Unread and unopened!Bookburning is "in" these days. The "in" thing to deplore, that is. Unfortunately, there are enough instances of censorship in the contemporary world to justify real concern as well as fake. And there have been enough in history, including America's recent history. (??2021??)You would be well-advised, however, not to rely on the American "conscience media", with its ritual Banned Books Weeks and sporadic gush of speeches/readings/articles supposedly deploring all censorship, for the true tale of past and continuing suppression of books in America. From them, you might get ... View More...
Unread and unopened! (Hard to list as 'New' when it's 52 years old). Some slight scuffing. Wrinkle in upper corner of spine. See Photos. MEN AGAINST THE STATE first appeared in the spring of 1953. Within a matter of months it had received nearly fifty highly commendatory reviews in thirteen countries in seven languages. Few products of American scholarly research in our time have gained more widespread international respect in such a short time. This book brought back into view a tradition which almost disappeared between the beginning of the First World War and the end of the Second, the phil... View More...
Unread and unopened! A collection of studies on various aspects of the Second World War era which have been hailed as entertaining, informative, provocative and controversial, gathered together in a single volume for the first time. They deal with several matters during this great global conflict which have never been resolved. They have also been welcomed as long obscured views on issues which have returned to a degree of prominence again in the last decade. Included are penetrating accounts, scholarly but readable, of conscription, war crimes trials, "defense" spending, wartime propaganda, t... View More...
Unread and unopened! (Hard to list as 'New' when it's 45 years old). See photo. When history is written with a four inch brush, most of the experience of the species is left out. The preparation of majestic accounts which are concerned with squaring the past with the eternal verities and galactic- scaled movements as well as various categories of ethereal abstractions finds no use for several classes of jagged facts which would interrupt the serene flow of such tales, and give some inkling as to how complicated affairs can get, as well as indicating how perverse, obstreperous, ornery and marve... View More...
