Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII

Laurence Rees

ISBN 10: 0091917573 / ISBN 13: 9780091917579

Verlag: Ebury Press, 2007

Beschreibung

New Book complete with DJ. These true stories are superb - gripping and often chilling. pictorial DJ. There are several black and white plates in the centre of the book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006930

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the ...

Verlag: Ebury Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 2007

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: New Book

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New Book

Auflage: 1st Edition

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Inhaltsangabe:

Award-winning writer and filmmaker Laurence Rees has spent nearly 20 years meeting people who were 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. His quest has taken him from the Baltic States to Japan, from Poland to America, and from Germany to China. Here he presents 35 of his most electrifying encounters.Meet Estera Frenkiel, a young Jewish woman given the chance to save ten fellow Jews from deportation and death; Peter Lee, a British officer brutally treated by his Japanese captors; Zinaida Pytkina, a female member of the Soviet Union's infamous SMERSH organisation, who took pleasure in killing a German Prisoner; Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier so fanatical that he refused to surrender until 29 years after the end of the war; and Petras Zelionka, a Lithuanian who shot Jewish men, women and children for the Nazis. The devastating first-hand testimony in "Their Darkest Hour" is both a lasting contribution to our understanding of the war and a powerful insight into the behaviour of human beings in crisis.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Laurence Rees has won the British Book Award for History Book of the Year 2006 for his international bestseller Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'. His career as a writer and filmmaker, focusing on the Nazis and World War II, stretches back nearly 20 years and includes the acclaimed television series Nazis: A Warning from History, War of the Century, Horror in the East and, most recently, 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 Solihull School and Oxford University and is Creative Director of BBC TV History programmes.