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Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack

Richard Ovenden

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#2867 of 3,809 books · #926 in History

Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize (2021).

An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital existence, Burning the Books shows how the preservation of knowledge is vital for the survival of civilization itself.

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ISBN-13
9781529378771
Genre
History
Topics
Destruction of libraries and archivesPreservation of knowledgeCensorship

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