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  • Parting Words

  • An extraordinary 100-year-old man’s 9 lessons for living a life to be proud of
  • By: Benjamin Ferencz
  • Narrated by: Allan Corduner, Nadia Khomami
  • Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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Parting Words

By: Benjamin Ferencz
Narrated by: Allan Corduner, Nadia Khomami
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Summary

What a century of life experience can teach us about happiness, ambition, courage, love and how to make the most of the lives we've been given.

How many people do you know grew up as a poor immigrant in America during the Great Depression, won a scholarship to Harvard Law School, landed on the beaches of Normandy on D Day, were present at the liberation of concentration camps including Buchenwald, Mauthausen and Flossenburg, held leading Nazis to account at the Nuremberg trials and have fought for an International Criminal Court to hold war criminals to account the world over?

Now you know one. 

Benjamin Ferencz turned 100 in 2020. In this extraordinary book, he shares his remarkable life story and the nine humble, compelling and life-affirming lessons he's learned along the way that we can all harness for ourselves.

©2020 Benjamin Ferencz (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK
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"I don't know where to stop praising Benny and this amazing book...." (Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz)  

"This book...is the stuff folk tales are made of. How wonderful that sometimes they are true." (Martin Freeman) 

"Warm, wise and inspiring - a book for our times by one of the world's most remarkable human beings." (Philippe Sands, author of East West Street and The Ratline)

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  • 07-01-21

Wonderful!!

Inspirational , I am so glad that I have this book,a must listen for everyone!

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Wonderful

The humble musings of a remarkable man. This book is a delight and an absolute must read.

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short but great life

Benjamin Ferencz has certainly led a remarkable life. Born in Hungary as Jew who had to escape from the ongoing evils of the Hitlers Nazi Party, he came to Americal and grew up in Hells Kitchen. He got an education, fell in love and married, had 4 children and did law - ending up prosecuting the evils that had sent 6 million Jews and many others to their deaths in the concentration camps they built in Europe. And in this short book, he tells his story and the lessons he has learnt during his 100 years on the planet. It is a very inspiring book,

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