How long does it take to read The Years of Extermination, 1939–1945?
The Years of Extermination, 1939–1945 by Saul Friedländer takes about 16 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 26 minutes
A long haul
First published 2007. 896 pages, about 246,400 words.
33 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 27 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews depended upon many factors, including the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, and the passivity of the populations, primarily of their political and spiritual elites. Necessary also was the victims' willingness to submit, often with the hope of surviving long enough to escape the German vise. The Years of Extermination, the completion of Saul Friedlander's major historical opus on Nazi Germany and the Jews, explores the convergence of the various aspects of this most systematic and sustained of modern genocides. In this unparalleled work — based on a vast array of documents and an overwhelming choir of voices from diaries, letters, and memoirs — the history of the Holocaust has found its definitive representation.
Subjects: History, Nonfiction, Antisemitism, Ethnic relations, Jews, Persecutions
