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Prose: non-fiction, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, History: specific events & topics, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, The Holocaust, Second World War, Jewish studies
A personal, powerful and unforgettable journey to the key Holocaust sites giving a unique history of a 20th-century catastrophe.
'Filled with short, well-informed and often heart-rending accounts of the fate of the Jews' TLSIncludes a new foreword by Rob Rinder
What readers are saying about HOLOCAUST JOURNEY:
'Brilliant ... A must read for everybody' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Devastating' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Fascinating, thought provoking and shocking' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Everybody should read this' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Informative and emotional' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
In June 1996 Martin Gilbert took a group of students on a two-week journey across middle-Europe which encompassed all the major places in the Holocaust - from Wannsee where the extermination of the Jews was decreed, to the camps themselves, via deserted Jewish communities and synagogues as well as the sites of the ghettos and deportation.
'The achievement of Gilbert's HOLOCAUST JOURNEY is to reduce to comprehensible, human terms of the scale of the genocide that to many is still unimaginable' LITERARY REVIEW
'Filled with short, well-informed and often heart-rending accounts of the fate of the Jews' TLS
'HOLOCAUST JOURNEY travels along the tracks of a history we would rather forget to the sites of wartime horror, and is also a moving excavation of the past' INDEPENDENT
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Praise for Holocaust Journey: Travelling In Search Of The Past
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Eloquent ... He presents a painless-to-read and painful-to-understand voyage to some of the grimmest and most unspeakable names and places on earth - DAILY MAIL
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HOLOCAUST JOURNEY travels along the tracks of a history we would rather forget to the sites of wartime horror, and is also a moving excavation of the past - INDEPENDENT
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Gilbert depicts with infinite pathos and painstaking detail the cataclysm that hit the Jews of Europe when Germany's armies were unleashed upon their territories. In a skilful combination of past and present, he presents his travelogue in a form that is easily accessible to all, that moves us deeply with its tale of endless atrocities and utter human misery - JEWISH CHRONICLE
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Gilbert's knowledge of his subject, and his contacts across the blood-stained landscape of the Holocaust, make him an ideal organizer of such a tour ... As one would expect from Gilbert, the account is well-informed and well-written ... the book is filled with short, well-informed and often heart-rending accounts of the fate of the Jews - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Martin Gilbert
Martin Gilbert is the Official Biographer of Sir Winston Churchill; his prolific output on this subject includes the one-volume biography, Churchill: A Life. Among his other books are: First World War, Second World War, D-Day and The Day the War Ended, as well as a magisterial three-volume History of The Twentieth Century, and twelve historical atlases. Martin Gilbert was knighted in 1995. Two years later he was awarded a Doctorate of Literature at Oxford University for the totality of his historical work.
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