Laurence Rees, Author . Public Affairs $30 (327p) ISBN 978-1-58648-303-6
This pathbreaking work reveals the "destructive dynamism" of the Nazis' most notorious death camp. Rees, creative director of history programs for the BBC, consistently offers new insights, drawn from more than 100 interviews with...
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Laurence Rees, Author, Ian Kershaw, Foreword by New Press $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-56584-445-2
Rees, head of the BBC's history programming division, has drawn on newly available archival material and about 50 interviews he conducted with ""eyewitnesses"" to present a chilling crash course on the Nazis' chaotic rule. According to the author,...
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Laurence Rees, Author, Ian Kershaw, Foreword by New Press $27.95 (255p) ISBN 978-1-56584-599-2
The Russo-German War of 1941-1945 was a one-of-a-kind death struggle between two ruthless dictatorships, as well as an ideological conflict that gave neither combatant any room for compromise, argues documentarian Rees. The text and often powerful...
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Laurence Rees, Author, Akira Iriye, Foreword by . Da Capo $24 (184p) ISBN 978-0-306-81178-4
Based on a film documentary Rees (The Nazis: A Warning from History) produced for the BBC, this chronologically organized book does a nice job of explaining the cultural attitudes and historical events that lay behind Japanese atrocities during...
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Laurence Rees. PublicAffairs, $35 (528p) ISBN 978-1-61039-964-7
Historian Rees (The Holocaust) draws on eyewitness testimony to identify “key differences” between Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler in this informative yet somewhat skewed account. Stodgy bureaucrat Stalin was deeply committed to the Communist Party,...
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