Author:Laurence Rees
The brutality of Japanese soldiers towards both allied prisoners of war and millions of civilians in Asia during the Second World War was one of the greatest horrors of the Twentieth Century. Here Laurence Rees, award-winning historian and author of Auschwitz and The Nazis: a Warning from History, turns his attention to a crucial question: why were these atrocities carried out?
In this classic and seminal study, Rees talks openly with perpetrators and victims alike, and asks how seemingly ordinary people were driven to mass murder, rape and suicide. Uncovering startling first-hand testimonies of cruelty and barbarity, Horror in the East looks to individual experiences to understand this dark and violent chapter of human history.
'Another stunning slice of history from Laurence Rees'
Daily Telegraph review of Horror in the East, BBC TV
Full of vivid anecdote … and of epigrammatic flair … it is a dense, detailed, moving chronicle.
—— Richard Eyre , Independent on SundayA tour de force of historical reconstruction
—— Sunday TimesThe People's War is more than a salutary iconoclastic analysis of its period and more than an immensely fastidious social history. It is full of vivid anecdote...and of epigrammatic flair... I've read Angus Calder's book several times and passed it on to friends. I've commissioned and directed several plays and films which have been inspired by it. It is a dense, detailed, moving chronicle that I am still unable to read without feeling both nostalgia and pain for the unfulfilled promise of the world I was born into
—— Richard Eyre , Independent on SundayNo verdict can I pronounce on The People's War other than, read it
—— Elizabeth Bowen , SpectatorHe has provided an engrossing, beautifully organized book that could provide a valuable education for the post-war generation and a salutary re-education for his elders
—— Phillip French , Financial TimesThe best social history of the second world war
—— John Vincent , Sunday TelegraphScrupulous and honest, this book is utterly without illusions. Rees, a distinguished journalist and historian at the BBC, layers these details with little fanfare but great craftsmanship. Reading this book is an ordeal - not through any failure of the author's but because of his success. Rees's research is impeccable and intrepid. Rees also makes good use of the records that became available only after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellites. spare, heartbreaking prose.
—— Washington PostI believe that Rees's book will be included in the canon of fundamental works shaping our knowledge about the Holocaust.
—— Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, former Polish Foreign Minister and one-time inmate of AuschwitzMonty and Rommel: Parallel Lives, is an utterly absorbing and entertaining book devoted to two of the most charismatic and strategically important military leaders of the Second World War .... It is certainly a must for anyone with a modicum of interest in the military and contemporary history
—— The NetworkerA first-class work of scholarly and entertaining history
—— Andrew RobertsA wonderful mine of information for fans of either general ... [Caddick-Adams] is a military historian of great industry who shows an impressive grasp of his materials ... The author's central purpose is achieved with impressive and cumulative success as his book progresses
—— New RepublicThis biography is one of a kind … tactical talents, personalities and military careers are rivetingly compared and evaluated
—— Express
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