Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author or editor of numerous academic articles and books, including Histories of the Holocaust and The Liberation of the Camps.
This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi's genocide .
. . Drawing on the latest scholarship in English and German,
Stone's brisk, energetic book fizzes with ideas. Indeed, even if
you think you know the subject, you'll probably find something here
to make you think . . . surprising . . . provocative . . . an
excellent book
*Sunday Times*
Relays many carefully chosen and deeply haunting stories... an
engaging and accessible read that never hurries or shields the
reader from its dark subject matter... outstanding
*Telegraph*
A timely corrective to a shifting narrative ... erudite ... this
remarkable book offers both a narrative overview and an analysis of
the events, challenging many common assumptions and often returning
to how this terrible history remains "unfinished"... a brisk,
compelling and scholarly account of the Nazi genocide and its
aftermath. But never for one moment does it let us believe that the
events are now safely in the past
*Observer*
Deep insights into horror... drawing on his extensive own research
and a vast range of work by historians from across the last eight
decades, Stone sets about showing how our mental picture of the
Holocaust is dangerously wrong.... his own passion for his subject
and its importance is compelling, as is his willingness to confront
both moral and historical questions... the breadth of Stone's work
across borders and languages shines through... a vital and
provocative book
*The Irish Times*
A holocaust history for our times, passionate as well as scholarly,
and written with a sharp eye to the growing threat of the radical
right in the present. Stone is not afraid to question the verities
that have become attached to this most catastrophic epoch of modern
history, and he challenges readers to confront its scope and
enormity anew
*Jane Caplan, Emeritus Professor of European History, University of
Oxford*
A brilliant study, lucid, powerful, moving, and full of original
insights. Few general studies of the Holocaust have so successfully
integrated the international, indeed global, dimensions of the Nazi
genocide and its aftermath
*Mark Roseman*
A candid, historically rooted, and timely account of the Holocaust
and its many consequences . . . troubling and thought-provoking for
a world in which post-war certainties are now dissolving. It
deserves the widest possible readership
*Richard Overy*
A stunning, original, concise analysis, culling the latest research
and the most observant eyewitness accounts of the time. The
parallels to fascism today are extremely unsettling. Stone analyzes
the latest research on the thousands of persecution sites that
turned Europe into a continent of camps; he explains the mystical
power of Nazi racial antisemitism and he grants the aftermath
history of displacement, trauma and reckonings the fuller treatment
it merits. Few scholars could write this masterful synthesis and
even fewer would take on a closer examination of its darkest
features and unsettling questions about the broader significance of
Holocaust education today
*Wendy Lower*
Illuminating ... Dan Stone demonstrates the important role played
by locals ... He writes with authority and an eye for the human
story not always evident in Holocaust historiography
*Economist*
One of the best new publications presenting more complicated
narratives of the Holocaust ... Dan Stone's The Holocaust: An
Unfinished History, is an outstanding survey that updates the
history of the European genocide of the Jews in a thought-provoking
and informative way ... powerful
*Times Literary Supplement*
Significant… A painfully revealing, vital history
*Kirkus Reviews*
Thought-provoking, a present-day reckoning ... an important and
challenging work
*Jewish Chronicle*
The Holocaust is very much open to further research and Dan Stone
is well placed to provide an informed overview, having spent
decades immersed in this subject. He is extremely well read, and
... is no dry academic: he is determined to ensure that the
brutality of the violence and the suffering of the victims are
conveyed vividly, with emotive quotations ... a powerful survey
*Literary Review*
Suprising… timely… a concise and accessible history that extends
beyond the death camps
*The New York Times*
A book that turns on their head some of the widely-held notions
about that terrible era of genocide 80 years ago
*Daily Mail*
Excellent and engrossing ... this is a history with empathy,
insight and depth at its core, all backed up by brave analysis ...
This is a vital and provocative book, impressively covering a
seismic event in little more than 300 pages, making it accessible
to the general reader as well as those in academia
*Irish Independent*
An incisive analysis of the genocidal endgame that unfolded from
Nazi antisemitism in the early 20th century
*Wall Street Journal*
A deeply felt and awesomely learned book
*Tablet*
Stone's new book is as up-to-date an overview as you are likely to
find ... he presents a strong argument that the Holocaust should be
understood as the result of ideological beliefs [and] ...
illuminates with great sympathy and insight a history of continuing
suffering and prejudice ... This is an outstanding book: well
written, deeply felt, always perceptive and exhibiting considerable
knowledge of decades of Holocaust scholarship. It will become the
standard work in English on the subject for some time to come
*History Today*
Stone's deeply humane account draws on an array of testimonies from
some of the most observant and perceptive victims, and he uses
these to devastating effect ... a well-written history of the
Holocaust and its aftermath, with accomplished use of eyewitness
accounts ... Dan Stone remains an important and eloquent voice in
the field of Holocaust studies
*Prospect*
A timely study of the holocaust that indicates the dangers of
selectively misremembering it ... vital ... offers a detailed
examination of the many roots of Nazism
*Morning Star*
Instead of presenting Holocaust history as a tidy affair wrapped in
a bow with neat moral messages, Stone proposes that we examine its
unfinishedness, its unknowability, and its very incompleteness…
confronts uncomfortable truths
*New Republic*
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