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  • The Holocaust

  • An Unfinished History
  • By: Dan Stone
  • Narrated by: John Sackville
  • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (40 ratings)

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By: Dan Stone
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The defining event of 20th century Europe - the extermination of millions of Jews - has been commemorated, institutionalised and embedded in our collective consciousness. But in this nuanced and perceptive new history, Dan Stone, professor of modern history and director of the Holocaust Research Institute, contends that the true dimension of the horror wrought by the Nazis is inadvertently brushed aside in our current culture of commemoration.

This is due in part to practical or conceptual challenges, such as the continent-wide scale of the crime and the multiplicity of sources in many languages; and in part, to an unwillingness to confront the reality that the Holocaust could not have happened without the assistance of numerous non-Nazi states and agents.

Structured around four themes - trauma, collaboration, genocidal fantasy and post-war consequences - The Holocaust demonstrates the genocidal logic of much European thinking in the wake of WWI, explores how the Holocaust's effects unfolded even after the liberation of the camps in 1945 and stresses the ways in which Europeans continue, even now, to draw on a reservoir of fascist vocabulary and imagery in times of crisis.

It is a deeply researched and indispensable examination of a trauma that still reverberates today.

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Expertly Written

What an audiobook. It’s so expertly written and narrated I listened too in one go with a couple of breaks. Glad to add this to my Holocaust collection. Worth the wait ( I pre ordered last year ).

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Superb

An excellent detailed summary of the events and issues before, during and after the Holocaust, that helps the understanding of events and consequences whilst briefly covering the complex historiography.

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Interesting...

informative and compelling to listen too. It was well structured and written. The narrator was very good.

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Latest Holocaust research

Excellent book by a well respected historian and expert in the field of Holocaust studies. Really well read, engaging, good pace to the narrative. The last chapter in particular raises some important challenges for Holocaust education.

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Great book let down by audio

This is a fascinating and important book. However, it is a terrible shame that it was never checked by a German speaker. Hitler’s project described as a war for “Liebensraum” rather than “Lebensraum” is jarring, to say the least. The mispronunciations are scattered throughout the audio and distract from the narrative’s message. Read this book, don’t listen to it.

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Very thorough, Intense and informative read. I do recommend for anyone researching genocide and or the shoah.

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Really informative

I learned so much from this audiobook - this horrifying story needs to be told again and again.

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Can’t get past the narrator

This is a wonderfully written book. However as an audiobook - it is dire. The narrators dismal pronunciation (hollycost) in the dullest of tones will sadly cause many to overlook the crucially uncomfortable questions this book seeks its readers to pose upon themselves. This is a vital piece of work but the delivery is detrimental to its message. Read, don’t listen.

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Dry and boring

I absolutely love history books and am more than happy if some are indepth or wordy or go into lots of detail.

The holocaust is a fascinating subject however the author seems to have found a way to bore the hell out of the reader. This is only 10 hours but there's a fair amount of repetition and "to quote historian [insert historian here'". It's almost like he had to somehow up the word count and didn't seem to have any opinion / research of his own. As such it ends up like you're listening to someone's master's thesis than a book designed for general consumption. The narrator does his best but alas I was defeated and gave up 2 hours in, this must be the first history book I've ever returned for a credit refund. There are countless great books on the holocaust, alas this just isn't one of them.

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Written woke progressive professor that compares objections to multiculturalism to straight fascism.

Could not finish. Book makes straight comparison from Trump and the like to the Holocaust while not a word on antisemitism within progressive groups.

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