Horror In The East

Resumen del libro

The brutality of Japanese soldiers towards both allied prisoners of war and millions of civilians in Asia during the Second World War was one of the greatest horrors of the Twentieth Century. Here Laurence Rees, award-winning historian and author of Auschwitz and The Nazis: a Warning from History, turns his attention to a crucial question: why were these atrocities carried out?In this classic and seminal study, Rees talks openly with perpetrators and victims alike, and asks how seemingly ordinary people were driven to mass murder, rape and suicide. Uncovering startling first-hand testimonies of cruelty and barbarity, Horror in the East looks to individual experiences to understand this dark and violent chapter of human history.

'Another stunning slice of history from Laurence Rees'Daily Telegraph review of Horror in the East, BBC TV

Biografía del autor

LAURENCE REES ha sido productor y director creativo de la BBC, en programas de historia y series documentales. Entre sus libros destacan Nazis: a Warning from History (1997), Auschwitz (Crítica, 2005) y El holocausto asiático (Crítica, 2009), todos ellos llevados también a la pequeña pantalla. Sus obras han recibido varios premios, entre ellos un BAFTA, dos International Documentary, un British Book y dos Emmy. En Crítica ha publicado también Una guerra de exterminio. Hitler contra Stalin (2006), A puerta cerrada. Historia oculta de la segunda guerra mundial (2009), El oscuro carisma de Hitler (2013) y El holocausto (2017).