THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER AND THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT FOR 30 YEARS.

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER AND THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT FOR 30 YEARS.

'By far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the bestat explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development'Antony Beevor

'Groundbreaking. You might have thought that we know everything there is to know about the Holocaust but this book proves there is much more'Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday**

** Two fundamental questions about the Holocaust must be answered:**

** How did it happen? And why?**

More completely than any other single work of history yet published, Laurence Rees's Holocaust * definitively answers them.'With* The Holocaust *Rees has set himself the task of writingan accessible chronological account of the murder of six million Jews in conditions of scarcely imaginable horror. He's done it excellently*. There is no shortage of books on the Holocaust but Rees's stands out as a readable and authoritative exposition of how and why it happened, and the barbarous methods by which it was pursued. The amount of ground it covers in 500 pages isremarkable-from the anti-Semitism of popular German literature of the 19th century to Hitler's suicide and the surrender of his regime. It'sexcellently writtenand skilfully interweaves narrative history, sound interpretation and the recollections (through interviews, listed in the notes as "previously unpublished testimony") of survivors. Rees providesan exemplary account of how the greatest crime in modern history came about'* The Times 'Rees has distilled25 years of research into this compelling study,the finest single-volume account of the Holocaust. It is not a book for the faint-hearted. Some of the first-hand testimony is bothshocking and heart-rending. Yet it has important things to say about human nature - what our species is capable of doing if not prevented by civilized laws - anddemands to be read' Saul David, Telegraph 'Anyone wanting acompelling, highly readableexplanation of how and why the Holocaust happened,drawing on recent scholarshipand impressively incorporatingmoving and harrowinginterviews need look no further than Laurence Rees'sbrilliantbook' Professor Ian Kershaw, bestselling author of Hitler*