More than fifty years after their occurrence, the events of the Holocaust remain for some of their most dedicated students as morally and intellectually baffling, as unthinkable, as they were at their first rumouring. Reading the Holocaust challenges that bafflement and the demoralization that attends it. Searching, eloquent and elegantly written, Inga Clendinnens book is an uncompromising attempt to extract the comprehensible - the practical, human reality - from the unthinkable.