Word: archipelago
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dictators have always understood the accusatory power of photographs. The vast unphotographed domain of the Gulag archipelago became reality in Western minds only through the frenzied memory and meticulous detail of Solzhenitsyn. Reports of Hitler's death camps were repeatedly denied until photographers were able to fix forever in the mind the piles of corpses at Auschwitz and Dachau. Cambodia may have endured the crudest slaughter of a people since Hitler's time, but the evidence had to be pieced together from the individual accounts of fleeing Cambodians. The events they describe overlap, so that estimates...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ·American Caesar, William Manchester ·E.M. Forster: A Life, P.N. Furbank ·In Search of History, Theodore H. White ·Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ·The Annotated Shakespeare, A.L. Rowse ·The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
...Distant Mirror. Barbara W. Tuchman∙American Caesar, William Manchester∙E.M. Forster: A Life, P.N. Furbank∙In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie∙ Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙American Caesar, William Manchester ∙In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙ Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ∙ Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The Gulag Archipelago III. Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen...
...Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn...