

Do “evil” people exist?
Are they expressions of the culture from which they come?
Do their crimes help us understand the world in which they lived?
We sent it free to the Sunday Times, and they didn’t like it.
Now, we are offering it free to anyone who cares to read it.

We are planning to go to London for a few days at the start of March. The paperback edition of "A Visible Darkness" is about to be released. The real reason for going, however, is the huge antiques fair at Ardingley on March 1st and 2nd – if you’ve never been to this bonanza, you don’t know what you are missing. London is just 40 minutes away by train, so we will stay in town. That’s where all the bookshops are, the theatres, museums and restaurants.
We have just received pre-publications copies of “A Visible Darkness” in paperback, which is due for release in the United Kingdom on 4th March, 2010. As you can see from the photo at the bottom of the page, this is the third format to be published for the UK market by Faber & Faber – hardback (actually a large trade paperback), export edition, and now the paperback.

Until very recently, the Holocaust was quite a well kept secret. Even among historians. How could you possibly attempt to describe the horrors that were an integral part of the Nazi regime? And even more difficult, how could you begin to explain the cold statistical facts of genocide?