Dagmar Herzog
…haunting…Nelson is the author of the moving post-9/11 play "The Guys." More pertinent to the strengths of this book are her experiences as a reporter who lived and worked under military dictatorships in Central and South America as well as in post-totalitarian Romania and Cambodia. No doubt those experiences inform the deep sympathy and unsentimental compassion of Red Orchestra, with its story of a tiny band that somehow managed to summon the wild courage to take a stand against a barbarous status quo.—The New York Times