Author:Albert Camus
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Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.
Another delightful tale sieved from the flotsam of African military history from a writer who is fast creating a niche of his own
—— ArenaFoden has brought to life one of the strangest episodes of the first world war'... a real romp through the desert of darkness and extremely funny
—— Sunday TimesGiles Foden writes with wit ... give it a read
—— Literary ReviewBased on fact and meticulously researched, it is a moving novel. Robert Hicks is a superb storyteller.
—— Choice'A sleeping giant'
—— USA TodayThis 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.
—— ChoiceNicholas 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 MailChildren 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