Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction

In the early hours of November 10, 1938, Nazi storm troopers and Hitler Youth rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods across Germany, leaving behind them a horrifying trail of terror and destruction. More than a thousand synagogues and many thousands of Jewish shops were destroyed, while thirty thousand Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. Kristallnacht--the Night of Broken Glass--was a decisive stage in the systematic eradication of a people who traced their origins in Germany to Roman times and was a sinister forewarning of the Holocaust.

With rare insight and acumen, Martin Gilbert examines this night and day of terror, presenting readers with a meticulously researched, masterfully written, and eye-opening study of one of the darkest chapters in human history.

Author: Martin Gilbert
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 05/29/2007
Series: Making History
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 7.98h x 6.62w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780061121357