The instant popularity ofthediaryofAnneFrank in the postwar years suggests an intuitive grasp, on the part of its readers, of what made their war different from previous wars.
Five more pages oftheDiaryofAnneFrank - the Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam house during World War II - have been found by researchers in the Netherlands.
In a chapter on the Holocaust he criticises American bowdlerisations, for example, ofAnne Frank's diary, but says little about its effect on the wider culture.