The Gestapo A History of Horror Author:Jacques Delarue trans from the French by Mervyn Savill Jacques Delarue was the Winner of the Prix de la Resistance — "This book won't let the world forget...details the background of this terror organization and its formation, the personalities who created it - the Goerings, the Himmlers, the Heydrichs - and how each added to its refinement as an instrument of torture." -NY Daily News — "Jacques Delar... more »ue breaks new ground...activities are described in considerably greater detail than any previous work...He has given us a very readable book on a horrible subject." -NY Times
Jacques Delarue - a member of the Direction de la Surete Nationale in Paris - was a Resistance fighter during WWII. Later, in charge of the liquidation of Occupation records, he interview numerous top ex-Gestapo agents and combed published and unpublished sources for this "stark example of man's appalling inhumanity to man." Kiplinger Report« less