Eichmann and the Holocaust

Oct 12, 2024 12:34 AM

Author:Hannah Arendt

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Inspired by the trial of a bureaucrat who helped cause the Holocaust, this radical work on the banality of evil stunned the world with its exploration of a regime's moral blindness and one man's insistence that he be absolved all guilt because he was 'only following orders'.

Reviews

The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words

—— Guardian

A particularly vivid and personal narrative

—— Times Literary Supplement

Pioneering and hauntingly eloquent

—— Peter Parker , Spectator

The stories are atmospheric, but it is O'Neill's open-minded examination of her own position in relation to the women, the history and the writing that makes this book a work of art

—— What's On In London

Gilda O'Neill has brought to life a time when women relished simple pleasures and the close friendships formed while working alongside one another each summer

—— Sunday Express

The (pearly) queen of East End memoirists

—— Financial Times magazine

Few books on the Third Reich offer a genuinely fresh perspective on the period but Roger Moorhouse's engrossing chronicle of the plots against Hitler does

—— Nick Rennison , The Sunday Times

This book shows what a murderous place Hitler's Reich was, and that the Fuhrer had the devil's own luck

—— M.R.D. Foot

The first detailed account of the numerous attempts to kill one of history's most reviled dictators

—— Herald

Osborne has written a fluent and fascinating book.... Read and enjoy this remarkable book

—— THES

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