Here is the unparalleled account of the most awesome and awful chapter in the moral history of humanity. Lucid, chilling and comprehensive, Lucy S. Dawidowicz's classic tells the complete story of the Nazi Holocaust-from the insidious evolution of German Anti-Semitism to the ultimate tragedy of the Final Solution.
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Holocaust:
A detailed description of the most horrible time in modern history. The author has compiled a book with grim statistics of the annilition of European Jewry. Of all the books I have read about this tragic time, Ms. Davidowitz has captured the horror of the "Final Solution".
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Relentlessly inaccurate:
Lucy Dawidowicz's "The War Against the Jews" tends to be one of the first one-volume works on the Holocaust that most people read, me included. One reason for this is that it's not very long: it's about half as long as Martin Gilbert's "The Holocaust", to name another one-volume book on the subject. Another reason is that it came out in the 1970s when the general reading public suddenly became fascinated with the Holocaust. Dawidowicz's book sold many copies, and is still regarded by many people as one of... more info
in one volume:
Anyone looking for a single volume history of the Holocaust should start with this one. It is not an easy read, but it is informative and works well as a reference book. The table of contents sets up the material well, though it is by no means encyclopedic. The writing is straight forward, allowing the facts to speak so that readers make value judgments for themselves. The starkness of the tone serves as a reminder of how the Third Reich went about its final solution to the Jewish question, business as... more info
