Reviews of entire books – brochures, monographs, anthologies.
By William Halvorsen ∙ November 1, 1999
Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life Some years ago, a leading Holocaust historian, Deborah Dwork spoke at a memorial to “Crystal Night” in British Columbia, the night in November 1938 when Nazi mobs, inspired by the murder of a German foreign official by a Polish Jew, destroyed hundreds of Jewish stores and shops. According…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ January 1, 1999
Auschwitz: The Final Count, edited by Vivian Bird. The Barnes Review, Washington, D.C.. 1999. Soft cover. 112 pages. Notes. $12.95. Vivian Bird's latest effort is an anthology of essays dealing with what he describes as the “true story” of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The title of this work as well as its recent promotions suggest…
By Stephen J. Sniegoski ∙ April 13, 1998
Nuremberg: The Last Battle by David Irving. Focal Point Publications, 1996. 377 + x pp., £20.00. Stephen J. Sniegoski As stated in the title of by David Irving's book, the Nuremberg Trial was the last battle of World War II in Europe. Nazi Germany had already been physically destroyed by the superior military power of…
By Michael Mills ∙ March 31, 1998
The Confessions of Kurt Gerstein, by Henri Roques, Paperback (June 1989), Inst for Historical Review; ISBN: 0939484277; Our Price: $7.50. Availability: This title usually ships within 4-6 weeks… Amazon.com Sales Rank: 332,621 [email protected]From Michael Mills,Canberra, Australia,March 31, 1998 A thorough analysis of a key document of World War 2 This book was originally a doctoral…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 12, 1997
The Hitler of History, by John Lukacs. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1997. xiv + 282 pages. $26.00. Lukacs emigrated from Hungary to the United States in 1946 and has taught at various universities. He now lives in Pennsylvania. Lukacs discusses and evaluates many biographical works on Hitler and suggests that there might be a…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ January 1, 1997
Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz, by Rudolf Höss. Steven Paskuly, ed., Andrew Pollinger, trans., with a foreword by Primo Levi. Da Capo Press, New York. 1996. Softcover. 390 pages. Notes. $15.95. This volume of the memoirs of Rudolf Höss is flawed by the editor's refusal to objectively present the material….
By Henri Roques ∙ January 8, 1996
Florent Brayard, Comment l'idée vint à M. Rassinier. Naissance du révisionnisme. Préface by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Paris, Fayard, 1996, 464 p., ISBN : 2-213-59507-0, 160 F ttc. Mr. Brayard is a lucky student. After his Master's degree dissertation at the University of Nancy II, he was awarded a prize at the School of Advanced Studies in…
By Dana I. Alvi ∙ August 12, 1996
Webster's Dictionary defines the word “anthology” as: “collection of poems, stories, etc.” The book Anthology on Armed Jewish Resistance 1939-1945 (1986 Second Revised Edition) by Isaac Kowalski, (ISBN 0-9613219-0-3) is made up of stories of valor, various claims and charges, some anonymous, most fantastic. Nothing in this 650 page book is authenticated. Not a single…
By Paul Grubach ∙ January 10, 1993
Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust, by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, New York, Columbia University Press, 1992, 205 pp., $27.50. Regarding the alleged mass murder of European Jewry during WWII, two schools of thought have emerged. “Exterminationists” believe the German government carried out a policy of systematic extermination, referred to as the “Final…
By Paul Grubach ∙ January 9, 1994
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by Deborah E. Lipstadt (The Free Press, N.Y., 1993, 278 pages). Holocaust revisionism is beginning to cut a deep swath of skepticism through modern history. Although as yet no public debate is permitted on the subject, the Exterminationist crowd is getting nervous—so nervous that four…
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