“laurence rees”

Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In "Auschwitz," Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time. Their tes... More

When do you think the Second World War ended? If the end of the war was supposed to have brought ‘freedom’ to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation, then for millions it did not really end until the fall of Communism. In the summer of 1945 many of the countries in Eastern Europe simply ... More

Described by "Publishers Weekly" as "a chilling crash course on the Nazis' chaotic rule", the first-hand archival material used for this book casts a harsh new light on the rise and fall of the Third Reich. 109 color and b&w photos.A new edition of the lavishly illustrated companion to the BBC docum... More

The question is as searing as it is fundamental to the continuing debate over Japanese culpability in World War II and the period leading up to it: "How could Japanese soldiers have committed such acts of violence against Allied prisoners of war and Chinese civilians?" During the First World War, th... More