Reviews of entire books – brochures, monographs, anthologies.
By Ezra Macvie ∙ February 23, 2014
by Keith Lowe, St. Martin’s Press, 2012, 460 pp. Keith Lowe is a professional historian in every sense, most of them good. He is not only diligent, energetic, insightful, and scrupulous, he is also imaginative in the best ways, and an engaging writer of prose. Being young, he has his career ahead of him and…
By Ezra Macvie ∙ December 1, 2013
by Germar Rudolf (ed.), Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago 2003 (second edition) 612pp., with index Arthur Butz’s devastating The Hoax of the Twentieth Century was the broadside that heralded the destruction of the evil propaganda legacy of World War II since labeled “the Holocaust.” The next step needed in this process of rectification was to…
By Ezra Macvie ∙ October 1, 2013
The Invention of the Jewish People, by Shlomo Sand, Verso, Brooklyn 2010 (second edition), 325 pp., with index “Behind every act in Israel’s identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal people and race.”—Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People, p. 280 This book reports the history of a…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ October 1, 2012
By Santiago Alvarez and Pierre Marais, The Barnes Review, Washington, D.C., 2011, 390 pp., illustrated, with notes, bibliography, indexed. The Gas Vans fills a significant hole in Holocaust literature, often forgotten in the public mind and limited to minor entries in the most important Holocaust tomes (gas vans are mentioned on 4 pages out of…
By Ezra Macvie ∙ October 1, 2012
The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Revised edition, Penguin Group, New York, 2010, 379 pp. This book is about the profound subjects of thinking, knowing, understanding, and then acting (or just as often, refraining from acting) on understanding. While it concentrates on how to think, know, and understand, it necessarily, and very valuably, strays…
By Henry Gardner ∙ April 1, 2013
The Case For Auschwitz, by Robert Jan van Pelt, Indiana University Press Bloomington, IN 2002. 570 pp., with notes, bibliography, indexed. It is strange that an event, or rather a series of events that have marked the history of the 20th century perhaps more strongly than any other with the possible exception of the annihilation…
By Ezra Macvie ∙ April 1, 2013
Safe Among the Germans: Liberated Jews After World War II, by Ruth Gay. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, 347 pp. Perhaps unintentionally, the title of this fascinating study of the infamous Displaced-Persons camps in postwar Germany is very generous to Germans. It suggests that, in some act of contrition, those Germans who survived World…
By Ezra Macvie ∙ December 1, 2012
By Erik Larson. Crown Publishing Group, New York, 2011, 448 pp. By June 1933, the “Nazis”—a new word in the world’s lexicon—had held power in Germany for almost six months, and were not expected to last, unlikely characters as virtually all of them were. The American ambassador to Germany had left his post shortly after…
By Daniel D. Desjardins ∙ July 1, 2012
Night, by Elie Wiesel. Bantam Books, New York, 1982, 109 pp. In Night, written by Elie Wiesel, winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize for literature, has, for such a small book, a very large reputation. I hasten to mention, however, the Bantam Books edition I am reviewing boasts the complete text of the original…
By Ezra Macvie ∙ July 1, 2012
By Evan Burr Bukey, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N. C., 2000, 320 pp. In 1938, if you were an Austrian over forty, you, or your brothers, husband, sons, had fought on the losing side of the Great War, and seen the former Austro-Hungarian empire cut up after the war into a dozen…
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