Summary
‘A story that needs to be remembered. It is here told by a real historian.whose style is the more moving by being objective and controlled’ - Hugh Trevor-Roper, The TimesWhen Hitler announced that the result of the war in Europe would be ‘the complete annihilation of the Jews’, he did so in 1942, not only in public, but before an enormous crowd in Berlin. The Allies heard, but, astonishingly, they did not listen.In 1944, Allied reconnaissance pilots, searching out industrial targets in the ar…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780712668064 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0712668063 |
| Author: | Dr Martin Gilbert |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Imprint: | Pimlico |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 5 October 2001 |
| Weight: | 497g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 27mm |
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One cannot write too highly of Martin Gilbert’s industry and literary abilities in making the world aware of the fullness of this hideous tale…A brilliant book
One cannot write too highly of Martin Gilbert’s industry and literary abilities in making the world aware of the fullness of this hideous tale…A brilliant book * Spectator *
Auschwitz is now a name of horror without parallel…Why did it remain relatively unknown for so long? Martin Gilbert has set out to explore this contradiction * Observer *
A story that needs to be remembered. It is here told by a real historian…whose style is the more moving by being objective and controlled – Hugh Trevor-Roper * The Times *
An unforgettable contribution to the history of the last war * Jewish Chronicle *
About The Author
Dr Martin Gilbert
Sir Martin Gilbert CBE was Winston Churchill’s official biographer, and a leading historian of the twentieth century. An honorary fellow at Merton College, Oxford, he was knighted in 1995 ‘for service to British history and international relations’. He died in 2015.
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