The second and concluding volume of the definitive two-volume account of the Holocaust

With THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION, Friedlander completes his work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book describes and interprets the history of the persecution and murder of the Jews throughout occupied Europe.
The implementation of German extermination policies and measures depended on the submissiveness of political authorities, the assistance of local police forces and the passivity or co-operation of the populations, primarily of their political and spiritual elites. The implementation also depended on the readiness of the victimes to submit to orders, often with the hope of modifying them or surviving long enough to escape the German vice.

This multifaceted representation - at all levels and in all different places - enhances the perception of the magnitude, complexity and interrelatedness of the multiple components of this history. Based on a vast variety of documents and an overwhelming choir of voices, Friedlander manages to avoid domesticating the memory of unparalleled and horrific events. The convergence of these various aspects gives THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION its unique aulity. In this work the history of the Holocaust has found its definitive representation.

The second and concluding volume of the definitive two-volume account of the Holocaust

About the Author
Saul Friedlander was born in Prague in 1932. He fled to France where he survived the war in hiding. He arrived in Israel in 1948 and took part in the Israeli War of Independence. Since 1987 he was been Professor of Holocaust Studies at UCLA. In 2008 he was awarded the general non-fiction Pulitzer prize for his book THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945. He lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews
Read together with his earlier volume, The Years of Persecution: 193-1939, Saul Friedlander has produced the new standard work on the Holocaust -- Dan Jones * DAILY TELEGRAPH *


Awards
Winner of Pulitzer Prize General Non-Fiction Category 2008.



Book Information
ISBN 9780753824450
Author Prof Saul Friedlander
Format Paperback
Page Count 896
Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Weight(grams) 822g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 175mm * 60mm