While most of my high school friends and peers were assigned this book in whatever history course they were taking, I somehow managed to avoid reading this book until now.   I now wish that I had read it back then, when I was more impressionable and would have been more shocked by man’s inhumanity to man.  Still, it’s hard to wrap one’s mind around the cruelty and savagery that Wiesel had to endure.  An epic story of survival in the face of unfathomable brutality.