David Cesarani's Final Solution is an intelligent & thought-provoking short history of the Holocaust Not only does David Cesarani draw together & engage with the latest scholarly research making extensive use of previously untapped resources such as diaries & letters from within the ghettos & camps (many of them in Polish or Yiddish & therefore previously largely inaccessible to Anglo-American scholars) but by adopting a rigorously Judeocentric approach the whole narrative of the march to genocide & its aftermath the book presents a subtly different timeline which casts afresh the horror of the period & engenders a significant re-evaluation of the how & why Eschewing some of the more fevered theses about the guilt of the perpetrators (and indeed recasting how wide that net should be spread) David Cesarani's measured & skilful negotiation of a crowded field is as a result all the more devastating