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A knife adorned with a swastika and an eagle's head ... As a young
boy, Joseph Pearson was terrified of the weapon hanging from a hook
in his grandfather's basement, a trophy seized from the enemy in
battle. When he later inherited the knife, he unlocked a story far
more unsettling than he could ever have imagined. By then a writer
and cultural historian living in Berlin, Joseph found himself drawn
to other objects from the Nazi era: a pocket diary, a recipe book,
a double bass and a cotton pouch. Although the past remains a
painful subject in Germany, he embarked on a journey to illuminate
their stories before they disappeared from living memory. A
historical detective story and an enthralling account of one
historian's search for answers, My Grandfather's Knife is at once a
poignant meditation on memory and a unique addition to our
understanding of Nazi Germany.
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Berlin (Paperback)
Joseph Pearson
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R500
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Discovery Miles 4 090
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Berlin is a party in a graveyard. It is Europe's youth capital, and
its guilty war conscience. It is a disputed construction site,
built on the ruins of regimes. Today's diversity - refugees,
immigrants, arty expats, East and West - emerges from a history of
violence. Berlin is as cutting-edge and contemporary as it is wary
of its extreme past. Berlin is a comprehensive short history and
portrait of the German capital today. The story of Berlin's
vagaries over nine centuries - from a dry place in a bog to the
control centre of modern Europe - is expertly portrayed by
historian Joseph Pearson. The dynamic present is a palimpsest on
this unsettling past. A long-time flaneur of Berlin's streets,
Pearson explores how the city's history is visible today in
bombsites, museums and industrial club spaces (and a lake hosting a
man-nibbling monster). In this book, we find that elements of the
city that for some can be unnerving - its emptiness, its
provincialism, its ramshackle industrial eclecticism, its sexual
freedoms, its confrontation with a murderous past - are precisely
what give the city its charge.Pearson poses provocative questions
as he reveals the city's many layers and varied neighbourhoods. He
argues, ultimately, that Berlin's centrality in European and
cultural affairs is only just beginning to be felt.
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Cancer (Paperback)
Joseph Pearson
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R594
Discovery Miles 5 940
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Cancer (Hardcover)
Joseph Pearson
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R908
Discovery Miles 9 080
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
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Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks,
notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this
work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of
our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's
literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of
thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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