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REES**, LAURENCE: : AUSCHWITZ: THE NAZIS AND 'THE FINAL SOLUTION'. [Author SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.BBC BOOKS,2005.

ISBN 0563521171.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,reprint edn. [Published to accompany Auschwitz first broadcast BBC,2005,and as a runaway bestseller,reprinted 4 times in the same year,2005.]FINE/FINE.As new.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj, author's handwritten,black ink signature to half-title page.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,colour-enhanced photographic upper wrap,b/w vignette photograph with critics' reviews to rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear to edges - no nicks or tears present and no creasing or bumping. Waterstone's (UK bookshop/store) Author Signed sticker to top wrap.Top+fore-edges crisp,bright and clean; contents bright, tight and pristine.Bright,unblemished, publisher's original black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip with immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,SIGNED,reprint,6-320pp[paginated] includes author SIGNED half-title,title page,contents list,author introduction,6 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w+colour photographs between pp128-9 (b/w+colour) and pp192/3(all b/w) respectively,notes, acknowlwdgements,an index,picture credits and 4pp blanks to rear. In this compelling new book,published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz,highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all.We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder in history - part death camp, part concentration camp,where around a million Jews were killed.Rees uses Auschwitz as a window through which to examine the Holocaust in its broader context.He argues that,far from being an aberration,the camp was a uniquely important institution in the Nazi state, one that played a vital role in the 'Final Solution'.Auschwitz examines the mentality and motivations of the key Nazi decision makers,and perpetrators of appalling crimes speak here for the first time about their actions.Fascinating and disturbing facts have been uncovered - from the operation of a brothel to the corruption that was rife throughout the camp.The book draws on intriguing new documentary material from recently opened Russian archives,which will challenge many previously accepted arguments.Auschwitz lay at the hub of a complex system of extermination that spread throughout Nazi Europe. Rees addresses uncomfortable questions, such as why so few countries under Nazi occupation protected their Jews and why the Allies did little directly to prevent the killing even after they knew about the existence of the camp.This is a story of murder,brutality,courage,escape and survival,and a powerful account of how a human tragedy of such immense scale could have happened. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,reprint edn.
Author SIGNED - without dedication.

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