Human Smoke
At a time when the West seems ever more eager to call on military aggression as a means of securing international peace, Nicholson Baker's provocative narrative exploring the political misjudgements and personal biases that gave birth to the terrifying consequences of the Second World War could not be more pertinent. With original and controversial insights brought about by meticulous research, Human Smokere-evaluates the political turning points that led up to war and in so doing challenges some of the treasured myths we hold about how war came about and how atrocities like the Holocaust were able to happen. Baker reminds us, for instance, n…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84737-507-0
- EAN: 9781847375070
- Produktnummer: 14337797
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster Uk
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 576 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
Über den Autor
Nicholson Baker is the author of nine novels and four works of nonfiction, including Double Fold, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, and House of Holes, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in Maine with his family.
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