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Author: Peter Longerich (Professor of Modern German History, Royal Holloway, University of London)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 1.123kg
ISBN: 9780192804365
ISBN 10: 0192804367
Pages: 672
Publication Date: 15 April 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Important study. Times Literary Supplement A landmark in Holocaust hisory. William Chislett, El Imparacial Madrid Superb and provocative work...A vital addition to the field of Holocaust studies. Booklist Skeptics who maintain there is little of value left to learn about the Holocaust should read this. Booklist
A profound study... it supplies the best account we have of the relationship between anti-Semitism and mass murder, and conveys a melancholy plausibility. New York Review of Books Carefully written, scholarly, and measured in tone, it deserves to be in the library of everyone interested in the history. Times Literary Supplement, Richard J Evans [Holocaust: The Nazi persecution and murder of the Jews] must surely be the most thorough and reliable account of Nazi policy... Carefully written, scholarly, and measured in tone, it deserves to be in the library of everyone interested in the history of the greatest genocide in history. Times Literary Supplement, Richard J. Evans' book of the year. d Longerich has reconstructed and imposed as much narrative order as possible on a tangle of political, military, and administrative processes. The Atlantic, A Book of the Year. The Atlantic Meticulous...magisterial...Longerich's monumental work will hereafter be referred to as the classic text to study. Chicago Jewish Star Important study. Times Literary Supplement A landmark in Holocaust hisory. William Chislett, El Imparacial Madrid Superb and provocative work...A vital addition to the field of Holocaust studies. Booklist Skeptics who maintain there is little of value left to learn about the Holocaust should read this. Booklist
Carefully written, scholarly, and measured in tone, it deserves to be in the library of everyone interested in the history. Times Literary Supplement, Richard J Evans [Holocaust: The Nazi persecution and murder of the Jews] must surely be the most thorough and reliable account of Nazi policy... Carefully written, scholarly, and measured in tone, it deserves to be in the library of everyone interested in the history of the greatest genocide in history. Time Literary Supplement, Richard J. Evans' book of the year. 3/12/2010 Longerich has reconstructed and imposed as much narrative order as possible on a tangle of political, military, and administrative processes. The Atlantic, A Book of the Year. The Atlantic Meticulous...magisterial...Longerich's monumental work will hereafter be referred to as the classic text to study. Chicago Jewish Star Important study. Times Literary Supplement A landmark in Holocaust hisory. William Chislett, El Imparacial Madrid Superb and provocative work...A vital addition to the field of Holocaust studies. Booklist Skeptics who maintain there is little of value left to learn about the Holocaust should read this. Booklist
Author Information
Peter Longerich is Professor of Modern German History and Director of the Research Centre for the Holocaust and Twentieth-Century History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published widely on the subject, in English and German, including The Unwritten Order: Hitler's Role in the Final Solution, and The Systematic Character of the National Socialist Policy for the Extermination of the Jews. The latter formed part of his Expert Opinion in the notorious David Irving v. Penguin/Lipstadt trial. He is currently working on a biography of SS leader Heinrich Himmler.
