Product details
ISBN
9780141987484
Published
2018
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Weight
135 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
130 mm
Thickness
10 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
176
Author
Translated by
Biographical note
Sybille Steinbacher teaches at The University of Bochum. She is currently Visiting Fellow at Harvard University.
Shaun Whiteside is a previous winner of The Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translations, and translator of The Birth of Tragedy and Musil's The Confessions of Young Törless for Penguin Classics. He lives in London.
At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to any European in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the world war. How Auschwitz grew and mutated into an entire dreadful city, how both those who managed it and those who were killed by it came to be in Poland in the 1940s, and how it was allowed to happen, is something everyone needs to understand.
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A short, devastating study of history's most notorious killing ground.
Product details
ISBN
9780141987484
Published
2018
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Weight
135 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
130 mm
Thickness
10 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
176
Author
Translated by
Biographical note
Sybille Steinbacher teaches at The University of Bochum. She is currently Visiting Fellow at Harvard University.
Shaun Whiteside is a previous winner of The Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translations, and translator of The Birth of Tragedy and Musil's The Confessions of Young Törless for Penguin Classics. He lives in London.