The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy (A History of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War) by Gilbert, Martin - 1986

London: Collins, 1986 0002163055. Hardback reprint in year of publication. VG/VG. DW is not price-clipped. Some page corners were neatly turned down at some point in the book's existence. NOT ex-library. No inscriptions or annotations. 959 pages including index. Large 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original publisher's brown paper-covered boards, gilt lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, 5th impression in year of first publication. Thick large 8vo: map on endpapers, 25 maps, 34 photographs, list maps, list illustrations, acknowledgements, preface, epilogue, chapter notes & references, index. A history of the Jews in Europe startin in the 1930s and going on into the Second World War sourced from personal testimonies of survivors and records contemporary to the period. Deftly weaving together historical research and survivors' testimonies, "The Holcaust is Gilbert's acclaimed and definitive history of the European Jews, from Hitler's rise to power to Germany's surrender and to the liberation of the prisoners of the concentration camps." .