Caroline Moorehead

The unimaginable horrors confronting the Allies in 1945

As some 45,000 Nazi camps came to light, Allied soldiers were ordered to look closely, so as to understand what they were fighting against

A British soldier at Belsen in 1945. As the camps were liberated, the Allied forces were ordered to look closely, so as to understand what it was they were fighting against. [Getty Images]
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  • 1945: Victory in the West

    Peter Caddick-Adams

    Hutchinson Heinemann, pp. 688, £30

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