Born in London in 1936, Sir Martin Gilbert was educated at Highgate School and Magdalene College, Oxford. An outstanding historian of the 20th century, he became the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill in 1968 and has written to great acclaim on the Holocaust and the events of the Second World War.
HOLOCAUST JOURNEY travels along the tracks of a history we would
rather forget to the sites of wartime horror, and is also a moving
excavation of the past
*INDEPENDENT*
Eloquent ... He presents a painless-to-read and
painful-to-understand voyage to some of the grimmest and most
unspeakable names and places on earth
*DAILY MAIL*
Martin Gilbert is one of the seminal historians of the Holocaust
... Gilbert and his group follow by train many of the routes that
the cattle trucks, jammed tight with Europe's Jews, took as they
traversed Nazi-occupied Europe ... Gilbert's erudition and
explanations of the facts of the Nazi genocide are skilfully
blended in with his own observations and those of the group ... the
achievement of Gilbert's HOLOCAUST JOURNEY is to reduce to
comprehensible, human terms of the scale of the genocide that to
many is still unimaginable
*LITERARY REVIEW*
Gilbert depicts with infinite pathos and painstaking detail the
cataclysm that hit the Jews of Europe when Germany's armies were
unleashed upon their territories. In a skilful combination of past
and present, he presents his travelogue in a form that is easily
accessible to all, that moves us deeply with its tale of endless
atrocities and utter human misery
*JEWISH CHRONICLE*
Gilbert's knowledge of his subject, and his contacts across the
blood-stained landscape of the Holocaust, make him an ideal
organizer of such a tour ... As one would expect from Gilbert, the
account is well-informed and well-written ... the book is filled
with short, well-informed and often heart-rending accounts of the
fate of the Jews
*TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT*
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