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Book Review of Girl in the Cellar: The Natascha Kampusch Story

Girl in the Cellar: The Natascha Kampusch Story
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Eight years of Darkness.
On March 2, 1998 while on her way to school, ten year old Natascha Kampusch was abducted. More than eight years later, on August 23, 2006, she escaped with a story that shocked and hoffified the world. She spent the most delicate years of her life hidden in a cellar underneath an ordinary Austrian susburban home. How was she able to survive? What sort of woman had emerged? What kind of man was Wolfgang Priklopil, her abductor-and what demands had he made of her?
Journalists Allan Hall and Michael Leidig covered Natascha's story from the beginning. The result of extrordinary investigative reporting, Girl In The Cellar gets to the heart of this very tragic case to reveal a truth no one would have imagined.
"In this thorough account, journalists Hall and Leidig uncover the details of the disturbing abduction and entrapment and the suprising strength of the young captive." -New York Daily News