سخت‌ترین ساعت آن‌ها: آزمایش مردم در مرزهای افراطی در جنگ جهانی دوم

How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp? Award-winning documentary maker and historian Laurence Rees has spent nearly 20 years wrestling with these questions in the course of filming hundreds of interviews with people tested to the extreme during World War II. He has come face-to-face with rapists, mass murderers, even cannibals, but he has also met courageous individuals who are an inspiration to us all. In Their Darkest Hour he presents 35 of his most electrifying encounters. "Laurence Rees has spent nearly 20 years meeting people who were tested to the extreme during World War II .... Here he presents 35 of his most electrifying encounters - from a Jewish woman given the chance to save ten fellow Jews from deportation and death, to a Japanese soldier so fanatical that he refused to surrender until 29 years after the end of the war"-- Book jacket Award-winning Writer And Filmmaker Laurence Rees Has Spent Nearly 20 Years Meeting People Who Were Tested To The Extreme During World War Ii. He Has Come Face-to-face With Rapists, Mass Murderers, Even Cannibals, But He Has Also Met Courageous Individuals Who Are An Inspiration To Us All. Laurence Rees. Includes Index. Laurence Rees presents 35 of his most electrifying encounters, from Estera Frenkiel, a young Jewish woman given the chance to save ten fellow Jews from deportation and death to Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier, so fanatical that he refused to surrender for 29 years after the end of the war.