Professor Frank McDonough is an internationally renowned expert on the Third Reich. He studied history at Balliol College, Oxford and gained a PhD from Lancaster University. Now based in Liverpool, McDonough has written many critically acclaimed books, including The Gestapo, and most recently The Hitler Years, a two-volume history charting the rise and fall of the Nazi regime, and its prequel The Weimar Years. Holocaust is the latest instalment in his best-selling series on the history of Germany.
This accessible history will keep the subject alive for a new generation [..] It is about providing an accessible, sober and vivid resource that keeps the subject alive. In this aim, the book succeeds admirably. * The Times * A work of acute solemnity that finds a way to be all the more powerful because of its measured restraint. * The Telegraph * Holocaust is the fourth and concluding volume in Frank McDonough’s magisterial quartet of Germany history, from the rise of the Weimar Republic to the fall of the Third Reich. Meticulously researched and spanning a vast canvas, McDonough has written a compelling narrative that chronicles in unflinching fashion the diabolical crimes of Hitler’s murderous regime. A tour de force that should serve as a warning to us all. * Giles Milton, author of Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World * Praise for The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933: Yet again McDonough shows why he is one of the best chroniclers of 20th-century Germany. * Dan Snow *