The Holocaust – 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 Concentration Camps, History, Nazi Germany, Non Fiction, Poland, Second World War, The Holocaust

'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: Testament – Kim Sherwood

Posted on 31/08/2026 by Speesh in Fiction, Historical Fiction, The Second World War, World War II, World War II Germany

Great book

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"