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Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction explores German writers' silence about a moment of mass destruction In the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German towns and cities. Six hundred thousand civilians died, and three and a half million homes were destroyed. When it has cast such a very dark shadow over his life and work, Sebald asks, how have so many writers allowed themselves to write it out of their experience and avoid articulating the ...

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On the Natural History of Destruction 2004, Modern Library, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780375756573

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 On The Natural History Of Destruction 2004, Penguin Books Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780140298000

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On the Natural History of Destruction 2004, Vintage Books Canada

ISBN-13: 9780676975307

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 On the Natural History of Destruction 2003, Random House (NY), New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780375504846

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On the Natural History of Destruction 2003, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780241141267

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 On the Natural History of Destruction 2003, Knopf Canada

ISBN-13: 9780676975291

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On the Natural History of Destruction

2004, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780375756573

On The Natural History Of Destruction

2004, Mass-market paperback

ISBN-13:

9780140298000

On the Natural History of Destruction

2004, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780676975307

On the Natural History of Destruction

2003, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780375504846

On the Natural History of Destruction

2003, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780241141267

On the Natural History of Destruction

2003, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780676975291

Books by Winfried Georg Sebald

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Jan 7, 2010

A truly important book

If ones wishes to understand the impact of WW II on THE GERMANS--and one should, whatever one's immediate reaction to that concept--then reading this book will present it in the sparest, most economical and almost beautiful prose. As one who came to know the country living there in the 1960's, I found the late Mr. Sebald to be the first person to articulate not so much what terrors the German civilian population had suffered, but how the inescapable recognition of their country's total guilt in launching the war had created a conspiracy of silence, even among the fellow victims. This book deserves that overworked word masterpiece.

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