Harward, Grant Thomas: Romania’s Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust. Editura Cornell Univeristy Press, New York, 2021.

Romania's Holy War rights the widespread myth that Romania was a reluctant member of the Axis during World War II. In correcting this fallacy, Grant T. Harward shows that, of an estimated 300,000 Jews who perished in Romania and Romanian-occupied Ukraine, more than 64,000 were, in fact, killed by Romanian soldiers. Moreover, the Romanian Army conducted a brutal campaign in German-occupied Ukraine, resulting in the deaths of thousands of Soviet prisoners of war, partisans, and civilians. Investigating why Romanian soldiers fought and committed such atrocities, Harward argues that strong ideology – a cocktail of nationalism, religion, antisemitism, and anticommunism – undergirded their motivation. 

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