Description
Book SynopsisAn abridged edition of Saul Friedlander's definitive two-volume history of the Holocaust: THE YEARS OF PERSECUTION and THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION.
Trade ReviewThis is a hideous history described with a blend of exemplary scholarship, spiritual detachment and intellectual humility that deserves the very widest readership * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
Friedlander is a world authority on the holocaust but he is also a survivor... his intellectual discipline may be that of the historian but his writing is animated by the passion of memory that only his generation can fully express * OBSERVER *
By the end we understand the events better than any previous historian has managed to explain it, while still feeling bewildered, belittled, and incredulous that it happened, let alone that it happened to him * LITERARY REVIEW *
An account of unparalleled vividness and power that reads like a novel... A masterpiece that will endure * NEW YORK TIMES *
This will be the standard work for many years to come * THE TIMES *
Expressive and forceful; it's difficult to imagine a more comprehensive book about the Holocaust than this * SUNDAY BUSINESS POST *
