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Their Darkest Hour :People Tested to the Extreme in WWII
Their Darkest Hour :People Tested to the Extreme in WWII
paperback
Published:
5 June, 2008
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Description
How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi death camp?
Award-winning documentary maker and historian Laurence Rees has spent decades wrestling with such questions in the course of filming hundreds of interviews with people tested to the extreme during World War II. He has come face-to-face with rapists, mass murderers, even cannibals, but he has also met courageous individuals who are an inspiration to us all.
In Their Darkest Hour he presents 35 of his most electrifying encounters.
'A remarkably powerful collection' Antony Beevor, Daily Telegraph
'An incredible, well-written, must-read book' Glasgow Evening Times
'A lasting contribution to our understanding of the Second World War and a powerful insight into the behaviour of human beings in crisis' Independent
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780091917593 |
| ISBN10 | 009191759X |
| Number Of Pages | 320 |
| Item Weight | 230 g |
| Product Dimensions | 126 x 198 x 20 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Ebury Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
A remarkably powerful collection * Daily Telegraph *
Powerful and unsettling * Sunday Times *
A lasting contribution to our understanding of the Second World War and a powerful insight into the behaviour of human beings in crisis * Independent *
Fascinating but disturbing * Daily Mail *
Chilling collection of eye-witness testimonies ... bringing nuance to our understanding of the horrific experience of war * Financial Times *
Enthralling and often chilling * Wales on Sunday *
An incredible, well-written, must-read book * Glasgow Evening Times *
Laurence Rees has done more for good history on television in this country than anyone else. Over several series, he has examined the most terrible aspects of the Second World War with a passionate longing to understand, while rejecting facile moral judgment ...Their Darkest Hour comes from a selection of his interviews with both perpetrators and victims ...The cumulative effects of Rees's observations, to say nothing of the stories themselves, become deeply disturbing * Daily Telegraph *
Rees has made an important contribution to our understanding of the Second World War. His great urge to comprehend the mentalities of those who took part in the conflict is fired by a passionate curiosity, and his wide body of work is distinguished by a fierce intellectual honesty
Rees is one of the few people - perhaps the only one - who has met and interviewed at length not only hundreds of people who suffered from the barbarities of World War Two right across the globe but also, crucially, many of the perpetrators ... All this has given Rees a comparative, cross-cultural perspective on the horrors of the war that no academic could match
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Author's Bio
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.