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On Suicide
On Suicide
Oct 30, 2024 3:34 AM

Author:David Hume

On Suicide

One of the most important thinkers ever to write in English, the Empiricist David Hume liberated philosophy from the superstitious constraints of religion; here, he argues that all are free to choose between life and death, considers the nature of personal taste and succinctly criticises common philosophies of the time.

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Deeply impressive ... uplifting to read

—— Margaret Forster

As harrowing as any story from any war

—— Daily Mirror

Successfully restores a human dimension to that epic slaughter

—— Mail on Sunday

A moving vignette about [the war's] tragic price for one family

—— Max Hastings , Sunday Times

A moving testament to the bravery and sacrifice of one British family

—— Daily Mail

This remarkable debut novel has an unflinching eye for detail and is at once a meditation on the futility of war and a paen to the power of he human spirit.

—— Choice

Nicholas Stargardt's compelling new book tells exactly what was happening to the children of Europe who had been living under the Nazi regime...Stargardt's is, indeed, a terrible story: it is an account of the endless tramp of the innocents across Europe, a saga of cruelty, starvation, separation, loss and abject misery with lives without number ending in death

—— Juliet Gardiner , Daily Mail

Children are history's forgotten people; amidst the sound and fury of battle, as commanders decide the fate of empires, they are never seen. Yet as Nicholas Stargardt reveals in his heart-rending account of children's lives under the Nazis, to ignore them is to leave history half-written. This is an excellent book and it tells a terrible story... As Stargardt so eloquently reminds us, the tragedy is that children were part of the equation and suffered accordingly

—— Trevor Royle , Sunday Herald

'Nicholas Stargardt evokes the individual voices of children under Nazi rule. In re-creating their wartime experiences, he has produced a challenging new historical interpretation of the Second World War

—— History Today
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