If this is a Woman

Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded through giant gates. Whipping and kicking them were scores of German women guards. Their destination was Ravensbrück, a concentration camp designed specifically for women by Heinrich Himmler, prime architect of the Nazi genocide. For decades the story of Ravensbrück was hidden behind the Iron Curtain and today is still little known. Using testimony unearthed since the end of the Cold War, and interviews with survivors who have never spoken before, Helm has ventured into the heart of the camp, demonstrating for the reader in riveting detail how easily and quickly the unthinkable horror evolved.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Helm, Helm Sarah
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9780349120034
• ISBN: 978-0-349-12003-4
• No. of pages: 848
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 195 mm x 40 mm
• Series: ABACUS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; Europe, HISTORY / Holocaust, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Women, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1940 to c 1949