Death and Deliverance by Michael Burleigh
Between 1939 and 1945 the Nazis systematically murdered as many as 200,000 mentally ill or physically disabled people whom they stigmatised as 'life unworthy of life'. This book examines this complex and covert series of operations known as the 'euthanasia' programme. It also considers the role of all those involved in the programme.
'History writing is rarely this moving, or so admirably, effectively, moralistic' David Ceserani, The Guardian; 'This is a terrible bookEveryone ought to read it. It is difficult to believe that this account could be improved upon' Anthony Storr, The Times; 'Outstanding and chilling [Michael Burleigh] provides one of the most penetrating insights yet written into the individual mentalities - and the resulting collective "mentality" - of Nazism.' Niall Ferguson, The Sunday Telegraph; 'An impressive and harrowing book whose suppleness, fluency and accretion of case histories and anecdotes particularise the horror.' Jonathan Meades, Mail on Sunday
Michael Burleigh is a historian and commentator. His books include the bestselling The Third Reich: A New History, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize; Small Wars, Far Away Places, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, The Best of Times, The Worst of Times and Day of the Assassins. He writes regularly for the The Times, Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday on international affairs and has also won a British Film Institute Award for Archival Achievement and a New York Film and Television Festival Award Bronze Medal. A Professor of Modern History, Michael was the first appointed Engelsberg Chair of History and International Relations at LSE IDEAS from 2019 to 2020, which is an annual distinguished visiting professorship, delivering public lectures to LSE's foreign policy think tank. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330488396 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330488392 |
| Title | Death and Deliverance |
| Author | Michael Burleigh |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2002-02-08 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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