Kristallnacht : Prelude to Destruction

ISBN-13: 9780007196043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str.

Martin Gilbert

Opis

One of our most eminent historians presents a powerful look at the buildup to and aftermath of one of the most decisive moments of World War II -- Kristallnacht -- not only for the Jewish population suddenly identified as a group to be destroyed, but also in terms of the international response it inspired and its larger implications.

Recenzje

Praise for 'Kristallnacht':

'An incisive, heartbreaking account.' The Times

'Horribly vivid...a book that makes the horror strikingly fresh.' Observer

'Gilbert's meticulous documenting of the slope from discrimination to Kristallnacht to the Holocaust.' Financial Times

Praise for 'Empires of Conflict':

'Martin Gilbert is the most prodigious author of our time...He is a phenomenon who arouses envy among less productive professional historians...He has a fine eye for a telling passage and a memorable detail.' John Ramsden, Financial Times

O autorze

Martin Gilbert was born in London in 1936 and educated at Highgate School and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1962, he became research assistant to Randolph Churchill and, after Randolph's death, succeeded him as biographer of Sir Winston Churchill. He is the author of many works of history and lives in London and Jerusalem.

Lisa Jardine is Director of th Research Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, and Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London; she is an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Amanda Foreman was born in London in 1968. She is the daughter of the late Hollywood film maker Carl Foreman (High Noon, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Guns of Navarone).

Her early years were spent shuttling between home in Los Angeles and school in Dorset. Her first book, 'Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire' won the 1998 Whitbread Biography of the year Award.

A self-confessed Trekkie, when not at work she is either cooking, surfing the net, or catching up on the latest sci-fi.