The maps, and the text and photographs that accompany them, powerfully depict the fate of the Jews between 1933 and 1945, while also setting the chronological story in the wider context of the war itself. The maps include:
This revised edition includes a new section which gives an insight into the layout and organization of some of the most significant places of the Holocaust, including Auschwitz, Treblinka and the Warsaw ghetto, maps that will be especially useful to those visiting the sites.
Sir Martin Gilbert is one of the leading historians of his generation. An Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford – of which he was a fellow for thirty years - he is the official biographer of Winston Churchill and the author of eighty books, among them The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War, The Holocaust: The Jewish tragedy, The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust, and Churchill and the Jews. For more information on his books visit http://www.martingilbert.com.