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How long does it take to read The Scourge of the Swastika?

Russell of Liverpool, Edward Frederick Langley Russell Baron

The Scourge of the Swastika by Russell of Liverpool, Edward Frederick Langley Russell Baron takes about 4 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 45 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1954. 259 pages, about 71,225 words.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 7 hours 55 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 45 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 58 minutes

The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The most frightening element of this book is the fact that some people in authority felt the truth about the extermination of 13 million people in the labor camps and gas chanbers of the Nazis was too horrific to reveal to the general public. Lord Russel had to retire to be free to write the book.

Subjects: Atrocities, War crimes, History

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