Witnesses Of War

“Magnificent …His concluding chapter contains some of the best historical writing about the aftermath of the war I have ever read…Stunning” – David Cesarani Guardian “Unbearably sad though it is, Witnesses of War is utterly compelling. This is clearly a work of expiation…as well as being one of profound historical substance, probably the most genuinely challenging book on the Nazis in a long while” – Allan Mallinson The Times “Harrowing…The 21st century promises to be as full of wars as the 20th, which is why we need books like Stargardt’s that remind us and our leaders what war really means” – John Carey Sunday Times “Superb…Stargardt makes extensive use of letters, diaries and drawings to tell gripping individual stories… A tremendous achievement, guaranteed to stimulate, move and enrich anyone that opens its pages” – Matthew J. Reisz Independent on Sunday “Nicholas Stargardt’s harrowing account of the lives of children - both Jewish and non-Jewish - in Nazi Germany and its occupied territories is an essential document. The author builds a detailed picture of juvenile life under the Third Reich… Throughout this powerful book, Stargardt conveys the horrors of Nazism and the dangers of blind adherence to ideology… In this vitally important work, Stargardt turns an appalled eye on the destruction of innocence in wartime” – Ian Thomson Daily Telegraph

Nicholas Stargardt, the son of a German-Jewish father and Australian mother, was born in Melbourne and brought up in Australia, Japan and Britain. He teaches modern European history at Magdalen College, Oxford.

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