The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945 by Dawidowicz, Lucy S - 1975

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4th Printing Hard cover in very good condition with red boards, black spine cloth with gold gilt spine lettering, and title blind stamped on front board. Front end papers contain map of 'Europe Under German Rule, December 1942.' Rear end papers contain map titled 'Destruction of the European Jews"" with charts showing prewar Jewish population and number of Jews annihilated in designated areas. Interior text block clean & tight with no writing, no markings noted. Dust jacket very good; showing light shelf & edge wear with small closed tear to bottom front and chips to head & heel of spine. Not price clipped; there is no price on front flap. Concludes with Appendices, Notes, Sources, and Index. In addition to the end papers noted above, contains two other maps: The German Partition of Poland, 1939/41-1945, and The Einsatzgruppen, 1941-1942.460 numbered pages. * From a review by George Steiner, ""It is the great merit of Lucy S. Dawidowicz's work to stress and make clear the extent to which the destruction of the Jews was Hitler's main end, and to emphasize the hideous consistency of his policies. . . no other motives - economic, strategic, political - were allowed to modify the lunatic logic of Hitler's aim for a ""final solution"" of the ""Jewish problem."" This is, therefore, a profoundly necessary as well as moving reminder of a truth which other historian have found almost too irrational, too incredible to handle.""