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The Invasion Handbook
Tom Paulin
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Description for The Invasion Handbook
hardcover. The first instalment of Tom Paulin's poem about World War II. Affirming the struggle and memory of a generation upon whom the doors of living memory are now closing, it looks at the relation of art to war and to questions of national identity, the search for peace and for a shared civic culture. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 341. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 'First edition' label on front dw, showing light shelf wear. Price sticker inside front flap, otherwise as new
The Invasion Handbook is the first instalment of Tom Paulin's ambitious poem about the Second World War, from its origins to the German and Japanese surrenders in 1945. Conceived in several volumes, each book is independent but contributes to an evolving whole, an epic in cento form. The Invasion Handbook 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 evokes Weimar culture, Hitler's rise to power, the beginnings of the persecution of ... Read more
The Invasion Handbook is the first instalment of Tom Paulin's ambitious poem about the Second World War, from its origins to the German and Japanese surrenders in 1945. Conceived in several volumes, each book is independent but contributes to an evolving whole, an epic in cento form. The Invasion Handbook 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 evokes Weimar culture, Hitler's rise to power, the beginnings of the persecution of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571209156
SKU
KSG0031169
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About Tom Paulin
Tom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast, and was educated at the universities of Hull and 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, most ... Read more
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