Dan Diner: How the Jews of Palestine escaped extermination

In the introduction, Dan Diner called his book an "Anatomy of World War II" - a gross understatement.

Because it tells a lot more.

The war is over three quarters of a century - but it has still not cooled down.

If you look beyond the pacified Europe, you will come across the most lively legacies of the war again and again.

Diner traces its origins and consequences with the help of many examples.

The ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for example, has a lot to do with the fact that the British did not make a clear decision in favor of a Jewish state because - out of consideration for the Muslims in India - they did not want to anger the Muslim Arabs.