The Nazis, Laurence Rees
The Nazis, Laurence Rees
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The Nazis
A Warning From History

Author: Laurence Rees

Narrator: Jonthan Keeble

Unabridged: 11 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: BBC Digital

Published: 07/30/2020


Synopsis

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Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.

During a 16-year period, acclaimed author and documentary-maker Laurence Rees met and interviewed a large number of former Nazis, and his unique insights into the Nazi psyche and World War 2 received enormous praise.

At the heart of the book lies compelling eyewitness accounts of life under Adolf Hitler, spoken through the words of those who experienced the Nazi regime at every level of society. An extensive new section on the Nazi/Soviet war (previously published in Rees' War of the Century) provides a chilling insight into Nazi mentality during the most bloody conflict in history.

Described as one of the greatest documentary series of all times The Nazis - A Warning from History won a host of awards, including a BAFTA and an International Documentary Award.

© Laurence Rees 1997 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

About Laurence Rees

Laurence Rees is the writer, director, and producer of the BBC TV series The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler. The former head of BBC Television History programs, he has specialized for the last twenty years in writing books and making television documentaries about the Nazis and World War II. Previous projects that were both series and books include Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution and World War II Behind Closed Doors. In 2006 Rees won the British Book Award for History Book of the Year for Auschwitz. Educated at Oxford University, he was appointed in 2009 a senior visiting fellow in the International History Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2010 he launched the multimedia website ww2history.com, which won best in class awards in the education and reference categories at the 2011 Interactive Media Awards. He lives in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on January 12, 2022

In the words of Karl Jaspers "That which has happened is a warning. To forget it is guilt. It must be continually remembered. It was possible for this to happen, and it remains possible for it to happen again at any minute. Only in knowledge can it be prevented". This is an exceptional book companio......more

Goodreads review by Erik on June 03, 2020

I have read very many books about World War II in Europe, some scholarly, some not. This, while not a scholarly study, is the most readable volume on the topic I have encountered. Originally composed to accompany a multi-part BBC documentary on the topic, it was expanded with more material on the wa......more

Goodreads review by Alastair on May 27, 2013

There was a period of my life when I studiously avoided history books about World War Two, there were so many, enough to fill a library and each year there seem to be even more books. I don’t know why I picked this book up, it was probably on sale somewhere and I seem to recall it was part of a spec......more

Goodreads review by Sajith on May 03, 2019

There are some aspects of human nature which we find it difficult to concede exist in us. At the slightest opportunity they well up from the depths and overflow, making us hugely embarrassed. In the next instant, we are ashamed of it all, and wonder at the very fact that such a thing had happened at......more

Goodreads review by Ľuboš on June 06, 2020

Prednostne ma zaujima socialno-ekonomicky rozmer Nemecka v case Hitlerovho vzostupu a naslednej krutovlady, a tato kniha je v informovani o tychto aspektoch zatial najlepsia, aku som cital. Podobne ako Americania v Hitlerlande, aj tato kniha sa opiera o zachovane uradne zaznamy, osobne denniky alebo......more


Quotes

One of the greatest documentary series of all time Daily Mail

Essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how a highly cultured, western society fell into an abyss of barbarity History magazine