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Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed
Author: ART SPIEGELMAN
Binding: Paperback
Published: 19 October, 1993
ISBN: 0679748407
$19.04
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Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed
by: ART SPIEGELMAN
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
Simply THE best book on the holocaust: 
Art Spiegelman's book, "Maus", is an incredible oral history of the holocaust. It is, by far, one of the most intimate chronicles on the holocaust. The symbolic choices of characters (mice- jewish, cat- german) is incredible, as is the unfolding drama of Art's father's experiences throughout the holocaust.
Truth be told, I knew almost nothing about the holocaust until I read this book. Suddenly, it dawned on me that our history books have seriously overlooked this major event in world history. I have... more info
Incredibly powerful. A book you'll never forget:
After everything you've ever read or seen about the Holocaust, you still need to read this book. It's an experience unlike any other, because it's the only comic book (as a lifelong fan, I can't call them graphic novels, which I feel is only a term used to generate mainstream acceptance) ever created to specifically focus in on this issue and tell the story of a Holocaust survivor. And being a comic, Maus has advantages over just about every other medium of communication. The text allows Spiegelman to go... more info
Yet Another Sanctimonious Telling of the Holocaust: 
This is yet another sanctimonious telling of the Holocaust. Maus is the blatant type of trivialization being taught to our children that leaves most unaware of the other victims of the holocaust. For American school children the Holocaust has become synomous with Jewish history. Maus simply reinforces most historical literature which focuses on the six million Jewish victims to the exclusion of the nine million Gentile victims. This book goes so far as to portray one of the Nazis other targets, the Poles,... more info
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