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Author : Albert Camus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (777 download)
Download or read book Neither Victims Nor Executioners written by Albert Camus and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556357710
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)
Download or read book Neither Victims nor Executioners written by Albert Camus and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endorsements: "The reissue of Camus' seminal essay, 'Neither Victims nor Executioners, ' could hardly be more timely. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the hideous march to oblivion goes on apace. America is ironically reversing the ethic proposed by Camus' title. American adventuring, playing the part of omnipotent executioner, is creating multitudes of victims. No search is undertaken for a 'third way.' Indeed, were the Camus thesis proposed, it would evoke only wide-eyed innocent arrogance. Kennedy and Klotz-Chamberlin have dedicated a lifetime to the 'third way' commended by Camus. Our gratitude to our mentors for a prescient, timely introduction." --Fr. Daniel Berrigan, SJ "Pacifists are not looking for a Utopian outlook nor unrealistic expectations. Many said, 'South Africa will not change.' But it did. Others looked at Northern Ireland and, it took years, but it also changed. The Soviet Union changed. The Middle East will change but not through violence or murder. We still think of ourselves within borders, protecting ourselves from others, Europe took its borders away and they are better. South, Central, and North America should take away their borders, as well as people in the Middle East. . . . We should build a culture of nonviolence through an understanding of human rights without regard to race, religion, and nationality." --Mubarak Awad, founder of Nonviolence International "If we spontaneously approve of nuclear terrorism, if we become apologists for the uninhibited use of naked power, we are thinking like Communists, we are behaving like Nazis, and we are well on the way to becoming either one or the other. In that event we had better face the fact that we are destroying our own Christian heritage." --Thomas Merton Author Biography: Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher and one of the principal luminaries (with Jean-Paul Sartre) of existentialism. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
Author : Albert Camus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816492381
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Neither Victims Nor Executioners written by Albert Camus and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307426238
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Hitler's Willing Executioners written by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular. Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen takes us into the killing fields where Germans voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly, and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims. From mobile killing units, to the camps, to the death marches, Goldhagen shows how ordinary Germans, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterable evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion. "Hitler's Willing Executioner's is an original, indeed brilliant contribution to the...literature on the Holocaust."--New York Review of Books "The most important book ever published about the Holocaust...Eloquently written, meticulously documented, impassioned...A model of moral and scholarly integrity."--Philadelphia Inquirer
Author : Simone Malacrida
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3755439271
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (554 download)
Download or read book Victims and Executioners written by Simone Malacrida and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Victims and Executioners" sketches the tale of two generations that witnessed the inexorable change of Italy and the World. Starting from the end of World War II and the Resistance movement, the Borgonovo family participates in the post-war reconstruction, the economic boom, and the turbulent and wonderful events of the 1960s, until their conclusion in the following decade, increasingly sharpening the clash between the different generations and the different social parties. An unspeakable secret will mark the development of their affairs, going on to profoundly alter their existences. It will be up to the next generation to take provisional stock, having brought to the surface a part of the past truths.
Author : Geoffrey Abbott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312366568
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (665 download)
Download or read book What a Way to Go written by Geoffrey Abbott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this wickedly humorous book, Geoffrey Abbott describes the effectiveness of instruments of torture and reveals the macabre origins of familiar phrases such as 'gone west' or 'drawn a blank'. Covering everything from the preparation of the victim to the disposal of the body 'What a Way to Go' is everything you ever wanted to know about the ultimate penalty--and a lot you never thought to ask."--Publisher's description
Author : Joel F. Harrington
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448129370
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Faithful Executioner written by Joel F. Harrington and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist. Following in his father’s footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner’s trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and forty-five years later, he retired to focus his attentions on running the large medical practice that he had always viewed as his true vocation. Through examination of Frantz’s exceptional and often overlooked record, Joel F. Harrington delves deep into a world of human cruelty, tragedy and injustice. At the same time, he poses a fascinating question: could a man who routinely practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate – even progressive? The Faithful Executioner is the biography of an ordinary man struggling to overcome an unjust family curse; it is also a remarkable panorama of a Europe poised on the cusp of modernity, a world with startling parallels to our own.
Author : George Mann
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765327767
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
Download or read book The Executioner's Heart written by George Mann and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth Newbury & Hobbes steampunk mystery pits the detectives against the most frightening villainess England has yet seen
Author : Joel F. Harrington
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813938716
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book The Executioner's Journal written by Joel F. Harrington and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a career lasting nearly half a century, Meister Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) personally put to death 392 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more. The remarkable number of victims, as well as the officially sanctioned context in which they suffered at Schmidt’s hands, was the story of Joel Harrington’s much-discussed book The Faithful Executioner. The foundation of that celebrated work was Schmidt's own journal--notable not only for the shocking story it told but, in an age when people rarely kept diaries, for its mere existence. Available now in Harrington’s new translation, this fascinating document provides the modern reader with a rare firsthand perspective on the thoughts and experiences of an executioner who routinely carried out acts of state brutality yet remained a revered member of the local community, widely respected for his piety, steadfastness, and popular healing. Based on a long-lost manuscript thought to be the most faithful to the original journal, this modern English translation is fully annotated and includes an introduction providing historical context as well as a biographical portrait of Schmidt himself. The executioner appears to us not as the frightening brute we might expect but as a surprisingly thoughtful, complex person with a unique voice, and in these pages his world emerges as vivid and unforgettable. Studies in Early Modern German History
Author : James Berry
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book My Experiences as an Executioner written by James Berry and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Experiences as an Executioner" by James Berry presents a chilling and unflinchingly honest account of Berry's time as an executioner, providing readers with a gripping glimpse into the dark and complex world of capital punishment. Through his candid revelations and introspective reflections, Berry navigates the moral and ethical dilemmas he faced in his role, shedding light on the profound impact it had on his psyche. His narrative unearths the haunting realities of life and death decisions, offering readers a unique perspective on the complexities of justice, morality, and the weight of one's actions. As readers delve into Berry's experiences, they are confronted with thought-provoking questions about the nature of punishment, the human capacity for empathy, and the long-lasting emotional scars left by his grim profession. This book serves as a poignant exploration of the human condition and the somber consequences of society's pursuit of justice.
Author : Norman Mailer
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780446345217
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (452 download)
Download or read book The Executioner's Song written by Norman Mailer and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 1980 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reconstruction of the crime and fate of Gary Gilmore, the convicted murderer who sought his own execution in Utah where he was imprisoned, is based on taped interviews with relatives, friends, lawyers, and law-enforcement officials
Author : Simon Levis Sullam
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691209200
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Italian Executioners written by Simon Levis Sullam and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revisionist history of Italy's role in the Holocaust, the author presents an account of how ordinary Italians actively participated in the deportation of Italy's Jews between 1943 and 1945, when Mussolini's collaborationist republic was under German occupation
Author : Debarati Sanyal
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823265501
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Memory and Complicity written by Debarati Sanyal and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism. These works produced what Debarati Sanyal calls a “memory-in-complicity” attuned to the gray zones that implicate different regimes of violence across history as well as those of different subject positions such as victim, perpetrator, witness, and reader/spectator. Examining a range of works from Albert Camus, Primo Levi, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Paul Sartre to Jonathan Littell, Assia Djebar, Giorgio Agamben, and Boualem Sansal, Memory and Complicity develops an inquiry into the political force and ethical dangers of such implications, contrasting them with contemporary models for thinking about trauma and violence and offering an extended meditation on the role of aesthetic form, especially allegory, within acts of transhistorical remembrance. What are the political benefits and ethical risks of invoking the memory of one history in order to address another? What is the role of complicity in making these connections? How does complicity, rather than affect based discourses of trauma, shame and melancholy, open a critical engagement with the violence of history? What is it about literature and film that have made them such powerful vehicles for this kind of connective memory work? As it offers new readings of some of the most celebrated and controversial novelists, filmmakers, and playwrights from the French-speaking world, Memory and Complicity addresses these questions in order to reframe the way we think about historical memory and its political uses today.
Author : Franz Schmidt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1629149764
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (291 download)
Download or read book A Hangman's Diary written by Franz Schmidt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1573 to 1617, Master Franz Schmidt was the executioner for the towns of Bamberg and Nuremberg. During that span, he personally executed more than 350 people while keeping a journal throughout his career. A Hangman’s Diary is not only a collection of detailed writings by Schmidt about his work, but also an account of criminal procedure in Germany during the Middle Ages. With analysis and explanation, editor Albrecht Keller and translators C. Calvert and A. W. Gruner have put together a masterful tome that sets the scene of execution day and puts you in Master Franz Schmidt’s shoes as he does his duty for his country. Originally published more than eighty years ago, A Hangman’s Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Schmidt’s executions, which include hangings, beheadings, and other methods of murder, as well as explanations of each crime and the reason for the punishment. An incredible classic, A Hangman’s Diary is more than a history lesson; it shows the true anarchy that inhabited our world only a few hundred years ago. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Christopher Hale
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752463934
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Hitler's Foreign Executioners written by Christopher Hale and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hitler's Foreign Executioners, Heinrich Himmler's secret master plan for Europe is revealed: an SS empire that would have no place for either the Nazi Party or Adolf Hitler. His astonishingly ambitious plan depended on the recruitment of tens of thousands of 'Germanic' peoples from every corner of Europe, and even parts of Asia, to build an 'SS Europa'. This revised and fully updated book, researched in archives all over Europe and using first-hand testimony, exposes Europe's dirty secret: nearly half a million Europeans and more than a million Soviet citizens enlisted in the armed forces of the Third Reich to fight a deadly crusade against a mythic foe, Jewish Bolshevism. Even today, some apologists claim that these foreign SS volunteers were merely soldiers 'like any other' and fought a decent war against Stalin's Red Army. Historian Christopher Hale demonstrates conclusively that these surprisingly common views are mistaken. By taking part in Himmler's murderous master plan, these foreign executioners hoped to prove that they were worthy of joining his future 'SS Europa'. But as the Reich collapsed in 1944, Himmler's monstrous scheme led to bitter confrontations with Hitler – and to the downfall of the man once known as 'loyal Heinrich'.
Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780060528423
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (284 download)
Download or read book A People's History of the United States written by Howard Zinn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.
Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Requiem for a Nun written by William Faulkner and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Requiem for a Nun" by William Faulkner. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
