The book is well written and it tells the story of the camp liberation well but it does as a book of this nature should and it lets the photographs tell the story. The chapters are done well too and I liked how the book was laid out with the different focus being on four main sections. The book has a listing of the guards at the camp and their roles, as well as what happened and any sentences given to those that were prosecuted.

It was not only the photos of the dead and dying that affected me, the contrast between the photos of the laughing SS guards, both male and female compared to how the British troops found the camp is horrendous.

This was a book that made me cry and it will stay with me for a long time but I am glad that I read it, for me it is necessary reading and something we should never forget happened and it is a book that I would recommend too – it is 5 stars from me

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Donnas Book Blog

This provides a shocking insight into the brutal regime that the Belsen camp was part of. The story is told with a great many rare and previously unpublished images. This is a terrible story that should be told and told again as graphically as possible, that it may not happen again.

Firetrench

Not an easy read, but I believe a necessary one to gain an holistic understanding of the Second World War.

British Military History

Hard-hitting and doesn't hold back.

War History Online

Ian Baxter has compiled a horrific but necessary record of Belsen and its liberation., and he has let many of the pictures speak for themselves. This is the sort of book that is necessary today to remind people what happened and remind us how easily it could happen again. This is a testament to those murdered and the reasons why we should never forget.

Paul Diggett