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Hello Mastodon, I used to post book reviews on the Meta plattforms, now I want to do the same here ^^

I just finished reading "In cautarea romanului perfect (searching for the perfect Romanian)" by Marius Turda. This is an overview of Romanian eugenic history from the 1880s to the 1950s. It was a tough read, firstly because of its academic structure, as well as the author listing one racist, ableist and eugenic statement after the other with very little criticism or disagreement. The vibe I got was that in regards to Roma people, Jews and other nations, the author completely disagrees with eugenic measures, when it comes to disabled people he isn't quite so sure anymore, maybe some of the measures or talking points were valid - I am sure they weren't. There are a lot of thoughts that still prevail in Romanian society today, and it's important to …

Photo of a book held in the left hand, on a bench in the park. It has a blue cover and the title is in Romanian: In cautarea romanului perfect. Specific national, degenerare rasiala si selectie sociala in Romania moderna. The author is Marius Turda and the publishing company is Polirom.

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Bien, ahora que tengo vuestra atención (😆), os cuento: he reunido varios relatos que he escrito a lo largo de los últimos años en un libro, que he tenido a bien llamar Trece. Y vosotres diréis, «oh, Carlos, ¿por qué has escogido ese título tan curioso?». Me alegra que me hagáis esa pregunta. Pues, además de por las connotaciones que tiene ese número, porque son trece relatos (me he quedado calvo, lo sé). Alguno de ellos es de terror, tanto sobrenatural como psicológico. Otros son sencillamente inquietantes, y otros son apenas microrrelatos que se me ocurrían sobre la marcha. Pero todos llevan un poquito de mí. En el siguiente toot os dejo la portada y la sinopsis para que tengáis más info.

Como siempre, este libro es completamente gratuito, y lo podéis descargar en epub a través del enlace …

103: War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (1869) Intro

Genre: 19th Century, Classics, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literature, Russia, Russian Literature, War

Book at a glance: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy follows Pierre Bezukhov, Prince Andrei, and Natasha Rostova as they navigate love, war, and destiny during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia.

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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann, 2015

The deeply researched, groundbreaking first comprehensive history of the Nazi concentration camps.

In a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise in the spring of 1945.

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The Third Reich has been studied in more depth than virtually any other period in history, and yet until now there has been no history of the camp system that tells the full story of its broad development and the everyday experiences of its inhabitants, both perpetrators and victims, and all those living in what Primo Levi called “the gray zone.”In KL, Wachsmann fills this glaring gap in our understanding. He not only synthesizes a new generation of scholarly work, much of it untranslated and unknown outside of Germany, but also presents startling revelations, based on many years of archival research, about the functioning and scope of the camp system. Closely examining life and death inside the camps, and adopting a wider lens to show how the camp system was shaped by changing political, legal, social, economic, and military forces, Wachsmann produces a unified picture of the Nazi regime and its camps that we have never seen before. A boldly ambitious work of deep importance, KL is destined to be a classic in the history of the twentieth century.