ENGLISH

Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII

By Laurence Rees

Book information

Publisher
BBC Books
Year
2007
ISBN
0091923344, 9780091923341
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12934923 bytes)
Pages
320\293
Time added
2014-04-17 08:06:17

Description

How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp?Award-winning documentary maker and historian Laurence Rees has spent nearly 20 years wrestling with these questions in the course of filming hundreds of interviews with people tested to the extreme during World War II. He has come face-to-face with rapists, mass murderers, even cannibals, but he has also met courageous individuals who are an inspiration to us all.In Their Darkest Hour he presents 35 of his most electrifying encounters.

Similar books