About this title: Despite the plethora of books on Nazi Germany and its genocidal "Final Solution," there have been few sustained general studies, and none at all on the prewar period until the publication of "The Years of Persecution", the first volume of Saul Friedlander's epic study "Nazi Germany and the Jews". Covering the period from Hitler's rise to power to ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780060190422ISBN:0060190426
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 3/10/1998
ISBN-13:9780060928780ISBN:0060928786
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Description: Near Fine. Trade Paperback. Harper Perennial, 1998. Near Fine Book. Aside from book toned with one page creased, overall a clean and tight, lightly read copy. Media mail packed in protective bubble lined shipping bags, Priority in a Flat Rate Envelope. Shipped quickly. Prompt response to questions. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780060928780ISBN:0060928786
Description: Good with no dust jacket. 0060928786. 1.3 x 9.1 x 6.1 Inches; 464 pages; Vol 1. Pages in nice shape; remainder mark and soiling on pg block. No spine creases; cover has shelf wear plus couple dents. Quick shipping w/delivery confirmation; bubble mailers. read more
Edition: 5th Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper Collins, N Y.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780060190422ISBN:0060190426
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover edition....nice copy...binding is solid...text unmarked....lacking d.j....military history, ww II, europe. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited, Scarborough, ON, Canada
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780060928780ISBN:0060928786
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Binding is tight, the front cover bottom corner is diagonally creased and bumped; light corner rubbing; 'used' sticker to the spine. Text is clean. '[The author] draws strength from memory, yet adheres scrupulously to the discipline of a historian's detachment. ' 439 pages. read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins, N Y.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780060190422ISBN:0060190426
Description: Very Good++ in Near Fine jacket. ......hardcover edition w/ dustjacket...nice clean copy WITH BRODART DUSTJACKET COVER INCLUDED....this is NOT an ex library....remainder mark....military history, ww II, europe. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harpercollins
Date Published: 1998-02-01
ISBN-13:9780060928780ISBN:0060928786
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780060928780ISBN:0060928786
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Description: Very Good. Harper Collins, HC with DJ, 1st edition, 5th printing, might be a book club edition, Clean, tight, no markings or highlighting, minimal wear on book, DJ has slight edge wear. read more
Edition: First Edition; Fifth Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper Collins
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780060190422ISBN:0060190426
Description: New in New dust jacket. 0060190426. New; New 1997 stated first edition, fifth printing hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. No price on dust jacket. Protective mylar cover.; 1.49 x 9.3 x 6.54 Inches; 464 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780060190422ISBN:0060190426
Description: Good. Cream and black covers with gilt lettering on spine. 436 pages. Covers somewhat warped. Pages clean and tightly bound. No evidence of previous owner. read more
Description: Very Good. 0060190426 First Edition Hardcover book in excellent condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight. Blind stamp on lower corner of dust jacket and 2nd page. read more
Description: Like New. Collectible-Like New Like New dust jacket. First edition. Remains of sticker on back of dust jacket. Book bright/clean. read more
"A remarkable and must-read book. Thorough and scholarly and yet very readable. Full of information from the overall and historical viewpoint as well as the details that bring it all together. I am off to Volume II."
"Saul Friedländer's Nazi Germany and the Jews seems destined to become one of the magisterial works in the field. The second volume clocks in at around 800 pages, but this first one is a shorter book, that nevertheless manages to detail the path to the death camps through a discussion both of the political maneuvering at the highest levels of German politics as well as through telling vignettes from the lives of ordinary Germans, both Jewish and non-Jewish. Friedländer is far too canny and wise a historian to attribute some kind of Sonderweg (a la Goldhagen's unsatisfactory Hitler's Willing Executioners) to the Germans that purports to explain why they could "fall" for Nazism. Instead, one is left with, to me, an entirely appropriate feeling of perplexity at how so many people, not all of whom were anti-Semites or out and out evil, could fall in with the terrible plans of their leaders. (And of course, there are a few - sadly, a very few - shining examples of those who held out against the pressure to conform.)
If you're at all interested in the history of the period, I recommend it. (And fittingly, I am writing this review on September 1, 2009, the 70th anniversary of the German - and Russian - invasion of Poland that sparked the bloodiest conflict the world has ever known.)"
"This is an excellent work of history- rigorous, balanced, and insightful. The most remarkable aspect of the book is its ability to weave together the individual stories of people from all levels of the Nazi regime and from all of the parts of the society that it victimized. It is moving in many places, and remarkably thorough. If you enjoy serious works of history, this book will not disappoint."
"The Years of Persecution is the first of a two-volume work on the Holocaust by Saul Friedlander. It covers the years 1933 (when Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany) to 1939 (when Germany invaded Poland, an event that generally marks the start of World War II, though I contend that World War II actually started in 1937, with the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War, and to hold otherwise is ethnocentric...but I digress).
The book starts with art and culture, and shows the Germans chipping away at Jewish rights. Banning a book here, a play there, a concert here, a movie there. It's very gradual, and that's what this book shows in clear, concise detail: the gradual yet inevitable path from petty insults, to the loss of some rights, to the loss of all rights, to utter annihilation.
The book comes with a great pedigree, and I was a little worried I was in for a scholarly (see, "unreadable") book. But actually, this volume is quite short (about 330 pages) and quite quick.
The brevity comes at a cost, however. There is little context for overall events, and almost nothing of the mechanics of history. You never get to meet the personalities that made this atrocity possible. Hitler, Goering, Himmler, Heydrich, and Goebbels never become anything more than names (albeit infamous names). You never know how certain events - such as Kristalnacht or the Reichstag fire - occurred; rather, you are told they happened and then learn of the cnosequences. It's a very just-the-facts approach, leavened with some insightful analysis, especially with regards to the role that "ordinary Germans" played (there is no overheated "willing executioners" section, ala Daniel David Goldhagen) and how Austria's treatment of Jews, especially at Mauthausen, provided a "final solution" blueprint.
My favorite part of the book, though, was its judicious use of anectdotes and case studies. Whenever I started to think I was reading a political science text, the author would remind us of the human dimension, using the letters, diaries, and testimony of actual Holocaust survivors.
The feeling I came away with is that there's something infinitely dark and impenetrable about the Holocaust. Despite the hundreds of books written about Hitler, which try to explain him through pop-psychology (was the Holocaust caused by his poor potty training? an oral fixation? latent homosexuality? his failed love affair with Geli Raubal?), Friedlander does not try to explain "how" or "why" the Nazis could have perpetrated such a crime. Rather, there is an acceptance of something akin to unknowable evil that I can't entirely disagree with."
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