Tag: Poland

Review: The Volunteer – Jack Fairweather

Posted on 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

German soldiers and armored vehicles pass snowy ruins; sign reads CHARKOW 3 m, BELGOROD 12 m.

Review: The Third Reich At War – Richard J. Evans

Posted on by Speesh in Adolf Eichmann, Auschwitz, Concentration Camps, Conflict, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Poland, Second World War, Soviet Union, The Eastern Front, The Final Solution, The Holocaust, Wartime Europe

Masterly ... will surely be the standard history for many years to come ... This is a warning for the future, as much as a judgement on the past' Richard Overy

Review: Hitlers Willing Executioners – Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Posted on by Speesh in Concentration Camps, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, Soviet Union, The Eastern Front, The Final Solution, The Holocaust

Astonishing, disturbing, and riveting...the fruit of phenomenal scholarship and absolute integrity - Simon Schama

Review: Masters of Death. The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust – Richard Rhodes

Posted on by Speesh in Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Holocaust

These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final Solution. They murdered more than 1.5 million men, women, and children between 1941 and 1943, often by shooting them into killing pits, as at Babi Yar.