Laurence Rees, educado en Solihull School y la Universidad de Oxford, es productor y director creativo en la BBC. Es autor y productor de series como World War II: Behind Closed Doors, War of the Century, Horror in the East o Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'. Ganó el British Book Award for History Book of the Year en 2006 por el bestseller internacional Auschwitz: Los nazis y la 'solución final' (Crítica, 2005). Otras de sus obras son Una guerra de exterminio (2006), Los verdugos y las víctimas (2008), A puerta cerrada (2009) y El holocausto asiático (2009), todas ellas publicadas por Crítica.

Laurence Rees, educated at Solihull School and the University of Oxford, is a producer and creative director at the BBC. He is the author and producer of series such as World War II: Behind Closed Doors, War of the Century, Horror in the East, and Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'. He won the British Book Award for History Book of the Year in 2006 for the international bestseller Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' (Crítica, 2005). Other works of his include A War of Extermination (2006), The Executioners and the Victims (2008), Behind Closed Doors (2009), and The Asian Holocaust (2009), all published by Crítica.