An astonishing act of investigation and documentation. In the face of lies, denial and massive indifference, Bikont has established exactly what happened ... The result is a terrifying and necessary book, unsparing in its detail, but deeply heartening as an act of historical reclamation.
Julian Barnes
Scrupulously objective and profoundly personal.
Kate Atkinson, Books ... Read moreof the Year, Wall Street Journal
A powerful and important study of the poisonous effects of racism and hatred within a community.
Guardian
A masterpiece of historical journalism ... A must read for anyone interested in the Holocaust and its aftermath.
Jan T. Gross
A hauntingly plausible contemporary history, tactfully delivering truths that we might all do well to contemplate.
Timothy Snyder, author of Black Earth
Humane, measured and painstakingly researched ... It is a hard-won testament to the importance of historical truth.
Daily Mail 'Must Reads'
Beautifully written, devastating and very important.
Louis Begley
The New York Times
One of the most important and most dramatic books of the last decade.
Ryszard Kapuscinski Magisterial... meticulous in its procedures, absolute in its commitment to truth. Bikont's book is a book about forgetting, about the pollution of memory, about the conflict between the easy, convenient truth and the awkward, harder truth. It is a work that grows from its journalistic manner and origins into the most powerful writing of necessary history.
The New York Review of Books
The Crime and the Silence deserves to be read by everyone interested in the fraught politics of apology and the ongoing struggle of nations and communities to ascertain and accept difficult historical truths.
Lawrence Douglas
Irish Times
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