A democracy at war
William L. O'Neill
Surveys the bureaucratic mistakes--including poor weapons and strategic blunders--that marked America's entry into World War II, showing how these errors were overcome by the citizens waging the war.
Read Time: ~10.2 hr
The war against the Jews, 1933-1945
by Lucy S. Dawidowicz (1976)
About this book
The systematic annihilation of six million Jews during World War II is the single most horrifying event of the twentieth century. Though much has been written on this subject of overwhelming terror and tragedy, the basic question persists: how could a modern state carry out the systematic murder of a whole people for no other reason than that they were Jews? In The War Against the Jews 1933-1945, Lucy Dawidowicz answers this question in a vivid historical narrative, avoiding the moral and metaphysical abstractions that have bedeviled and obscured the subject. - Jacket flap.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraWWII Era
Protagonist / CoreThe war against the Jews, 1933-1945 Lead Character
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