Fifty years after their occurrence, the events of the Holocaust remain for some of their most dedicated students as morally and intellectually baffling, as 'unthinkable', as they were at their first rumoring. Reading the Holocaust challenges that ...

During the 20th century many millions of people have been slaughtered, and the world has been on the brink of nuclear war. Have lessons been learned? If so, to what extent? This book explores the role that ideology has played in this century's atrocities.