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Title: The Kingdom of Auschwitz : 1940-1945 by Otto Friedrich ISBN: 0-06-097640-3 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 28 September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Nice and Easy
Comment: This is a good little book about Auschwitz. It is extremely thin and easy to read (128 pages). If you just want to know a little bit about Auschwitz and are not inclined to read one of the heavy books on the subject then this may be a good alternative. I found it easy to read and did not lack any of the intensity found in the bigger volumes on the subject. It is very detailed. It is also a great book to introduce yourself on the operations of the death camps. This book may spark your interest and you may want to read further on the subject. I finished it in only a few hours. Nice and easy reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Intensely Readable Synthesis of the Best Historical Accounts
Comment: "The Kingdom of Auschwitz" is an extract from Otto Friedrich's larger, sadly out-of-print "The End of the World: A History." In that book Friedrich examined several earth-shaking events in world history including the Black Death in Europe, the 1905 Russian revolution, and the fall of Rome. The book's climax is this long essay on Auschwitz (with an epilogue speculating on the effects of possible nuclear war circa 1982.)
Friedrich was a very talented journalist with a rich appreciation of history and a hypnotically readable prose style. Here he synthesizes the best available literature about the death camp to produce what is probably the best short history of that black hole at the heart of Western civilization. This is a good place to start if you are just beginning to read about the Holocaust. Expert readers will have their sense of the horror of the place renewed. Friedrich writes that Auschwitz does not disprove God: "Two men arguing about the existence of God is like two worker ants debating the existence of Mozart." A small masterpiece.
Rating: 4
Summary: an accurate perspective of Nazi Germany
Comment: a quick read for students, an objective attempt to chronologically illustrate the rise and decline of the Auschwitz extermination camp under Nazi German rule in which innocent victims, both Jew and Gentile were maliciously slaughtered.
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Title: Luther and His World (Ivp Histories) by Graham Tomlin ISBN: 0830823514 Publisher: InterVarsity Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Spoke in the Wheel by Renate Wind, John Bowden ISBN: 0802806325 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Auschwitz, 1940-1945 by Kazimierz Smolen ISBN: 0964429314 Publisher: Route Sixty Six Publishing, Limited Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning ISBN: 0060995068 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 17 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Night by Elie Wiesel, Stella Rodway, Francois Mauriac ISBN: 0553272535 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1982 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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