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Laddar... The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War (1985)av Martin Gilbert
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I read every word of this exquisitely painful book, a testament without parallel. What a work of history, of documentation, of witness. To present this overwhelming human tragedy, in such detail--I do not really have words to describe how it has affected me, nor how grateful I am for it. Please, everyone, read it. ( ) This is not a book you will enjoy reading, but its a must-read nevertheless. This is a relentless pounding with figures, page after page of number, each number representing a human life lost in the worst crime of the 20th century if not all history. Individual names appear and then disappear, the fate of every Jew from even the most obscure villages all over Europe recounted in calm emotionleess tones. This is not a book screaming with anger or seeking revenge, it is a book for proving, with slow relentless logic, that this unspeakable crime actually happened. As I said this is not a book you will enjoy, it will make you squirm, it will make you weep, it will make you boil with rage, but you will remember. That's its purpose and it achieves it admirably This is a tour-de-force of history. Martin Gilbert had an ambitious project -- cover the whole Holocaust from the pre-Hitler days to after the war, all over Europe -- but he was able to accomplish his ends without either glossing over anything or making it too long. I was dizzied by the number of sources he quoted. The guy really knows how to write, too, and put his sources together into one coherent narrative. Two caveats: Gilbert transliterates proper names strangely. For example, Tuvia Bielsky is called "Tobias Belsky." Also, the book was written over 25 years ago and is a little dated as a result; a lot of research has been done since then. I wish he'd put out a second edition. In the meantime, Martin Gilbert is my new superhero.
This book must be read and reread. It will be painful to you, but you must read it anyway. To know? No. To understand? No, not that either. But simply to remember all those whom the world, once upon a time, tried to forget. It is [the victims'] testimonies, culled from archives in many countries, from personal interviews and from an enormous literature in several languages, that give this book its immediacy and overwhelming impact....It is Mr. Gilbert's impressive achievement to remind us of ordinary human beings living and suffering behind the mass anonymity of statistics... An impressive achievement of reconstructing the details of the darkest, as well as the most elusive event in modern Jewish history. He weaves the cold facts with the nightmarish oral histories into a masterly chronological narrative....The Holocaust confronts us with the most clear-cut yet unanswerable questions about our humanity, our values and our capacity for suffering...by implication we learn how it could happen again. Will doubtless stand as a classic history....Indispensable for the material it contains, for the soundness of its scholarship, and for Gilbert's ability to narrate and present this history in a style that bears the weight of the subject matter. Uppmärksammade listor
Hänvisningar till detta verk hos externa resurser. Wikipedia på engelska (23)Sets the scene with a brief history of anti-Semitism prior to Hitler, and documents the horrors of the Holocaust from 1933 onward, in an incisive, interpretive account of the genocide of World War II. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.531503924History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War II Social, political, economic history; HolocaustKlassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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