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W.G. Sebald's military classic, On the Natural History of Destruction, will now be available for the first time in audio!
On the Natural History of Destruction is W.G. Sebald's harrowing and precise investigation of one of the least examined "silences" of our time. In it, the acclaimed novelist examines the devastation of German cities by Allied bombardment, and the reasons for the astonishing absence of this unprecedented trauma from German history and culture.
This void in history is in part a repression of things - such as the death by fire of the city of Hamburg at the hands of the RAF - too terrible to bear. But rather than record the crises about them, writers sought to retrospectively justify their actions under the Nazis. For Sebald, this is an example of deliberate cultural amnesia; his analysis of its effects in and outside Germany has already provoked angry and painful debate.
Sebald's incomparable novels are rooted in meticulous observation; his essays are novelistic. They include his childhood recollections of the war that spurred his horror at the collective amnesia around him. There are moments of black humour and, throughout, the unmatched sensitivity of Sebald's intelligence. This book is a vital study of suffering and forgetting, of the morality hidden in artistic decisions, and of both compromised and genuine heroics.
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Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!"
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4 out of 5 stars
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
De: Sarah Bakewell
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Rites of Spring
- The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
- De: Modris Eksteins
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 94
Dazzling in its originality, Rites of Spring probes the origins, impact, and aftermath of World War I from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. "The Great War", as Modris Eksteins writes, "was the psychological turning point...for modernism as a whole. The urge to create and the urge to destroy had changed places."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- De Anonymous User en 11-17-17
De: Modris Eksteins
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Practicing History
- Selected Essays
- De: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 12 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
Master historian Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. This accessible introduction to the subject of history offers striking insights into America's past and present, trenchant observations on the international scene, and thoughtful pieces on the historian's role. Here is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime spent "practicing history".
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2 out of 5 stars
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Barbara Tuchman fan faced with reality
- De J. Whittle en 09-27-18
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Wasteland
- The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
- De: W. Scott Poole
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 305
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 268
In the early 20th century, World War I was the most devastating event humanity had yet experienced. New machines of war left tens of millions killed or wounded in the most grotesque of ways. The Great War remade the world's map, created new global powers, and brought forth some of the biggest problems still facing us today. But it also birthed a new art form: the horror film, made from the fears of a generation ruined by war. From Nosferatu to Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man, the touchstones of horror can all trace their roots to the bloodshed of the First World War.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An interesting take
- De CN en 07-30-19
De: W. Scott Poole
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Aftermath
- Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
- De: Harald Jähner, Shaun Whiteside - translator
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 367
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 313
How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more? This internationally acclaimed revelatory history of the transformational decade that followed World War II illustrates how Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors of the Holocaust - and features over 40 eye-opening black-and-white photographs and posters from the period.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Where are the photos?
- De Cassandra en 01-17-22
De: Harald Jähner, y otros
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- De: Clive James
- Narrado por: Clive James
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Charlie Chaplin, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, both public memoir and personal record - and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable and well narrated
- De Larbi en 05-18-08
De: Clive James
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Fracture
- Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938
- De: Philipp Blom
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 17 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism, and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell-shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it no longer recognized: The old order had collapsed, replaced by an age of machines. The world hurtled forward on gears and crankshafts, and terrifying new ideologies arose from the wreckage of past belief.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lots of good trivia information
- De Jean en 07-23-15
De: Philipp Blom
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I Am Dynamite!
- A Life of Nietzsche
- De: Sue Prideaux
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 346
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 303
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 301
Nietzsche wrote that all philosophy is autobiographical, and in this vividly compelling, myth-shattering biography, Sue Prideaux brings listeners into the world of this brilliant, eccentric, and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events and people that shaped his life and work. I Am Dynamite! is the essential biography for anyone seeking to understand history's most misunderstood philosopher.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating; tragic
- De Cineaste21 en 12-30-18
De: Sue Prideaux
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Known and Strange Things
- Essays
- De: Teju Cole
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
With this collection of more than 50 pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. Minute after minute, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book that Teaches and Shares
- De Carolyn J. en 10-08-17
De: Teju Cole
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Judgment Before Nuremberg
- The Holocaust in the Ukraine and the First Nazi War Crimes Trial
- De: Greg Dawson
- Narrado por: Gary Dikeos
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 187
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 173
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 174
When people think of the Holocaust, they think of Auschwitz, of Dachau; and when they think of justice for this terrible chapter in history, they think of Nuremberg. Not of Russia or the Ukraine, and certainly not a town called Kharkov. But in reality, the first war-crimes trial against the Nazis was in this idyllic, peaceful Ukrainian city, which is fitting, because it is also where the Holocaust actually began.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Don’t Insult Your Audience
- De Michael Richards en 01-21-22
De: Greg Dawson
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Notes of a Native Son
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,336
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,148
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,144
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of Black life and Black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful Essayist
- De Andre en 09-30-16
De: James Baldwin
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William Blake vs the World
- De: John Higgs
- Narrado por: John Higgs
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 87
A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy, and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book ever
- De idamae en 11-04-22
De: John Higgs
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Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
- De: Alexandra Popoff
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 15 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
If Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag. But Life and Fate was seized by the Russian KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What? Nazism = communism?
- De James Messelbeck en 06-25-19
De: Alexandra Popoff
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- De: William Egginton
- Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from studying too many novels of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That story, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Interesting and Informative, but Poorly Read
- De LCorSMT en 06-21-23
De: William Egginton
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Nothing Ever Dies
- Vietnam and the Memory of War
- De: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 75
Nothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the best-selling novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both the Americans and the Vietnamese.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good, probably should be read and not listened to via audible for the best experience.
- De Tanya en 10-24-16
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Pogrom
- Kishinev and the Tilt of History
- De: Steven J. Zipperstein
- Narrado por: Barry Abrams
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it was "nothing less than a prototype for the Holocaust itself." In three days of violence, 49 Jews were killed and 600 raped or wounded, while more than 1,000 Jewish-owned houses and stores were ransacked and destroyed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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good analysis of the 1903 event
- De John Newquist en 08-10-19
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Existentialism and Excess
- The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre
- De: Gary Cox
- Narrado por: Matt Addis
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the undisputed giants of 20th-century philosophy. His intellectual writings popularizing existentialism, combined with his creative and artistic flair, have made him a legend of French thought. His tumultuous personal life - so inextricably bound up with his philosophical thinking - is a fascinating tale of love and lust, drug abuse, high-profile fallings-out and political and cultural rebellion.
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2 out of 5 stars
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a capitalista biography of Sartre
- De Anonymous User en 01-24-20
De: Gary Cox
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Metaphysical Animals
- How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
- De: Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachae Wiseman
- Narrado por: Alex Dunmore
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In Metaphysical Animals, a pioneering group biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a compelling alternative. In the mid-twentieth century Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch were philosophy students at Oxford when most male undergraduates and many tutors were conscripted away to fight in the Second World War. Together, these young women, all friends, developed a philosophy that could respond to the war’s darkest revelations.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Book about nothing
- De Gerardo Naranjo Gonzalez en 06-14-22
De: Clare Mac Cumhaill, y otros
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- 12-20-24
After a few rereading and relistenings
That I listen to it and read it again and again is proof enough. I just saw that after an early reading I’d given it only 4 stars. That must have been when I kept the fifth star unused for future literary achievements. Hereby corrected. Deserves a careful listen. And a careful reading.
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