Wallace, Max

"Early in the morning of November 26, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz heard a deafening explosion. Emerging from their barracks, they witnessed the crematoria--part of the largest killing machine in human history--come crashing down. Most assumed they had fallen victim to inmate sabotage and thousands gave a silent cheer. However, the Final Solution's most efficient murder apparatus had not been felled by Jews, but rather by the ruthless architect of mass genocide, SS chief Heinrich Himmler--an edict that has puzzled historians for more than six decades"--Provided by publisher.

The authors continue to examine the death of rock star Kurt Cobain in 1994 centering on new forensic evidence and case tapes made by private detective Tom Grant and centers the investigation on Cobain's wife at the time, Courtney Love.