Product Description

In this controversial book the author challenges the convention that the allies did little or nothing to rescue Europes Jews. The author responds to the controversy caused by his views in a new introduction to this edition.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #607328 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
Rubinstein's work is a tour de force of historical criticism, iconoclastic,subject to qualification here and there, but compelling an overall reassessment of the rescue issue, and perhaps a paradigmatic shift in our understanding of the Holocaust. - The Historian

William D. Rubinstein has established incontrovertibly the terrible inevitability of the Holocaust... Nothing in any archive can dispel the reality that there were armed Nazis at every port and frontier, who took pleasure in exterminating Jews of any age. - Daily Telegraph

The Myth of rescue will not suprise those old enough to remember the second World War: winning the war was the only way of stopping Hitler and the Final Solution.....The lessons of the Holocaust nust be built on truth; The Myth of Rescue is an antidote to moral fantasy. - The Observer

a powerful brief - First Things

Synopsis
It has long been claimed that the Allies did little or nothing to rescue Europe's Jews. Did they deny refuge to those fleeing Hitler's death machine? Why did they fail to bomb Auschwitz and the other concentration camps in order to liberate them? Arguing that the rescue of the Jewish people has been consistently misinterpreted, this book states that few Jews who perished could have been saved by any action of the Allies. In his new introduction to the paperback edition, William Rubinstein responds to the controversy caused by his challenging views, and considers further the question of bombing Auschwitz, which remains perhaps the most widely-discussed alleged lost opportunity for saving Jews available to the Allies.

From the Back Cover
William D. Rubinstein has established incontrovertibly the terrible inevitability of the Holocaust. ... Nothing in any archive can dispel the reality that there were armed Nazis at every port and frontier, who took pleasure in exterminating Jews of any age. Daily Telegraph
The Myth of Rescue will not surprise those old enough to remember the Second World War: winning the war was the only way of stopping Hitler and the Final Solution. ... The lessons of the Holocaust must be built on truth; The Myth of Rescue is an antidote to moral fantasy. The Observer
a powerful brief First Things
It has long been claimed that the Allies did little or nothing to rescue Europes Jews. Arguing that this has been consistently misinterpreted, The Myth of Rescue states that few Jews who perished could have been saved by any action of the Allies. In his new introduction to the paperback edition, William Rubinstein responds to the controversy caused by his challenging views, and considers further the question of bom