{"title":"Sir Martin Gilbert","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSir Martin Gilbert\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a profound exploration of history through meticulously researched narratives. His works delve deep into pivotal events such as the First and Second World Wars, providing readers with comprehensive insights into military strategies, political contexts, and personal stories from these defining moments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor those intrigued by the human experience within history, \u003cem\u003eHolocaust Journey: Travelling In Search Of The Past\u003c\/em\u003e exemplifies his commitment to illuminating the past with sensitivity and detail. This collection is essential for readers seeking a thoughtful and authoritative perspective on 20th-century history and military affairs.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"holocaust-journey-travelling-in-search-of-the-past-by-sir-martin-gilbert-9781399610902","title":"Holocaust Journey: Travelling In Search Of The Past","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIncludes a new foreword by Rob Rinder\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat readers are saying about \u003ci\u003eHolocaust Journey\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Brilliant ... A must read for everybody'\u003c\/b\u003e ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Devastating'\u003c\/b\u003e ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fascinating, thought provoking and shocking'\u003c\/b\u003e ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Everybody should read this'\u003c\/b\u003e ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Informative and emotional'\u003c\/b\u003e ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn June 1996, Martin Gilbert took a group of students on a two-week journey across middle-Europe. The trip encompassed all the major places in the Holocaust - from Wannsee, where the extermination of the Jews was decreed, to the camps themselves, via deserted Jewish communities and synagogues, as well as the sites of the ghettos and deportation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The achievement of Gilbert's \u003ci\u003eHolocaust Journey\u003c\/i\u003e is to reduce to comprehensible, human terms the scale of the genocide that to many is still unimaginable'\u003c\/b\u003e - LITERARY REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Filled with short, well-informed and often heart-rending accounts of the fate of the Jews'\u003c\/b\u003e - TLS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHolocaust Journey\u003c\/i\u003e travels along the tracks of a history we would rather forget to the sites of wartime horror, and is also a moving excavation of the past'\u003c\/b\u003e - INDEPENDENT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849280803052,"sku":"9781399610902","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8477083482686.jpg?v=1759032478"},{"product_id":"the-first-world-war-by-sir-martin-gilbert-9781409102793","title":"The First World War","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was to be the war to end all wars and it began at 11.15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would end officially almost five years later. Unofficially, it has never ended: The horrors we live with today were born in the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt left millions—civilians and soldiers—maimed or dead. And it left us with new technologies of death: tanks, planes and submarines; reliable rapid-fire machine guns, poison gas and chemical warfare. It introduced us to unrestricted war on civilians and mistreatment of prisoners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost of all, it changed our world. In its wake, empires toppled, monarchies fell, whole populations lost their national identities as political systems and geographic boundaries realigned. Instabilities were institutionalised, enmities enshrined. Manners, mores, codes of behaviour, literature, education and class distinctions—all underwent a vast sea change. 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