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By (author) Stone, Dan
”This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi genocide . . . . surprising . . . provocative . . . fizzes with ideas. Even if you think you know the subject, you”ll probably find something here to make you think” Sunday Times
”Erudite…remarkable” The Observer
”Outstanding” The Telegraph
An authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust, from one of the leading scholars of his generation
The Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialized and much-portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked.
Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust and across the world, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone reveals how the idea of ”industrial murder” is incomplete: many were killed where they lived in the most brutal of ways. He outlines the depth of collaboration across Europe, arguing persuasively that we need to stop thinking of the Holocaust as an exclusively German project. He also considers the nature of trauma the Holocaust engendered, and why Jewish suffering has yet to be fully reckoned with. And he makes clear that the kernel to understanding Nazi thinking and action is genocidal ideology, providing a deep analysis of its origins.
Drawing on decades of research, The Holocaust: An Unfinished History upends much of what we think we know about the Holocaust. Stone draws on Nazi documents, but also on diaries, post-war testimonies and even fiction, urging that, in our age of increasing nationalism and xenophobia, we must understand the true history of the Holocaust.
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This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi”s genocide . . . Drawing on the latest scholarship in English and German,
Stone”s brisk, energetic book fizzes with ideas. Indeed, even if you think you know the subject, you”ll probably find something here to make you think . . .
surprising . . . provocative . . . an excellent book
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Relays many carefully chosen and deeply haunting stories…
an engaging and accessible read that never hurries or shields the reader from its dark subject matter…
outstanding
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A timely corrective to a shifting narrative …erudite … this
remarkable book offers both a narrative overview and an analysis of the events, challenging many common assumptions and often returning to how this terrible history remains “unfinished”…
a brisk, compelling and scholarly account of the Nazi genocide and its aftermath. But never for one moment does it let us believe that the events are now safely in the past
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Deep insights into horror… drawing on his extensive own research and a vast range of work by historians from across the last eight decades,
Stone sets about showing how our mental picture of the Holocaust is dangerously wrong…. his own passion for his subject and its importance is
compelling, as is his willingness to confront both moral and historical questions… the breadth of Stone”s work across borders and languages shines through…
a vital and provocative book
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A holocaust history for our times, passionate as well as scholarly, and written with a sharp eye to the growing threat of the radical right in the present. Stone is not afraid to question the verities that have become attached to this most catastrophic epoch of modern history, and he
challenges readers to confront its scope and enormity anew
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A brilliant study, lucid, powerful, moving, and full of original insights. Few general studies of the Holocaust have so successfully integrated the international, indeed global, dimensions of the Nazi genocide and its aft
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