Description: 95% of Lithuania's more than 200,000 Jews were exterminated during the Holocaust. Why did this small Baltic state prove to be the most efficient killing field of all?
Brief description: Pritpal ('Prit') Buttar was educated at St John's College Oxford where he gained a BA in physiological sciences. From Oxford he went on to King's College Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry, London where he obtained his MBBS followed by the Royal College of General Practitioners, London, where he received his MRCGP. From 1987-1992 he was a Medical Officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps. On leaving the army he worked as a GP. Prit has written a number of books on the Eastern Front in both WW1 and WW2. He has amassed sales in the US and the UK of more than 150,000 copies with translations into Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian and Chinese.
Review Quotes: Engaging, potent and informative, this is another excellent work from Butter.', All About History Magazine, May 2023
They provide the light in an otherwise bleak, but important book.', The Armourer Magazine, July 2023 In Centuries will not Sufice, author Prit Buttar takes a respectful and sensitive look at this aspect of the holocaust, looking at the atrocities from the perspective of both the victims and perpetrators.', Family Tree Magazine, November 2023