The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba KovnerThe Fall of a Sparrow is the only full biography in English of the partisan, poet, and patriot Abba Kovner (1918 1987). An unsung and largely unknown hero of the Second World War and Israel's War of Independence, Kovner was born in Vilna, the Jerusalem of Lithuania. Long before the rest of the world suspected, he was the first person to state that Hitler was planning to kill the Jews of Europe. Kovner and other defenders of the Vilna ghetto, only