It has long been argued that the Allies did little or nothing to rescue Europe's Jews. Arguing that this has been consistently misinterpreted, The Myth of Rescue states that few Jews who perished could have been saved by any action of the Allies. In his new introduction to the paperback edition, Willliam Rubinstein responds to the controversy caused by his challenging views, and considers further the question of bombing Auschwitz, which remains perhaps the most widely discussed alleged lost opportunity for saving Jews available to the Allies.

Arguing that the rescue of the Jewish people has been consistently misinterpreted, Rubinstein states that no Jews who perished in the Holocaust could have been saved by any action of the Western Allies. Rubinstein, who once believed that the democracies did nothing to save the Jews, has uncovered evidence that the opposite is true and explores the topic with a true historian's skill.