The Holocaust – Couldn't I Just Tell You

Review: Hitlers Willing Executioners – Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Posted on 22/11/2024 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: Black Earth – Timothy Snyder

Posted on 20/04/202414/02/2026 by Speesh in Concentration Camps, Conflict, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Eastern Front, The Final Solution, The Holocaust

"Wholly readable and utterly persuasive" - Observor

Review: The Unwritten Order – Peter Longerich

Posted on 10/04/2024 by Speesh in History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Final Solution, The Holocaust

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

Review: Final Solution – David Cesarani

Posted on 25/12/202325/12/2023 by Speesh in Adolf Eichmann, Concentration Camps, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, Soviet Union, The Eastern Front, The First World War, The Holocaust

The final word

Review: Eichmann. His Life And Crimes – David Cesarani

Posted on 13/12/2023 by Speesh in Adolf Eichmann, Concentration Camps, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Eastern Front, The Final Solution, The Holocaust

"A penetrating and compelling study" - Sunday Telegraph

Review: Eichmann Before Jerusalem – Bettina Stangenth

Posted on 19/11/202219/11/2022 by Speesh in Adolf Eichmann, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Holocaust

"Cynicism, inhumanity and moral self-deception"

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 Nazi Hunters – Andrew Nagorski

Posted on 03/07/201917/11/2024 by Speesh in History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Second World War, The Holocaust

It wasn't all just Simon Wiesenthal

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

Posted on 28/06/201827/08/2018 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.