Description
About the Author
Catherine Epstein teaches modern European history at Amherst College. She is the author of The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century (2003) and A Past Renewed: German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States After 1933 (1993), and she also serves as Associate Editor of the journal Central European History.
Reviews
[an] authoritatively sourced and minutely examined study * John P. Fox, Slavonic and East European Review *
Excellent...Epstein's book is a most welcome addition to the vast literature on the Third Reich and an important contribution to the debate on the origins, manifestations and consequences of racially motivated mass murder. * Robert Gerwarth, Irish Times *
[A] finely crafted and superbly researched biography * Christopher Browning, Central European History *
A valuable new biography * Timothy Snyder, New York Review of Books *
Epstein's biography of Greiser is careful and rigorous. Her assessment of him is frank and sober, eschewing the dangers of either over-identification or demonization. * L.N. Faulkner, Holocaust and Genocide Studies *
Epstein provides a refreshingly sober and balanced account of Greiser's life ... a most welcome addition to the vast literature on the Third Reich and an important contribution to the debate on the origins, manifestations and consequences of racially motivated mass murder. * Robert Gerwarth, English Historical Review *
Epstein has done a remarkable job excavating Greiser's life ... a wide-ranging, vivid and readable history of occupation policies in western Poland that engages deftly with continuing debates on Greiser's role at key junctures * Elizabeth Harvey, Journal of Contemporary History *
Awards
Winner of Winner of the Arthur-Kronthal Prize 2012 Commendation - The Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History for 2010.
Book Information
ISBN 9780199546411
Author Catherine Epstein
Format Hardback
Page Count 468
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 242mm * 161mm * 31mm