Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII, Laurence Rees romance and an extraordinary exploration of

and an extraordinary exploration of the gradual mastering of an exacting

then himself

”—The New York Times Book Review On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago

and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France

and the demons of the Valley of the Shadow of Death

Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII, Laurence Rees romance and an extraordinary exploration ofHow could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp? Award winning documentary maker and historian Laurence Rees has spent nearly 20 years wrestling with these questions in the course of filming hundreds of interviews with people tested to the extreme during World War II. He has come face to