Auschwitz: A New History » (Special Value)

Laurence Rees is Creative Director of History Programs for the BBC and author of five books, including The Nazis: A Warning from History and Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II. He lives in London.

Published for the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz—a devastating and surprising account of the most infamous death camp the world has ever known.

The Washington Post - Don Von Drehle

Laurence Rees's compact, devastating new history of the infamous death factory distills a crucial lesson -- perhaps the crucial lesson -- of the 20th century: that the human capacity for mass murder is grotesquely widespread and must be faced squarely if we hope to resist it.