While Six Million Died
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Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In one of the most damning indictments of wartime moral failure ever committed to print, While Six Million Died chronicles the systematic indifference of the United States government to the annihilation of European Jewry during the Second World War. Arthur D. Morse, drawing on declassified State Department cables, diplomatic correspondence, and first-hand testimonies, presents a meticulous and devastating account of how American bureaucrats, politicians, and institutions actively suppressed intelligence about the Holocaust, stalled refugee rescue efforts, and prioritised political convenience over six million human lives. The narrative strips away the comfortable myth of ignorance, arguing with cold precision that the machinery of inaction was as deliberate as it was catastrophic. Morse's investigative prose carries the unflinching authority of a seasoned journalist, and his work stands as a landmark text in Holocaust historiography, sitting alongside the foundational writings of Raul Hilberg and David Wyman. The book does not merely document failure — it indicts a culture of antisemitism and bureaucratic cowardice that reached the highest offices of power. Decades after its initial publication, While Six Million Died retains its power to unsettle, challenge, and demand of its reader an uncomfortable question: when is silence complicity?
Author: Arthur D. Morse
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Secker & Warburg
Genre: WW2
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In one of the most damning indictments of wartime moral failure ever committed to print, While Six Million Died chronicles the systematic indifference of the United States government to the annihilation of European Jewry during the Second World War. Arthur D. Morse, drawing on declassified State Department cables, diplomatic correspondence, and first-hand testimonies, presents a meticulous and devastating account of how American bureaucrats, politicians, and institutions actively suppressed intelligence about the Holocaust, stalled refugee rescue efforts, and prioritised political convenience over six million human lives. The narrative strips away the comfortable myth of ignorance, arguing with cold precision that the machinery of inaction was as deliberate as it was catastrophic. Morse's investigative prose carries the unflinching authority of a seasoned journalist, and his work stands as a landmark text in Holocaust historiography, sitting alongside the foundational writings of Raul Hilberg and David Wyman. The book does not merely document failure — it indicts a culture of antisemitism and bureaucratic cowardice that reached the highest offices of power. Decades after its initial publication, While Six Million Died retains its power to unsettle, challenge, and demand of its reader an uncomfortable question: when is silence complicity?