“Porter's going to try and drop us off next to the church. Hopefully, it's early enough that there won't be many people around.” “Porter's our driver?” “Ah, yes. I didn't properly introduce the two of you, did I? Sorry about that.
Subtle revelations lead the reader to a wrenching resolution. This brilliant homage, which won the 2004 Aga Khan Prize for fiction, is the work of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.
Subtle revelations lead the reader to a wrenching resolution. This brilliant homage, which won the 2004 Aga Khan Prize for fiction, is the work of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.
The first ever study to combine a detailed re-appraisal of the development of the genocide of Europe's Jews with full consideration of Nazi policies against other population groups and a comparative analysis of other genocides from the ...
Ultimately, Bloxham shows that an explanation for the Holocaust rooted exclusively in Nazism and anti-Semitism is inadequate when set against one that is both prepared to give due weight to the immediate circumstances of the Second World ...
Drawing on important new research, these authoritative essays focus on the preconditions and antecedents for the 'Final Solution' and examine the immediate origins of the genocidal decision.
Ultimately, Bloxham shows that an explanation for the Holocaust rooted exclusively in Nazism and antisemitism is inadequate when set against one that is both prepared to give due weight to the immediate circumstances of the Second World War ...
The book traces the beginnings of the Holocaust and the Nazi pogroms against the Jews-the Nuremburg Laws, the Week of Broken Glass, the ghettos and deportations-to the extermination camps and gas chambers of Auschwitz, and Nazi actions ...
... Pétain's Crime, pp. 125–6. Marrus and Paxton, Vichy France, p. 261. 43 Warner, Pierre Laval, p. 306. ibid. In his post-war defence, Laval claimed that it was an insult to accuse him of persecuting Jews (Webster, Pétain's Crime, p. 50) ...
The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945
Discusses the origins, development, and implementation of the Final Solution, in which six million Jews were systematically exterminated by the Nazis during World War II.