Auschwitz

“Thank God that occasionally books of the stature of Laurence Rees’s superb Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution are published… Fascinating.” – Andrew Roberts Evening Standard “Excellent” – Boyd Tonkin The Independent “A key to understanding man’s inhumanity to man” – Ian Thomson The Guardian “Well-written with striking testimonies from bystanders, perpetrators and victims. The interviews with SS men, and sundry European Fascists, are genuinely revealing, and must have been exceptionally difficult to negotiate” – Michael Burleigh Daily Telegraph “Devastating. Rees’s research is impeccable and intrepid. Ultimately he does at the gut level what Hannah Arendt achieved some 40 years ago at the level of philosophy: he forces the reader to shift the Holocaust out of the realm of nightmare or Gothic horror and acknowledge it as something all too human. Scrupulous and honest, this book is utterly without illusions” – David Von Drehle Washington Post, USA

Laurence Rees is the critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of a large canon of books, including Auschwitz- The Nazis and the ‘Final Solution’. His longstanding career as a writer and filmmaker, focusing on the Nazis and World War II, includes the acclaimed television series Nazis- A Warning from History, War of the Century, Horror in the East and Auschwitz- The Nazis and the ‘Final Solution’. The body of work has won him a myriad of awards including a BAFTA, a Grierson Award and an international Documentary Award. He was educated at Oxford University and held the post of Creative Director of BBC TV History programmes.