Why?: Explaining the Holocaust

by Peter Hayes and Peter Hayes

Book Overview

Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth century still seems elusive even seventy years later. Numerous theories have sprouted in an attempt to console ourselves and to point the blame in emotionally satisfying directions--yet none of them are fully convincing. As witnesses to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393254364
• ISBN13: 9780393254365
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.5"