Burning the books a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge
Opening with the notorious bonfires of "un-German" and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, Burning the Books takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the fight against all the odds to preserve it. Richard Ovenden, d...
| Main Author: | Ovenden, Richard (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First Harvard University Press edition. |
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