When the First World War began in August 1914 Winston Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty and a rising star in the governing Liberal Party. Less than two years later, he was a colonel on the Western Front, with his political career in tatters. How this talented politician and energetic adminis...
This book gives complete infromation about the Holocaust sites, including some you most likely don't know about. While the focus is on letting the reader know how to get to the sites, there is plently of historical infromation.
I picked this book up because I was looking for more infromation about Bialystok Ghetto, and this book has it. There's a quote from Elie Wiesel on the back of my edition. The quote reads, "This book must be read and reread. It will be painful to you, but you must read it anyway. To know? No. T...
Read By: David CaseCopyright: 1986Audiobook Copyright: 1995Genre: AudiobookPublisher: Books on TapeAbridged: NoBook Description================A poignant introduction by the author (official biographer of Winston Churchill) is followed by his instructive analysis of anti-Semitism in Europe, from Mar...
Martin Gilbert collects and relates first hand experiences of Kristallnacht. At times, the book feels like a loosely connected series of mini-narratives, but it is so engrossing that this fact doesn't distance the reader. It should be noted that if Gilbert's footnotes are any indication some of th...
Good reference work
Good reference work
This is an excellent book and very well researched, an in depth study of the Holocaust.