Inside the Vicious Heart : Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps

Inside the Vicious Heart captures the shock of the discovery, telling the story of the camp liberations in the words of Generals Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley; editor Joseph Pulitzer; photographer Margaret Bourke-White; and numerous American GIs who opened the gates, buried the dead, and desperately tried to save those they found alive.

Robert H. Abzug is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin, and the author of
assionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform.