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The Holocaust : a history of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War
- Title
- The Holocaust : a history of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War / Martin Gilbert.
- Author
- Gilbert, Martin, 1936-2015.
- Publication
- New York : H. Holt, 1987, c1985.
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Details
- Description
- 959 p., [20] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Sets the scene with a brief history of anti-Semitism prior to Hitler, and documents the horrors of the Holocaust from 1933 onward, in an incisive, interpretive account of the genocide of World War II.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [831]-896) and index.
- Contents
- First steps to iniquity -- 1933: the shadow of the swastika -- Towards disinheritance -- After the nuremberg laws -- "Hunted like rats" -- Seeds of a terrible vengeance -- September 1939: the trapping of polish jewry -- 'Blood of innocents' -- 1940: 'a wave of evil' -- War in the west: terror in the east -- January-June 1941: the spreading net -- 'It cannot happen!' -- Crime without a name -- Write and record -- Final solution -- Eye-witness to mass murder -- 20 January 1942: the Wannsee conference -- Journey into the unknown -- Another journey into the unknow -- If they have enough time, we are lost -- Avenge our tormented people -- From Warsaw to Treblinka: these disatrous and horrible days -- Autumn 1942: at a faster pace -- The most horrible of all horrors -- September-November 1942: the spread of resistance -- To save at least someone -- Help me get more trains -- Warsaw, April 1943: hopeless days of revolt -- Crashing fires of hell -- To perish, but with honour -- Page of glory never to be written -- Do not think our spirit is broken -- One should like so much to live a little bit longer -- From the occupation of Hungary to the Normandy landings -- May one cry now -- July-September 1944: the last deportations -- September 1944: the days of awe -- Revolt at Birkenau -- Protectors and persecutors -- Death marches -- Tainted luck of survival.
- Call Number
- *PXK 11-2281
- ISBN
- 0805003487
- 9780805003482
- OCLC
- 16393006
- Author
- Gilbert, Martin, 1936-2015.
- Title
- The Holocaust : a history of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War / Martin Gilbert.
- Imprint
- New York : H. Holt, 1987, c1985.
- Edition
- 1st Owl Book ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [831]-896) and index.
- LCCN
- 85005523
- Research Call Number
- *PXK 11-2281