Levi’s book covers the year or so that the author was incarcerated in Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi death camp. Luckily for Primo, he was taken there just before the camp was liberated so he escaped to tell the tale. This book covers that time in the camp, the machinations between the people inside, and those outside and it makes for interesting reading. We will hopefully never experience a situation like this ourself, and reading a first hand account of it should help us stop it happening again.