"During World War II, Marione and her family miraculously escape the firestorms of Hamburg and seek shelter with a contact in the countryside who grudgingly agrees to house them in a shed for more than a year. "--Provided by publisher.

"Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany's mass murder of Europe's Jews. . . . An account of unparalleled vividness and power that reads like a novel. . . . A masterpiece that will endure." - New York Times Book Review The Years of Extermination, the completion of Saul Friedländer's major historical opus on Nazi Germany and the Jews, explores the convergence of the various aspects of the Holocaust, the most systematic...

Explores the issues of discrimination and tolerance through the poignant story of Anne and her tragic death at the hands of Nazis.

A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and insightful as those of maverick German historian Götz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust from the 1800s to the Nazis' assumption of power in 1933, Aly shows that German anti-Semitism...