The Holocaust

An Unfinished History

By: Dan Stone

Narrated by: John Sackville

Published to acclaim in the UK, an authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust that “shatters many myths about the Nazis’ genocide” (Sunday Times), from one of the leading scholars of his generation.

“A stunning, original, concise analysis. … Masterful.” —Wendy Lower, author of Hitler’s Furies

The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked.

Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone—Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London—reveals how the idea of “industrial murder” is incomplete: many were killed where they lived in the most brutal of ways. He outlines the depth of collaboration across Europe, arguing persuasively that we need to stop thinking of the Holocaust as an exclusively German project. He also considers the nature of trauma the Holocaust engendered, and why Jewish suffering has yet to be fully reckoned with. And he makes clear that the kernel to understanding Nazi thinking and action is genocidal ideology, providing a deep analysis of its origins.

Drawing on decades of research, The Holocaust: An Unfinished History upends much of what we think we know about the Holocaust. Stone draws on Nazi documents, but also on diaries, post-war testimonies, and even fiction, urging that, in our age of increasing nationalism and xenophobia, it is vital that we understand the true history of the Holocaust.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Great Story of the European Holocaust

This audiobook describes in detail the European murder of the Jews from 1933 to 1945. Every important factor was discussed and the tragedy was explained in depth.

Clear history. Broad understanding

The understanding of the European antisemitism and its implications for the
Holocaust review of the extent of the problem in pre war Europe.

An outstanding audiobook

This book was so well researched and so clearly presented. Yet it was sad to learn how indifferent so many people were to what the Nazis were doing, and even how many collaborated. The narration by John Sackville was outstanding. It’s hard to see how a narrator could’ve done any better.

Important work hampered by performance

Truly an important piece of non fiction, however the narrator is a bit dull, which isn't a huge issue, but also tends to slur words together which makes me constantly rewinding in order to catch what was said.

The ongoing fascism

The parallel between Adolph Hitler, Vladimir Putin and the US president from 2016 to 2020 is absolute and terrifying.