 | The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg
Buy new: £9.77 / Used from: £8.03 This is the abridged edition of the standard book on the subject. Painstakingly researched, lucidly and soberly written.
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 | If This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.77 Memoir by the greatest writer to have been a survivor of the camps. He wrote extraordinary books on a variety of other subjects but this is the one to read first.
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 | Commandant of Auschwitz (Age of Dictators 1920-1945) by Rudolf Hoess
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.85 Autobiography of the most influential commandant of the most important of the camps. Not totally trustworthy on the facts, but fascinating about the writer's mentality.
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 | The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939 by Richard J Evans
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £17.39 Along with the same author's 'Coming of the Third Reich', the most scrupulous history so far of how Nazi Germany happened and what it was like to live there. Part 2 of a projected three-part series.
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 | Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps by Yitzhak Arad
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £9.50 The extermination program as it operated in the three most infamous death camps. Excellently researched and written.
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 | Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £8.00 Superb first of a two-volume historical biography. More detailed than Alan Bullock's, less speculative than Joachim Fest's.
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 | Telling Lies About Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial by Richard Evans
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £3.10 Fascinating and sometimes blackly comic account of the Irving-Lipstadt libel trial. A slap in the face to deniers everywhere.
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 | Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Hannah Arendt
Buy used from: £5.35 Brave account of the 1961 trial of one of the architects of the extermination policy. Properly unsettling in its implications; a warning to history, all right.
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