Some people may feel that we have been fed a glut of Holocaust stories in the past decade, but this is very much the genuine article. It concerns Marianne Strauss, a young German Jewess whose family was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943; somehow she managed to slip away, and with the help of some underground groups managed to last out the two remaining years of the war. They were years of terror, which she barely survived at the height of the Nazi tyranny, living on her wits and on her luck. After the war she married an Englishman and moved to his country, where Roseman, a historian, discovered her in old age and induced her to tell her story. Though the material is wholly authentic, the treatment is sometimes tendentious and the book would have gained by cutting.