Synopsis: |
Ian Baxter has written the definitive account of Rudolf Hoss, the Commandant of Auschwitz, the concentration camp where between 1,100,000 and 1,500,000 men, women and children were murdered by the Nazis. "The Commandant" reads with an urgency and moral commitment which belongs to the finest fiction. Ian Baxter has written the best conceivable chronicle on Hoss using the experiences of his victims, his friends and collaborators, and the memoirs of the commandant himself. Few people will put this book down without understanding Hoss and the pivotal role he played in the Holocaust. |