A marvelous storyteller, Ackerman recalls madcap, bohemian Warsaw before WWII, the devastation of the city by Nazi bombs in 1939, the horrors of the holocaust and heroic efforts in the resistance in this moving tale of Antonina and Jan Zabinski, directors of Warsaw Zoo. All told against the backdrop of a devastated city, Ackerman effectively weaves the Zabinski's efforts on behalf of the zoo and its beleaguered tenants with the tale of their remarkable courage in the resistance, harboring Jewish friends and colleagues in their home and helping to smuggle hundreds to safety.  (PLD70, $24.95)