Auschwitz: A History in Ten Days
From the prizewinning author of KL
Will be published approx. on 28. January 2027
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-1-4087-1094-4 (ISBN)
Description
Auschwitz is the most notorious place of mass murder in the 20th century. But there is still more to understand about how this death camp functioned. Following on from his award-winning KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps, Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann tells the story of Auschwitz through ten significant days - from its initial construction by the Nazis in 1940 to its liberation by the Allies in 1945.
Meticulously researched yet written with clinical clarity, Ten Days in Auschwitz takes a granular look at life in the camp for everyone there: Jewish prisoners as well as Nazi murderers. Pulling together official documents, contemporary studies and the testimony of survivors, this new work allows us to see without flinching the German genocidal machine at work.
Praise for KL:
"Monumentally impressive," Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
"Gripping, humane, and beautifully written," New York Review of Books
"Every page is suffused with humanity and anyone who wants to understand the Nazis should read it," Jewish Chronicle
Meticulously researched yet written with clinical clarity, Ten Days in Auschwitz takes a granular look at life in the camp for everyone there: Jewish prisoners as well as Nazi murderers. Pulling together official documents, contemporary studies and the testimony of survivors, this new work allows us to see without flinching the German genocidal machine at work.
Praise for KL:
"Monumentally impressive," Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
"Gripping, humane, and beautifully written," New York Review of Books
"Every page is suffused with humanity and anyone who wants to understand the Nazis should read it," Jewish Chronicle
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Product notice
Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
41 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4087-1094-4 (9781408710944)
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Schweitzer Classification
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E-Book
approx. 01/2027
The Bridge Street Press
€16.99
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Person
Nikolaus Wachsmann was born in Munich, Germany. He obtained a PhD in History from Birbeck College at the University of London and was a joint winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. He is Professor of Modern European History, School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck. KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps won the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize and the Wolfson History Prize