Dan Stone is professor of modern history, Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published twenty books on the Holocaust, genocide, and twentieth-century European history, including The Holocaust: An Unfinished History.
“[An] engrossing and illuminating book—the first full and
comparative study of the subject.”—Richard J. Evans, New York
Review of Books
“[Stone] has produced a body of thoughtful, occasionally
provocative work that has genuinely enhanced our understanding of
these subjects. He writes with clarity, straightforwardness and a
willingness to allow his personal commitment to show. . . . [A]
typically engaging and rewarding read.”—Ben Barkow, Jewish
Chronicle
“The real power of Stone’s history lies in a sense in of
indomitable vigour and self-belief. . . . Stone does a good job of
showing how even as nations declared peace, individuals and
families still had to fight on desperately.”—Sinclair McKay, Daily
Telegraph
“[A] thoughtful, sensitive and well-researched treatment of an
important and rarely covered subject.”—Roger Moorhouse, BBC History
Magazine
“Is freedom really a thing that can be brought by one person to
another, for example by a soldier to an inmate of a concentration
camp? It is appealing to think so, and thus to imagine a precise
and satisfying ending to the war. Stone’s pioneering study of the
process of liberation demands, instead, that we consider seriously
the meaning of freedom.”—Timothy Snyder, Association for Jewish
Studies
“In recent years, Dan Stone’s name has been a guarantee of quality.
. . . A clear step in the right direction, it focuses on the
centre-piece of western Holocaust memory—the moment when the
American and British armies, in April 1945, made the shocking
discovery of the concentration camps in Germany.”—Jan Lanicek,
History
“Dan Stone’s history of the liberation of the camps is remarkable
for the vast array of its sources, its extremely detailed inquiry
and, nonetheless, for its highly readable narrative. It will remain
a reference for years to come.”—Saul Friedländer, author of Nazi
Germany and the Jews
“The liberation of the camps in 1944–45 can be seen as a merciful
release by Allied armies dedicated to eliminating the cruelties of
Hitler’s Reich. Dan Stone in this searingly honest account of the
liberation and its aftermath shows how many paradoxes and
ambiguities there were in the whole process. This is the story of
an awful human tragedy told with sympathy and understanding. There
are lessons here for our own age.”—Richard Overy, author of Why the
Allies Won
“The Liberation of the Camps should become the most important and
widely read book on its subject.”—Geoff Eley, author of Nazism as
Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany,
1930–1945
“This is the best book on the liberation of Jews from the Nazi
camps—important and insightful. Drawing on many deeply moving
testimonies, Dan Stone expertly charts the long and painful path
from prisoner to survivor.”—Nikolaus Wachsmann, author of KL: A
History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
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