The Book Smugglers is an example of one of those rare, near-celestial occurrences when a book’s concept, its execution, and its author’s platform of authority all line up like planets to produce an extraordinary book. Historian David Fishman is the foremost authority on the Jews of the Vilna ghetto and the incredible lengths they went to in saving priceless books and artifacts from the Nazis, and then again from the Soviets. A moving and very human story told with intelligence and style, winner of the National Jewish Book Award in Holocaust History.