Raul Hilberg
The Destruction of the European Jews.
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1967. Fourth printing with postscript. viii/790 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 8.5", is bound in gilt-lettered half black leather and light green cloth-covered boards. Book displays very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. Text is in double  This work contains appendices and index.
""The German bureaucracy from 1933 to 1945 achieved the death of more than five million Jews. Nazi Germany gave no quarter; the Jewish masses died without resistance; the onlookers were not moved to effective action. This book is the story of that unprecedented event. The destruction process began with the early racial laws of the Nazi regime -- which involved the crucial definition of the term "Jew" -- and extended to its violent climax in the tank ditches of Russia and the killing centers of Poland. It covered all of European Jewry, from Norway to Greece. It developed inexorably in a sequence of steps that are here described in detail: the definition of Jewry, the expropriation of the Jews, their physical concentration, and finally, their mass annihilation. Most writing on this subject is "catastrophe" literature viewing the events through the eyes of the victims; this book, however, focusses (sic) on the Germans. It is the only study based on the entire unindexed collection of Nuremberg documents and other materials. Viewed through these sources, the pattern of the destruction process can be seen as a series of administrative measures involving thousands of individuals and a sprawling bureaucratic machine. This book is the authoritative and documented narrative history of the greatest process of human destruction that has yet occurred. It is a sourcebook for the specialist, an analysis for the theorist, and a story without parallel for the general readers."