An account of the Nazi liquidation of 1,800 people on an Italian mountainside that draws its strength from the author's careful research and unrhetorical style.
If Ingres had been a photographer he might have arrived at images like Callahan's: subtle, disciplined, but above all as unrhetorical as classical art should be.
It too is plotless, simple narrative, un-propagandist, unrhetorical.