Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-12-15
Books mentioned on Part Two: A Tale of Revenge
Robert is joined again by Margaret Killjoy for part two of our annual Christmas non-bastard episode to continue to discuss Nakam, a terrorist group made up of Holocaust survivors who sought vengeance against the Nazis. See omnystudio.
Robert Evans recommended Defiance by Nechama Tec, and discussed Nakam by Dina Porat and The Child to Come by Rebekah Sheldon.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Defiance
Defiance by Nechama Tec is a powerful historical account of the Bielski partisans, a group of Jewish resistance fighters who rescued thousands of Jews in the forests of Nazi-occupied Belarus during World War II.
Recommended“and if you would like to see a reasonably good movie about that starring Daniel Craig uh you can watch the movie Defiance which is about the bielski atriad”
Where to get it
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Nakam
Nakam by Dina Porat is a historical account detailing the post-World War II Jewish vengeance movement against Germans.
Discussed“the ghetto was basically nothing but ashes and Bones as this quote from the book nakam makes clear”
Where to get it
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The Child to Come
Discussed“and I'm going to quote again from the book to come when Jews returned in July 1944 to Kiev and hoped to reoccupy their houses they discovered Ukrainian squatters who refused to vacate”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Rambo : First Blood Part II
“well as as most moral questions are in the movie Rambo first Blood”
Plugged Escape from Incel Island
“I have a book coming out yeah called escape from in cell Island which asks the very important question of what if all of the men who felt like they were owed a Woman by the government got tricked into moving to an island where they were stuck”