Jacques Sémelin is Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science at Sciences Po, CERI, CNRS, Paris, focusing on the Holocaust and mass violence, as well as civil resistance and rescue. He is the author of the classic 'Unarmed Against Hitler: Civilian Resistance in Europe, 1939–1945', and 'Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide'.

'may well prove to be a landmark in the historiography of the subject . . . well-researched and cogently argued'

Jacques Sémelin is Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science at Sciences Po, CERI, CNRS, Paris, focusing on the Holocaust and mass violence, as well as civil resistance and rescue. He is the author of the classic 'Unarmed Against Hitler: Civilian Resistance in Europe, 1939–1945', and 'Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide'.

'may well prove to be a landmark in the historiography of the subject . . . well-researched and cogently argued'

Jacques Sémelin is Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science at Sciences Po, CERI, CNRS, Paris, focusing on the Holocaust and mass violence, as well as civil resistance and rescue. He is the author of the classic 'Unarmed Against Hitler: Civilian Resistance in Europe, 1939–1945', and 'Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide'.

'may well prove to be a landmark in the historiography of the subject . . . well-researched and cogently argued'