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The definitive story of the development of the Nazi's anti- Semitic policies, from the beginnings to the heyday of Auschwitz, by the acclaimed author of ORDINARY MEN.

About the Author

Christopher Browning is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written a number of modern history books, including Ordinary Men- Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (1992); The Path to Genocide (1992); The Final Solution and the German Foreign Office (1978) and Nazi Policy, Jewish Labour, German Killers (2000).

Reviews

Sensitive and nuanced, this is a fine piece of synthesis and analysis
*Sunday Times*

Superb . . . [Browning] has created an eloquent, painstaking narrative of how the Final Solution evolved
*Wall Street Journal*

This is a book of exceptional quality - The work of a historian at the peak of his powers, a magisterial study, a profound analysis of how the darkest chapter in human history could come about
*Ian Kershaw, bestselling author of Hitler*

This magisterial work... An unrivaled account of how the Nazi leadership ended up with a policy of industrialized mass murder of Jews - Probably no one is better qualified for this task than Christopher Browning.
*Mark Mazower, New York Times*

Browning is persuasive because he marshals his evidence with unrivalled skill and writes with awesome clarity.
*Literary Review*