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Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times (1st Edition) by Eyal Press, Thant Myint-U Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2012 ISBN-10: 0-374-14342-0 / 0374143420 ISBN-13: 978-0-374-14342-8 / 9780374143428 On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a century later, a Serb from the war-blasted city of Vukovar defies his superiors in order to save the lives of Croats. At the height of the Seco |