"Memoir by the greatest writer to have been a survivor of the camps. He wrote extraordinary books on a variety of other subjects but this is the one to read first."
"Autobiography of the most influential commandant of the most important of the camps. Not totally trustworthy on the facts, but fascinating about the writer's mentality."
"Along with the same author's 'Coming of the Third Reich', the most scrupulous history so far of how Nazi Germany happened and what it was like to live there. Part 2 of a projected three-part series."
"Brave account of the 1961 trial of one of the architects of the extermination policy. Properly unsettling in its implications; a warning to history, all right."