Jonathan Steinberg

Massacre of the innocents

The bloodbath involving former friends and neighbours in the East European border town in 1941 makes this atrocity especially shocking, says Omer Bartov

issue 20 January 2018

  • Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town called Buczacz

    Omer Bartov

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 480

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