Laurence Rees: 8 books

Book cover of Het charisma van Adolf Hitler
by Laurence Rees
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 15, 2012

Het is misschien wel Adolf Hitler die, meer dan wie dan ook, de geschiedenis het meest ingrijpend heeft bepaald. Zijn enorme macht over het Duitse volk gebruikte hij om het land in een oorlog te storten, een genocide te ontketenen en toch gehuldigd te worden als ware hij een god. De veelgeprezen historicus...
Book cover of The Holocaust

The Holocaust

A New History

by Laurence Rees
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017

n June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an SS doctor, Freda's life was spared and her mother was sent to the gas chambers. Freda only survived because the Allies won the war--the Nazis ultimately...
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Auschwitz

A New History

by Laurence Rees
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2005

This vivid and harrowing narrative history of the most notorious concentration camp of the Holocaust preserves the authentic voices of survivors and perpetrators The largest mass murder in human history took place in World War II at Auschwitz. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz,...
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World War II Behind Closed Doors

Stalin, the Nazis, and the West

by Laurence Rees
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009

In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted some of the most crucial decisions made during the conflict. Drawing on material available only since the opening of archives in Eastern Europe...
Book cover of Hitler's Charisma

Hitler's Charisma

Leading Millions into the Abyss

by Laurence Rees
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013

Fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwilling to listen to dissenting voices, Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader, and yet he commanded enormous support and was able to exert a powerful influence over those who encountered him. How did Hitler become such an attractive...
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Auschwitz

Geschichte eines Verbrechens

by Laurence Rees
Language: German
Release Date: August 12, 2011

In dieser ebenso fundierten wie erschütternden Darstellung gelingt es Laurence Rees, dem Leser die unfaßbaren Geschehnisse des Holocaust nachvollziehbar vor Augen zu führen – mit einem beunruhigenden Fazit: Der Holocaust ist kein düsterer Alptraum, kein singulärer Exzeß, sondern Ergebnis der menschlichen Veranlagung.
Book cover of Auschwitz
by Laurence Rees
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 23, 2011

Op 27 januari 1945 werd Auschwitz, een van de beruchtste concentratiekampen uit de nazi-tijd, door het Rode Leger bevrijd. In dit aangrijpende en veelomvattende boek vertelt journalist en programmamaker Laurence Rees hoe deze oorspronkelijk Poolse kazerne uit kon groeien tot een van de grootste vernietigingskampen...
Book cover of Horror In The East

Horror In The East

Japan And The Atrocities Of World War 2

by Laurence Rees
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009

The question is as searing as it is fundamental to the continuing debate over Japanese culpability in World War II and the period leading up to it: "How could Japanese soldiers have committed such acts of violence against Allied prisoners of war and Chinese civilians?" During the First World...
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