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The Invasion Handbook
Tom Paulin
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Description for The Invasion Handbook
Paperback. Intends to recount the origins of the Second World War. This volume opens with the Versailles Peace Treaty of 1919, which excluded Germany from the community of nations, and with the answering but ill-fated attempt of the Locarno Treaties of 1925 to restore the torn fabric of Europe. It also evokes Weimar culture, and Hitler's rise to power. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
In The Invasion Handbook Tom Paulin sets out to recount the origins of the Second World War. The result is a triumph of technique, a simultaneous vision which proceeds by quotation and collage, catalogue and caption, prose as well as verse - a myriad staging of historical realities through the poet's intense and bitter scrutiny of the particulars of time and place.
The volume opens with the Versailles Peace Treaty of 1919, which excluded Germany from the community of nations, and with the answering but ill-fated attempt of the Locarno Treaties of 1925 to restore the torn fabric of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571218585
SKU
V9780571218585
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99-51
About Tom Paulin
Tom Paulin grew up in Belfast and now lives in Oxford, where he is Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, University of Oxford. He has published nine collections of poetry as well as a Selected Poems 1972-1990, two major anthologies, two versions of Greek drama, and several critical works, including The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style and, Crusoe's Secret: ... Read more
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