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Title: The Destruction of the European Jews (Third Edition) by Raul Hilberg ISBN: 0300095570 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $125.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Foundation for Readers
Comment: In my honours year, I chose to write a thesis on the Holocaust, but was unsure which area I should focus on, or base my thesis on. One of the first books I was told to read was Raul Hilberg's "Destruction of the Holocaust". Though the one I read was the condensed version and therefore lacked some of the details of the expanded version, it was a good read and gave me alot of different angles of looking at the Holocaust. Hilberg's book is definitely recommended for someone who is interested in the Holocaust and wants to know more about it, as his book offers alot of other references for students and casual readers alike. I shall be looking into reading the 3 volume version soon. Hilberg's book is the definitive account of the Holocaust as it beings together many aspects of the tragedy. Well written and readable, Hilberg's book will remain an accessible text to turn to for information on the Holocaust.
Rating: 3
Summary: Laborious Reading
Comment: Most of my hobbyist reading involves WWII European history. I was aware of this book since circa 1978, but never got around to reading it until recently. I was disappointed in the book as a whole. Hilberg definitely deserves kudos for his intense and in-depth look at how the Holocaust could occur. However, I would not recommend this book to the casual reader. Its style reminds me more of a law book or a research book with its dry tables and facts. I would use this book to cite facts and figures, but I wouldn't read it again. After the first 100 pages, I found myself looking forward to see how long is the chapter. If I do that, I know I can't get "into" the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: An historical masterpiece.
Comment: More than any other book, this one answers the question, "How did it happen?"
Mr. Hilberg provides the reader with the historical foundations for the Holocaust, and then relates in great detail the entire administrative process, without which the holocaust could not have occurred. I have read the book several times and never cease to be impressed with the thorough understanding and objectivity that Mr. Hilberg lends to the subject.
If you are seeking emotion and high drama, this book is definitely not what you are looking for. But if you want to know how such a horrible thing could have occurred, and the full extent participation by bureaucrats and ordinary citizens, this book is the best by far.
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Title: Perpetrators Victims Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945 by Raul Hilberg ISBN: 0060995076 Publisher: Harper Perennial Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning ISBN: 0060995068 Publisher: Harper Perennial Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt ISBN: 0844659770 Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $26.25 |
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Title: The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian by Raul Hilberg ISBN: 1566634288 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust by Richard Rhodes ISBN: 0375409009 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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