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Published to acclaim in the UK, an authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust that "shatters many myths about the Nazis' genocide" (Sunday Times) , from one of the leading scholars of his generation."A stunning, original, concise analysis. ... Masterful." - Wendy Lower, author of Hitler's FuriesThe Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked.Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone - Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London - reveals how the idea of "industrial murder" is incomplete: many were killed where they lived in the most brutal of ways.
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Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London. He obtained his BA and DPhil at the University of Oxford, where he was also a postdoctoral Junior Research Fellow, and has taught at Royal Holloway since 1999. He is a historian of modern Europe with particular interests in the Holocaust, genocide, fascism, the history of the idea of "race", and theory of history.
