Kristallnacht

Martin Gilbert’s extraordinary book, Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction is a book full of numbers, dates, names, and stories. He piles fact upon fact in an attempt convey some of the horror of the terrible night and day of November 9 and 10, 1938 that came to be known as Kristallnacht. At the same time he presents many eyewitness accounts that give an agonizing human face to the terror of Kristallnacht.