How long does it take to read The Holocaust?
The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert takes about 17 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 17 hours 35 minutes
A long haul
First published 1978. 959 pages, about 263,725 words.
36 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 29 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Sets the scene with a brief history of anti-Semitism prior to Hitler, and documents the horrors of the Holocaust from 1933 onward, in an incisive, interpretive account of the genocide of World War II.
Subjects: Maps, Jews in Germany, Pictorial works, Joden, Holocaust, Persécutions
