'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

Introduction

Prologue

One  The Approaching End

Two  What Was Known

Three' You Are Free': 12-16 April 1945

Four  The Plan

Five  Frustrations: 18-23 April 1945

Six  The Chaplain's Tale

Seven Reinforcements: Camp 1, 24-30 April 1945

Eight' Would We Mind?'

Nine  The Hospital: Camp 2, 21 April-21 May 1945

Ten  Burning the Huts

Eleven The'Holiday Camp'

Twelve'Our Northern Hosts'

Thirteen Divisions

Fourteen The Belsen Trial

Fifteen  Afterlives

Sixteen  Judgements

Appendix One: The Death Rate at Belsen

Appendix Two: External Evacuation from Belsen

Notes

Bibliography

Index