Elie Wiesel - Dawn

‘Dawn’ is the story of a morally complex Israeli partisan who has been ordered to kill a captured British officer in retaliation for the British having killed a Jewish prisoner in occupied Palestine.

The book follows the narrator’s arguments for and against the killing and the dilemma he faces.  It will rattle the conscience of every reader. 

Dawn by Elie Wiesel, Bantam, ISBN 0-553-22536-7