This is a remarkable book written by a young girl and the young are not afraid of telling the truth. It is one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war and its impact on humanbeings that I have ever read. Anne Frank's account of the changes wrought upon eight people hiding out from the Nazis for two years during the occupation of Holland, living in constant fear and isolation, imprisoned not only by the terrible outward circum-stances of war but inwardly by themselves, made me intimately and shockingly aware of war's great-est evil - the degradation of the human spirit.