The Holocaust

A New History

De: Laurence Rees

Narrado por: Eric Vale

“This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development.”―Antony Beevor, bestselling author of Stalingrad

Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines their never-before-seen eyewitness testimony with the latest academic research to create a uniquely accessible and authoritative account of the Holocaust.

In The Holocaust, Rees offers an examination of the decision-making process of the Nazi state, and in the process reveals the series of escalations that cumulatively created the horror. He argues that while hatred of the Jews was always at the epicenter of Nazi thinking, what happened cannot be fully understood without considering the murder of the Jews alongside plans to kill large numbers of non-Jews, including the disabled, Sinti, and Roma, plus millions of Soviet civilians.

Through a chronological, intensely readable narrative, featuring enthralling eyewitness testimony and the latest academic research, this is a compelling new account of the worst crime in history.

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Contributed magnificently to the vast corpus of Holocaust literature.... Serve[s] as an excellent guide for the perplexed.”—Wall Street Journal

“Rees has compiled a readable, moving, and comprehensive overview of this scholarship, enlivened by vivid first‑person reminiscences... Readers looking for a single‑volume history of the Holocaust will have trouble finding one better than this.”—ForeignAffairs

“Rees has spent his life researching, writing, and making documentaries about the Holocaust, and his new book is full of facts and stories that landed on the cutting‑room floor when he was editing his other works. It is a long and detailed explanation of why the Holocaust happened, of why Hitler was embraced by millions, of why what's thought of by many as an aberration wasn't an aberration at all but a result of all the history and politics and religion and prejudice that went on for centuries before.”—Boston Globe

“Anyone wanting a compelling, highly readable explanation of how and why the Holocaust happened, drawing on recent scholarship and impressively incorporating moving and harrowing interviews with victims as well as chilling accounts by perpetrators, need look no further than Rees's brilliant book.”—Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of To Hell and Back and Hitler, A Biography

“A masterpiece... Rees' best book yet”—Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War

“This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development.”—Antony Beevor, bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin, and The Second World War

Excellent

It’s true, it really just take 19 hrs to give even just a overview of the nazis and Jews. Not any wasted time in this book, I was a bit worried at first when I saw the length of it. I did read some reviews about the narrator. Either they fixed some pronunciations (from the edits it sounds like it). Or people are just very sensitive about something that matters very little. I thought the narrator was excellent

a great read!

I love this book and all the information FedEx so eloquently laid out. unlike other reviews, I did not have a problem with the voice of the narrator, in fact I quite liked it.

Worst narrator EVER!

Almost couldn’t listen due to mispronunciations of common German words, names, etc. Distracting and completely avoidable.

a book well worth your time to listen to.

very moving and fact based well worth the time spent listening to. It makes you remember to not forget history so it won't happen again.

The content of our character is revealed in crises.

Laurence Rees has done us a great service by holding up this mirror to our faces and having us take a good look at ourselves in history. Penetrating, poignant, powerful! “Never again”, we say! Rees lets us know that it will require more than the transient flare of our enthusiasms.

Every book about the Holocaust is important.

This was no new history. Every Holocaust book deserves to be read. The narrative was not so great. Too many mispronounced words was distracting. Still the research is very good and the subject should never be forgotten. Thousands of years from now the Holocaust should still be talked and written about.

Begging for a new narrator

I can only echo other reviewers who have commented on the subpar narration. Please, Hachette, re-record this important book with someone who has some gravitas to their voice and who can pronounce German and Polish. What a disservice to this brilliant book. I’m on the verge of returning it and reading the hard copy. I don’t know if I can stand to hear “Duh-KOW” (Dachau) or “Lots” (Łódź) one more time, not to mention all the other general mangling, mispronunciations, and the narrator’s heavy American accent.

Essential

Great history. Very well done. Essential to learn about the halocaust and see the eventual conclusion of racism, whether it is against the Jews, the Muslims or Chinese

Different narrator imperative

It is imperative that a new narrator re-perform this incredible book. My suggestion is a mature British voice like Paul Hodgeson who narrates Nikolaus Wachsmann’s, KL. The subject of Rees’s book compels a deeper, more round fuller voice that is confident and experienced. Since the book deals with Europe and due to the sophistication of the subject and audience I urge a British voice, and one who will pronounce the names of persons and places correctly.

Excellent

Answered so many questions I had about the Holocaust. Gut wrenching and hard to get through at times because of the barbaric ways of the Nazis, but too important not to.