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The Holocaust
- An Unfinished History
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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The Holocaust
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
The defining event of 20th century Europe - the extermination of millions of Jews - has been commemorated, institutionalised and embedded in our collective consciousness. But in this nuanced and perceptive new history, Dan Stone, professor of modern history and director of the Holocaust Research Institute, contends that the true dimension of the horror wrought by the Nazis is inadvertently brushed aside in our current culture of commemoration.
This is due in part to practical or conceptual challenges, such as the continent-wide scale of the crime and the multiplicity of sources in many languages; and in part, to an unwillingness to confront the reality that the Holocaust could not have happened without the assistance of numerous non-Nazi states and agents.
Structured around four themes - trauma, collaboration, genocidal fantasy and post-war consequences - The Holocaust demonstrates the genocidal logic of much European thinking in the wake of WWI, explores how the Holocaust's effects unfolded even after the liberation of the camps in 1945 and stresses the ways in which Europeans continue, even now, to draw on a reservoir of fascist vocabulary and imagery in times of crisis.
It is a deeply researched and indispensable examination of a trauma that still reverberates today.
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- PaulC6230
- 26-01-23
Expertly Written
What an audiobook. It’s so expertly written and narrated I listened too in one go with a couple of breaks. Glad to add this to my Holocaust collection. Worth the wait ( I pre ordered last year ).
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- BackGardenMan
- 08-02-23
Latest Holocaust research
Excellent book by a well respected historian and expert in the field of Holocaust studies. Really well read, engaging, good pace to the narrative. The last chapter in particular raises some important challenges for Holocaust education.
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- mrsmiawallace
- 30-01-23
Can’t get past the narrator
This is a wonderfully written book. However as an audiobook - it is dire. The narrators dismal pronunciation (hollycost) in the dullest of tones will sadly cause many to overlook the crucially uncomfortable questions this book seeks its readers to pose upon themselves. This is a vital piece of work but the delivery is detrimental to its message. Read, don’t listen.
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- Lambkin Warmneck
- 18-03-23
Fantastic book, terrible audio
This is an important book, which ties together modern attitudes to the holocaust in Germany and Eastern Europe as well as the former Allies. Uncomfortable reading. But unfortunately the narrator’s execrable German pronunciation (“Liebensraum” for “Lebensraum“) is really distracting. So I would recommend reading rather than listening.
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- Colette O'Sullivan
- 16-03-23
Really informative
I learned so much from this audiobook - this horrifying story needs to be told again and again.