'Scrupulously balanced and sensitive...it will serve as a fitting tributeand a guide to future generations about how best to remember Belsen.'David Cesarani. GUARDIAN
When British troops entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, theyuncovered scenes of horror and depravity that shocked the world. But they alsoconfronted a terrible challenge - inside the camp were some 60,000 people, sufferingfrom typhus, starvation and dysentery, who would die unless they received immediatemedical attention. After Daybreak is the story of the army stretcher-bearers andambulance drivers, medical students and relief workers who attempted to save theinmates of Belsen with only the most primitive drugs and facilities available.
'in his excellent and lucid account, Shephard fully makes his case thatthe aftermath of the liberation of Belsen was an episode in which theBritish can take urlde.' Frank McLynn. INDEPENDENT