the antifascist resistance, he was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and spent ten months there. This 3-in-1 volume of "Survival in Auschwitz", "The Reawakening", and "Moments of Reprieve", containing some of the most unforgettable chronicles of our times, tells of Levi's time in the hell of a Nazi death camp and the confused, frightening months after liberation. Without self-pity, but with passion, intensity and even humor, Levi recounts being thrust in 1944, at the age of 25, from ordinary life into a world of systematic cruelty, where survival depended on unspoken, illogical rules, where pain and death were a daily presence. Equally fascinating are all his portraits of the unusual companions, prisoners and guards, who fought to survive - and to hold on to the memory of what it felt like to be human. It is a classic of literature.