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A brilliant re-examination of the Holocaust from one of our leading historians.

Table of Contents

• • Section - i: Maps
  • Section - ii: List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements - iii: Acknowledgements
  • Introduction - iv: Introduction
• Section - v: Prologue
• Chapter - One: The First Year 1933
• Chapter - Two: Judenpolitik 1937-1938
• Chapter - Three: Pogrom 1938-1941
• Chapter - Four: War 1939-1941
• Chapter - Five: Barbarossa 1941
• Chapter - Six: Final Solution 1942
• Chapter - Seven: Total War 1943
• Chapter - Eight: The Last Phase 1944-1945
• Section - vi: Epilogue
• Section - vii: Conclusion
• • Section - viii: Glossary
  • Section - ix: Bibliography
  • Section - x: Notes
  • Index - xi: Index

About the Author

David Cesarani is internationally recognised as one of this generation's leading Jewish and Holocaust scholars. He is research professor in History at Royal Holloway. His most recent book, Major Farran's Hat (Heinemann, 2009), was nominated for a Golden Dagger and was a finalist for the US National Jewish Book Award for History 2009. His biography of Adolf Eichmann was winner of the National Jewish Book Award in 2006 and has been translated into a dozen languages. Earlier books include an acclaimed biography of Arthur Koestler (1998) and the controversial Justice Delayed (1992), the story of how Britain became a haven for Nazi war criminals after the end of the war. He has extensive broadcasting and print media experience. In 2005 he was awarded an OBE for his work in the establishment of Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK and is a trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. He also serves on the UK delegation to the International Task Force for Holocaust Remembrance, Education and Research.

Reviews

A brilliant synthesis and interpretation of the greatest crime of the modern era ... There is so much of value in this harrowing and extraordinary book that it's hard to encompass in a review ... There are stories here I didn't know and could scarcely have imagined ... A book that demands to be read and deserves every historical award going.
*The Times*

This is an elegantly written, honest and plausible account and it deserves to be widely read and reflected upon in a continent where racial and religious prejudice is not as far below the surface as we would like to think. Final Solution is a fitting monument to a fine historian and a fine human being.
*Literary Review*

Masterly . . . Final Solution will take its place among the most authoritative surveys of the persecution and murder of European Jewry in the Second World War.
*Financial Times*

A masterpiece . . . dense with fascinating detail, so very well written, and so passionately and compellingly argued.
*Jewish Chronicle*

With his ability to bring coherence to the confusion of genocide and connect those narratives to geopolitical events, Cesarani makes us rethink the Holocaust.
*Prospect*

Traces a path across a vast mass of material - new and old - demonstrating with urgency and verve how Hitler's progress towards mass extermination of the Jews was never pre-planned or preordained . . . utterly convincing . . . One of Cesarani's most remarkable achievements is to reinvigorate this monstrous narrative
*Daily Telegraph*

Lengthy, compelling and devastating . . . a powerful and intensely moving account, drawing on the diaries and letters of those who suffered and died as well as the historical accounts and bland instructions of the remorseless killers
*Irish Independent*

It is difficult not to be first moved and then overwhelmed by the mere listing of what happened, and in this respect Cesarani has fulfilled his ambition of reclaiming the killings of the Jews for another generation.
*Observer*