{"product_id":"final-solution-9780330535373","title":"Final Solution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Cesarani was internationally recognized as one of this generation's leading Jewish and Holocaust scholars. He was research professor in History at Royal Holloway. He was nominated for a Golden Dagger and was a finalist for the US National Jewish Book Award for History in 2009 for \u003ci\u003eMajor Farran's Hat\u003c\/i\u003e. His biography of Adolf Eichmann was winner of the National Jewish Book Award in 2006 and has been translated into a dozen languages. Earlier books include an acclaimed biography of Arthur Koestler and the controversial \u003ci\u003eJustice Delayed\u003c\/i\u003e, the story of how Britain became a haven for Nazi war criminals after the end of the war. He had extensive broadcasting and print media experience. In 2005 he was awarded an OBE for his work in the establishment of Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK and was a trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. He also served on the UK delegation to the International Task Force for Holocaust Remembrance, Education and Research. He died in 2015 and \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant synthesis and interpretation of the greatest crime of the modern era\u003c\/b\u003e . . . There is so much of value in this \u003cb\u003eharrowing and extraordinary book\u003c\/b\u003e that it's hard to encompass in a review . . . There are stories here I didn't know and could scarcely have imagined . . . \u003cb\u003eA book that demands to be read and deserves every historical award going.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Oliver Kamm * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an elegantly written, honest and plausible account and it deserves to be widely read and reflected upon in a continent where racial and religious prejudice is not as far below the surface as we would like to think. \u003ci\u003eFinal Solution\u003c\/i\u003e is a fitting monument to a fine historian and a fine human being. -- Richard Overy * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eMasterly . . . \u003ci\u003eFinal Solution \u003c\/i\u003ewill take its place among the most authoritative surveys of the persecution and murder of European Jewry in the Second World War * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eA masterpiece . . . dense with fascinating detail, so very well written, and so passionately and compellingly argued * Jewish Chronicle *\u003cbr\u003eWith his ability to bring coherence to the confusion of genocide and connect those narratives to geopolitical events, Cesarani makes us rethink the Holocaust * Prospect *\u003cbr\u003eTraces a path across a vast mass of material - new and old - demonstrating with urgency and verve how Hitler's progress towards mass extermination of the Jews was never pre-planned or preordained . . . utterly convincing . . . One of Cesarani's most remarkable achievements is to reinvigorate this monstrous narrative -- Sarah Helm * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eLengthy, compelling and devastating . . . a powerful and intensely moving account, drawing on the diaries and letters of those who suffered and died as well as the historical accounts and bland instructions of the remorseless killers. * Irish Independent *\u003cbr\u003eIt is difficult not to be first moved and then overwhelmed by the mere listing of what happened, and in this respect Cesarani has fulfilled his ambition of reclaiming the killings of the Jews for another generation. * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eWith his clear, detailed analysis, Cesarani has written a definitive study of the Holocaust that succeeds in bridging the gap between academia and popular understanding. -- Lisa Pine * BBC History Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, the book's greatest strength lies less in rewriting the Holocaust then in chronicling it with vivid and synoptic vision . . . few if any have traced as well as David Cesarani does the global skeins of influence, ideas and power on which Jewish fates hung. -- Mark Roseman * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection - i: Maps Section - ii: List of Illustrations Acknowledgements - iii: Acknowledgements Introduction - iv: Introduction Section - v: Prologue Chapter - One: The First Year 1933 Chapter - Two: Judenpolitik 1937-1938 Chapter - Three: Pogrom 1938-1941 Chapter - Four: War 1939-1941 Chapter - Five: Barbarossa 1941 Chapter - Six: Final Solution 1942 Chapter - Seven: Total War 1943 Chapter - Eight: The Last Phase 1944-1945 Section - vi: Epilogue Section - vii: Conclusion Section - viii: Glossary Section - ix: Bibliography Section - x: Notes Index - xi: Index\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401792758103,"sku":"9780330535373","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780330535373.jpg?v=1730478540","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/final-solution-9780330535373","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}