His third book was "A Terrible Revenge, The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944–1950", published in Germany in 1986, and in the United States in 1993 by Palgrave Macmillan under the title "The German Expellees". According to PhD candidate Robert Bard, this book "was, as Zayas says, written 'to generate interest in this hitherto ignored tragedy German ethnic expulsions and lead to a new respect for these forgotten victims and to more compassion and understanding for our neighbours.' De Zayas in his introduction states that the book originated in a 1981 'prime-time television broadcast in Germany' which dealt with the expulsions, and in which he took part."