{"title":"Books by Dan Stone","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780198723387","title":"Concentration Camps","description":"Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of twentieth century warfare, and one that is important to the modern global consciousness and identity. Although the most famous concentration camps are those under the Nazis, the use of concentration camps originated several decades before the Third Reich, in the Philippines and in the Boer War, and they have been used again in numerous locations, not least during the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda. Over the course of the twentieth century they have become defining symbols of humankind's lowest point and basest acts. In this Very Short Introduction, Dan Stone gives a global history of concentration camps, and shows that it is not only \"mad dictators\" who have set up camps, but instead all varieties of states, including liberal democracies, that have made use of them. Setting concentration camps against the longer history of incarceration, he explains how the ability of the modern state to control populations led to the creation of this extreme institution. Looking at their emergence and spread around the world, Stone argues that concentration camps serve the purpose, from the point of view of the state in crisis, of removing a section of the population that is perceived to be threatening, traitorous, or diseased. Drawing on contemporary accounts of camps, as well as the philosophical literature surrounding them, Stone considers the story camps tell us about the nature of the modern world as well as about specific regimes. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56226456863093,"sku":"9780198723387","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780198723387_0df70055-a75d-464c-837d-b278520f7e95.jpg?v=1786012208"},{"product_id":"9780241508749","title":"The Holocaust","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi genocide . . . . surprising . . . provocative . . . fizzes with ideas. Even if you think you know the subject, you'll probably find something here to make you think' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Erudite...remarkable' \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'Outstanding' \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust, from one of the leading scholars of his generation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialized and much-portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning the entirety of the Holocaust and across the world, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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, we must understand the true history of the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56229418041717,"sku":"9780241508749","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241508749_f874f53d-0a36-45de-bd58-f36aca308b19.jpg?v=1786012952"},{"product_id":"9780300270266","title":"The Liberation of the Camps – The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath","description":"A moving, deeply researched account of survivors’ experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult years that followed   When tortured inmates of Hitler’s concentration and extermination camps were liberated in 1944 and 1945, the horror of the atrocities came fully to light. It was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners, yet for those who had survived the unimaginable, the experience of liberation was a slow, grueling journey back to life. In this unprecedented inquiry into the days, months, and years following the arrival of Allied forces at the Nazi camps, a foremost historian of the Holocaust draws on archival sources and especially on eyewitness testimonies to reveal the complex challenges liberated victims faced and the daunting tasks their liberators undertook to help them reclaim their shattered lives.      Historian Dan Stone focuses on the survivors—their feelings of guilt, exhaustion, fear, shame for having survived, and devastating grief for lost family members; their immense medical problems; and their later demands to be released from Displaced Persons camps and resettled in countries of their own choosing. Stone also tracks the efforts of British, American, Canadian, and Russian liberators as they contended with survivors’ immediate needs, then grappled with longer-term issues that shaped the postwar world and ushered in the first chill of the Cold War years ahead.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56232421720437,"sku":"9780300270266","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780300270266_59890213-c553-46b1-872f-806198e66991.jpg?v=1786032919"},{"product_id":"9780736956383","title":"The Rest of the Gospel","description":"“Do I have life ‘more abundant’?”  That’s a question millions of Christians have asked down through the ages.  Dan Stone asked that question during a time of spiritual frustration in his own life and God answered by showing Dan he had been living only a part of the gospel message. Dan’s search led him to discover the truth of “Christ in you” as “the rest of the gospel” that most Christians overlook. Readers who are hungry for a deeper experience with God will resonate with Dan’s discovery of “the rest of the gospel,” which is indeed rest for everyone who is willing to finally let go and let God.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296260239733,"sku":"9780736956383","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780736956383_1c8d6d83-cd3c-4086-90f9-1c071ed4d1da.jpg?v=1786032950"},{"product_id":"the-forgotten-holocaust","title":"The Forgotten Holocaust","description":"Romania’s role in the Holocaust was a complex and terrible one, overlooked in comparison to the rest of Europe and only now being reckoned with.   Dan Stone's remarkable new book tells the full story of Romania in the dark period during the Second World War, from when it joined the Axis powers until it switched sides in 1944. As a country with a large Jewish population and several other notable minority groups, the survival of almost half of this population has led many to infer that Romania had a milder attitude when compared to the Final Solution in German-held territories. But this obscures the extraordinary ferocity, particularly in occupied Transnistria (today's Ukraine), with which Romanian soldiers and civilians murdered their Jewish citizens. Drawing on a wide range of sources from perpetrators and victims, Stone sheds new light on the Eastern Front during the Second World War, as well as revealing the little-known aftermath of the Holocaust in Communist Romania.   Enlightening and shocking, The Forgotten Holocaust makes a lasting and important contribution to our understanding of the history of twentieth-century Europe.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499133739381,"sku":"9780241688557","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-dan-stone.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}