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9780805003482

The Holocaust A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War

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  • ISBN13:

    9780805003482

  • ISBN10:

    0805003487

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1987-05-15
  • Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

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Summary

Deftly weaving together historical research and survivors' testimonies, The Holcaust is Gilbert's acclaimed and definitive history of the European Jews, fom Hitler's rise to power to Germany's surrender to the liberation of the prisoners of the concentration camps.

Author Biography

One of Britain's most distinguished historians, Martin Gilbert was knighted in 1995. A fellow of Merton College, Oxford, he is also the official biographer of Winston Churchill. Among his books are The Holocaust, The Second World War, Churchill: A Life, Auschwitz and the Allies, The First World War, and Never Again.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 13(4)
Preface 17(2)
First steps to iniquity
19(13)
1933: the shadow of the swastika
32(10)
Towards disinheritance
42(8)
After the Nuremberg Laws
50(7)
`Hunted like rats'
57(9)
`The seeds of a terrible vengeance'
66(18)
September 1939: the trapping of Polish Jewry
84(15)
`Blood of innocents'
99(10)
1940: `a wave of evil'
109(10)
War in the West: terror in the East
119(18)
January--June 1941: the spreading net
137(17)
`It cannot happen!'
154(26)
`A crime without a name'
180(33)
`Write and record!'
213(28)
The `final solution'
241(11)
Eye-witness to mass murder
252(28)
20 January 1942: the Wannsee Conference
280(14)
`Journey into the unknown'
294(35)
`Another journey into the unknown'
329(23)
`If they have enough time, we are lost'
352(21)
`Avenge our tormented people'
373(14)
From Warsaw to Treblinka: `these disastrous and horrible days'
387(15)
Autumn 1942: `at a faster pace'
402(17)
`The most horrible of all horrors'
419(47)
September--November 1942: the spread of resistance
466(28)
`To save at least someone'
494(32)
`Help me get more trains'
526(31)
Warsaw, April 1943: hopeless days of revolt
557(11)
`The crashing fires of hell'
568(24)
`To perish, but with honour'
592(19)
`A page of glory...never to be written'
611(16)
`Do not think our spirit is broken'
627(21)
`One should like so much to live a little bit longer'
648(14)
From the occupation of Hungary to the Normandy landings
662(23)
`May one cry now?'
685(21)
July--September 1944: the last deportations
706(25)
September 1944: the Days of Awe
731(12)
Revolt at Birkenau
743(8)
Protectors and persecutors
751(16)
The death marches
767(17)
The `tainted luck' of survival
784(47)
Epilogue: `I will tell the world'
811(20)
Notes and sources 831(66)
Index 897

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