Overview
"In Hitler's Shadow War, World War II scholar Donald M. McKale contends that the persecution and murder of the Jews, Slavs, and other groups was Hitler's primary effort during the war, not the conquest of Europe. According to McKale, Hitler and the Nazi leadership used the military campaigns of the war as a cover for a genocidal program that centered on the Final Solution. Hitler continued to commit extensive manpower and materials to this ""shadow war"" even when Germany was losing the battles of the war's closing years."
Full Product Details
Author: Donald M. McKale
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Imprint: Taylor Trade Publishing
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.70cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 22.70cm
Weight: 0.916kg
ISBN: 9781589792944
ISBN 10: 1589792947
Pages: 588
Publication Date: 17 March 2006
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
McKale's book is a stunning achievement. . . . If readers at any level, or any library, were to purchase one book on the Holocaust, Hitler's Shadow War would be the recommended choice.--M. Swartz CHOICE
McKale has provided a fine survey. -- Norman J. W. Goda * Holocaust and Genocide Studies * Hitler's Shadow War offers an incisive introductory survey of the Holocaust from the ideological inception of modern anti-Semitism through the rising tide of anti-Jewish persecution in the 1930s and culminating in the Final Solution. -- Abraham J. Edelheit * Jewish Book World * McKale's book is a stunning achievement. . . . If readers at any level, or any library, were to purchase one book on the Holocaust, Hitler's Shadow War would be the recommended choice. -- M. Swartz * CHOICE * For anyone seeking to come to terms with the depravity of the Holocaust, Hitler's Shadow War will be required reading. -- George Cohen * Booklist * McKale presents a chillingly detailed and documented account of the Nazi insanity motivating the murderous attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe. In view of the massive manpower, construction, transporation, energy, and other resources expended in this task, winning World War II, for the Nazis, was nothing more than a step toward success in the Holocaust. -- Martin Blumenson, Author of <I>Heroes Never Die: Warriors and Warfare in World War II<I> EDITOR'S CHOICE of the History Book Club, March 2003 The distinguishing features of Professor McKale's account are that it is based on the latest scholarship, places the systematic murder of the Jews into its World War II context, and does these things in a very well-written survey that will enlighten and inform the general public as well as specialists. -- Gerhard L. Weinberg, author of A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
EDITOR'S CHOICE of the History Book Club, March 2003The distinguishing features of Professor McKale's account are that it is based on the latest scholarship, places the systematic murder of the Jews into its World War II context, and does these things in a very well-written survey that will enlighten and inform the general public as well as specialists.--Gerhard L. Weinberg Author Of A World At Arms: A Global History Of World War Ii
For anyone seeking to come to terms with the depravity of the Holocaust, Hitler's Shadow War will be required reading.--Cohen, George Booklist
Author Information
Donald McKale is the Class of 1941 Memorial Professor of Humanities in the history department at Clemson University and is the author of Hitler: The Survival Myth, The Nazi Party Courts, and War by Revolution: Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of WWI. He lives in Clemson, South Carolina.
