Libricide
Published in Praeger eBooks • Jan 1, 2003
NobleIDNI1P97W24R67S88
Authors:
Rebecca Knuth
Abstract
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings, declared German poet Heinrich Heine. This book identifies the regime-sponsored, ideologically driven, and systemic destruction of books and libraries in the 20th century that often served as a prelude or accompaniment to the massiv...