After the Reich : The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation
Giles MacDonogh is the author of 1938: Hitler's Gamble, The Last Kaiser: A Life of Wilhelm II, and Frederick the Great. MacDonogh was born in London in 1955 and studied history at Oxford University. He has a regular column in the Financial Times and has written for the Times (London), Guardian, and Evening Standard. He lives in London.
"A sometimes violent and often disturbing history that prods the
reader to think about the choices of conquerors."--Seattle
Times
"An account of tragic human experience, all too little known, in
the words of those who lived through it. It is not only a
fascinating story but a unique and valuable historical
document."--New York Review of Books
"Giles MacDonogh's shocking new book gives a very different and
long overdue alternative view--and all the more sobering for being
written in a style that betrays no hint of the author's anger at
the appalling atrocities he relates....[A] superb book written by a
sympathetic writer in perfect control of his often dreadful
material. Overall, MacDonogh has told a story that had to be told
and told it very well. The book teaches, in fact, an old and
classic lesson: it is better not to start wars, but it is fatal to
lose them."--History Today
"MacDonogh has written a grueling but important book. This unhappy
story has long been cloaked in silence since telling it suited no
one. Not the Allies, because it placed them near the moral nadir of
the Nazis; not the Germans, because they did not wish to be accused
of whitewashing Hitler by highlighting what was, by any standard, a
war crime. Giles MacDonogh has told a very inconvenient
truth."--Sunday Telegraph (London)
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