Auschwitz – Couldn't I Just Tell You

Review: The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz – Denis Avey with Rob Broomby

Posted on 27/09/2026 by Speesh in Auschwitz, Concentration Camps, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Poland, Second World War, The Holocaust

Exceptional and very moving

Long narrow corridor with four closed wooden prison cell doors on one side and small barred windows near the ceiling on the other side

Review: Auschwitz A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account – Miklos Nyiszli

Posted on 19/09/2026 by Speesh in History, Second World War, Non Fiction, Nazi Germany, The Holocaust, Concentration Camps, Poland

'The best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available' - The New York Review of Books

Review: The Volunteer – Jack Fairweather

Posted on 11/09/202611/09/2026 by Speesh in Concentration Camps, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Poland, Second World War, The Eastern Front, The Final Solution, The Holocaust

"Perhaps the greatest unsung hero of World War II...the definitive version of this extraordinary life" Economist

Review: Auschwitz A History – Sybille Steinbacher

Posted on 06/10/201910/01/2020 by Speesh in History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Holocaust

They knew

Review: The Draughtsman – Robert Lautner

Posted on 14/08/201821/09/2018 by Speesh in Fiction, Historical Fiction, World War II Germany

What would you do? Really? I don't think so...

Review: Hanns and Rudolf – Thomas Harding

Posted on 28/09/201519/03/2024 by Speesh in History, Non Fiction, The Second World War

A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history - John le Carré