Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution by Laurence Rees (English) Paperback

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We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder in history - part death camp, part concentration camp, where around a million Jews were killed.

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The definitive history of Auschwitz republished for Holocaust Memorial Day, launching a newly rebranded series of landmark Rees titlesTHE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Superb' ANDREW ROBERTSIn this classic book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder in history - part death camp, part concentration camp, where around a million Jews were killed.Auschwitz examines the mentality and motivations of the key Nazi decision makers, and perpetrators of appalling crimes speak here for the first time about their actions. Drawing on Rees's landmark documentary and material from the Russian archives, which challenged many previously accepted arguments, this book reveals significant and disturbing facts - from the operation of a brothel to the corruption that was rife throughout the camp.This is the story of murder, brutality, courage, escape and survival, and a powerful account of how human tragedy of such immense scale could have happened.

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Examines the mentality and motivations of the key Nazi decision makers, and perpetrators of appalling crimes speak here for the first time about their actions. Photographic plates throughout.

Author Biography

Laurence Rees is the critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of a large canon of books, including Auschwitz- The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'. His longstanding career as a writer and filmmaker, focusing on the Nazis and World War II, includes the acclaimed television series Nazis- A Warning from History, War of the Century, Horror in the East and Auschwitz- The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'. The body of work has won him a myriad of awards including a BAFTA. a Grierson Award and an international Documentary Award. He was educated at Oxford University and held the post of Creative Director of BBC TV History programmes.

Review

"Thank God that occasionally books of the stature of Laurence Rees's superb Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution are published... Fascinating." -- Andrew Roberts Evening Standard "Excellent" -- Boyd Tonkin The Independent "A key to understanding man's inhumanity to man" -- Ian Thomson The Guardian "Well-written with striking testimonies from bystanders, perpetrators and victims. The interviews with SS men, and sundry European Fascists, are genuinely revealing, and must have been exceptionally difficult to negotiate" -- Michael Burleigh Daily Telegraph "Devastating. Rees's research is impeccable and intrepid. Ultimately he does at the gut level what Hannah Arendt achieved some 40 years ago at the level of philosophy: he forces the reader to shift the Holocaust out of the realm of nightmare or Gothic horror and acknowledge it as something all too human. Scrupulous and honest, this book is utterly without illusions" -- David Von Drehle Washington Post, USA

Promotional

An excellent history of Auschwitz with an intellectual honesty that the subject badly needs

Prizes

Winner of British Book Awards: History Book of the Year 2006

Review Text

Thank God that occasionally books of the stature of Laurence Rees's superb Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution are published... Fascinating.

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The definitive history of Auschwitz

Details ISBN0563522968 Author Laurence Rees ISBN-10 0563522968 ISBN-13 9780563522966 Format Paperback Imprint BBC Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Replaces 9780563521174 DEWEY 940.531853858 Illustrations Illustrations (some col.) Birth 1957 Media Book Pages 400 Language English Publisher Ebury Publishing Short Title Auschwitz Subtitle The Nazis and the Final Solution UK Release Date 2005-09-01 Year 2005 Publication Date 2005-09-01 AU Release Date 2005-09-01 NZ Release Date 2005-09-01 Alternative 9781448140466 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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