Diary of a Young Girl (PREMIUM PAPERBACK PENGUIN INDIA) (Paperback)

9780143455257. New condition. Mass-market paperback. Language: English. B-format paperback. In the summer of 1942 thirteen-year-old Anne Frank found herself hiding with her family in the cramped attic of an old office building in Amsterdam. Outside Jews all over Europe were being thrown into concentration camps. Exiled from the outside world the Frankfurt family battled hunger boredom confinement and the ever-looming threat of discovery and death. As the second World War continued to rage Anne turned to her diary and documented everything. The diary was accidentally discovered in the attic shortly after the family was arrested. In 1947 it was formally published in Dutch. Since then Anne Frank s phenomenal diary has become a world classic offering a terrifying glimpse of what it was like being a Jew in a war-ridden Europe. Honest vulnerable and tragic Anne Frank s story serves as a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and as an eloquent testament to the indestructible nature of human spirit.