Holocaust Journey: Travelling In Search Of The Past

Informationen zum Autor Born in London in 1936, Sir Martin Gilbert was educated at Highgate School and Magdalene College, Oxford. An outstanding historian of the 20th century, he became the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill in 1968 and has written to great acclaim on the Holocaust and the events of the Second World War. Klappentext A personal, powerful and unforgettable journey to the key Holocaust sites giving a unique history of a 20th-century catastrophe. With a new Foreword by Rob Rinder Vorwort With a new Foreword by Rob Rinder A personal, powerful and unforgettable journey to the key Holocaust sites giving a unique history of a 20th-century catastrophe. Zusammenfassung Includes 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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Born in London in 1936, Sir Martin Gilbert was educated at Highgate School and Magdalene College, Oxford. An outstanding historian of the 20th century, he became the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill in 1968 and has written to great acclaim on the Holocaust and the events of the Second World War.

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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' TLS

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With a new Foreword by Rob RinderA personal, powerful and unforgettable journey to the key Holocaust sites giving a unique history of a 20th-century catastrophe.