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The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | Martin Gilbert | | Publisher: | Owl Books (NY) | | Release date: | 01 April, 1987 | | List price: | $24.00 |
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Testimony |
| This is a book of annotated testomonies organized as if the whole constitutes a chronological history of Hitler's war against the Jews. One might call this a "holy book" since it gives voice to the witnesses and some meaning to what what they endured. For the reader, the struggle is to sustain the attitude of awe, rage and deep sorrow. Working against this effect on the reader is the human desire to deny ("This can't be true") or to remain affectively removed or numb. Rarely does a book buyer feel he or she has "an obligation" to buy a book, but perhaps this is one book that one "ought" to own and to read and to cry over. |
| The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War - Martin Gilbert |
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The bloody truth |
For those with a self hurting desire to know the whole horrible truth about the bloody act of social engineering known to history as The Holocaust, this book is one of the best eye opening and stomach churning works on the subject.
Having such a desire, this was one of the first books on the subject I purchased and read from beginning to end.
It was very painful to read. Every horrible event well described without being graphic or overdone. Better than diet pills for killing one's appetite. All the horrible things that happened.
How did something as this happen?
Read this book and learn. |
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There are no words |
There are no words to describe the Evils written about in this book. But the words Martin Gilbert has do describe with historical precision the destruction of the Jews of Europe by the Nazis and their various allies. The book is difficult and painful to read because of the horrible stories it tells. And as one reviewer on Amazon has said this is a record not of one crime but of thousands of crimes done every day, not of one cruelty but of millions of cruelties. One of the features of this historical accounting which may seem to some to disturb the flow of the overall historical narrative but which to me seemed to give tremendous weight and power of the book is the account of individual lives, the stories of those people who actually suffered and went through the Shoah. Naming of names in this way, and telling the stories of the ' little people' seems to me to give the account a human strength that more general accounts lack.
This work is as I said very difficult to read because of its painful subject matter. Reading it one certainly learns about ' man's inhumanity to man' the cruelty Mankind is capable of. One learns to know how certain specific peoples seem to display special tendencies for that cruelty. One learns about the worst chapter in all of Jewish history , and of the surviving remnant of it.
Who wishes to know and understand the full character of human history must read this book, or one like it.
G-d help us all. |
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