Ordinary men, paperback/christopher r browning

The first UK publication of a widely admired study of a Nazi extermination squad, subtitled }Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland{.

Drawing on records and interviews of a large proportion of the unit, a chilling picture emerges of how easily ordinary men can be trained to perform acts of genocide and murder.

Finely focussed and stunningly powerful }New York Times{.