Randolph L. Braham
The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, Volume I.
Columbia University Press, 1981. 0231044968 xlii/594 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.25", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book exhibits very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright.  Dust jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"The first volume of "The Politics of Genocide" traces the history of the Jewish community in Hungary in the years immediately following World War I - a "Golden Era" when Hungary's Jews achieved a nearly commanding position in their country's economic and cultural life. Braham the illuminates their experience after 1932 when the anti-Semitic Gömbös regime came to power, and in the years that followed which saw a further swing to the right in Hungarian politics that foreshadowed the final destruction of the Jewish community. Following the Hungarian Jews' fate under the Teleki, Bárdossy and Kállay governments, Braham recounts the enactment of anti-Jewish laws, the creation of mass deportation plans and the labor service system, and the first massacres and atrocities. Then, with the arrival of the German occupation forces in 1944, Braham begins a comprehensive, region-by-region and town-by-town examination of the horrific, systematic destruction followed."