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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization Relié – 6 mai 2008

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At a time when the West seems ever more eager to call on military aggression as a means of securing international peace, Nicholson Baker's provocative narrative exploring the political misjudgements and personal biases that gave birth to the terrifying consequences of the Second World War could not be more pertinent. With original and controversial insights brought about by meticulous research, Human Smoke re-evaluates the political turning points that led up to war and in so doing challenges some of the treasured myths we hold about how war came about and how atrocities like the Holocaust were able to happen. Baker reminds us, for instance, not to forget that it was thanks in great part to Churchill and England that Mussolini ascended to power so quickly, and that, before leading the United States against Nazi Germany, a young FDR spent much of his time lobbying for a restriction in the number of Jews admitted to Harvard.Conversely, Human Smoke also reminds us of those who had the foresight to anticipate the coming bloodshed and the courage to oppose the tide of history, as Gandhi demonstrated when he made his symbolic walk to the ocean -- for which he was immediately imprisoned by the British. Praised by critics and readers alike for his gifted writing and exquisitely observant eye, Baker offers a combination of sweeping narrative history and a series of finely delineated vignettes of the individuals and moments that shaped history that is guaranteed to spark new dialogue on the subject.
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    576 pages
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    Anglais
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    Simon & Schuster Ltd
  4. Date de publication
    6 mai 2008
  5. Dimensions
    16.5 x 24.2 x 4.7 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1847372740
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1847372741
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  • Éditeur ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster Ltd
  • Date de publication ‏ : ‎ 6 mai 2008
  • Édition ‏ : ‎ Third Edition
  • Langue ‏ : ‎ Anglais
  • Nombre de pages de l'édition imprimée  ‏ : ‎ 576 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1847372740
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1847372741
  • Poids de l'article ‏ : ‎ 760 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.5 x 24.2 x 4.7 cm
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    Avis laissé en France le 24 novembre 2010
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    barker a deja ecrit un livre sur les appels erotiques . ici il ecrit un bouquin qui traite churchill de raciste de vat en guerre et mets en .erreurs historiques galore.
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  • Charan
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  • Adam Smith
    5,0 sur 5 étoiles Beautiful perspective
    Avis laissé en Australie le 9 octobre 2020
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    A kind, somber, unique perspective on the most influential event of the 20th century for billions of people.

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  • Vangel Vesovski
    5,0 sur 5 étoiles Some Human Smoke helps you see more clearly..
    Avis laissé aux États-Unis le 18 juillet 2008
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    Let me begin by making it clear that this can be a very frustrating book to read because it isn't like the books that we are used to. That said, it is a great work by a very clever writer who makes us re-examine what we believe about the beginnings of World War II.

    As others have pointed out, Nicholson Baker does not write a standard historical narrative. Instead, he presents a series of facts taken from diaries, memoirs, magazines, government reports and contemporary newspaper accounts and presents them chronologically. Baker does not write a typical narrative that tries to tell readers what to think but expects the readers to connect the dots and come up with their own conclusions.

    Of course, such an approach has set off a fire-storm among some groups because most readers are likely to reach a conclusion that many of the things that we have been told about World War II are myths that are not supported by history, even when history is written by the victors in such a way to present their own case in the best way.

    Please do not misinterpret what I say in this review. In this book Hitler is still a very bad guy who does bad things that cannot be excused. Baker shows no sympathy the Nazis in any way. The problem for many critics isn't that Baker is kind on the established enemies but that he rightfully exposes many of the historical figures we think as heroic and moral as political hacks who were responsible for much unnecessary misery and death. The figures exposed include both FDR and Hitler; they are not shown as the great men that the historians would have us believe that they were.

    Baker clearly shows that early on Churchill was far more worried about communism than he was about fascism and that he said some very flattering and kind things about Hitler and Mussolini. Baker also exposes Franklin Roosevelt an anti-Semite who obsessed about figuring a way to get the United States into war with Japan and how to help American industry sell weapons. (Arms sales was a lucrative business before the two world wars and the English and French did not wish to lose out; like the Americans, the British and French also sold weapons to Germany, including tanks and bombs at a time when some Germans were looking to overthrow Hitler.)

    Then there is the anti-Semitism issue. Baker presents facts that show that when he was a New York attorney in the 1920s, FDR noticed that a third of the freshman class in Harvard was Jewish. He used his influence to establish a quota that would limit the number of Jews that could be accepted. The anti-Jewish sentiments did not end wen he was elected to the Presidency; FDR prevented Congress from passing laws that would help save European Jews. Churchill was not better. He also did not think much of Jews and actually wanted to put Jewish German refugees in prison because they were Germans. His predecessor as Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain stated that Jews were not a lovable people and that he did not care about them. With people like them in power it is not surprising that Hitler thought that he could get away with his plans for Europe's Jews.

    There is one last bit that I need to cover on the topic before I move on. Baker makes it clear that there were plans to deport European Jews to some place where they could live on their own. For some reason, Madagascar was thought to be a suitable place by the Nazis. The problem was that the deportation plans could not take place because the allies refused to lift a blockade that would have allowed the ships to carry on the plans. Churchill was hoping to use the pressure of the blockade as a catalyst that would have starving Germans and citizens of occupied nations to rise against the Nazis.

    It is time to move to another theme; the direct attacks on noncombatants, which used to be strictly forbidden. One form of attack came from a simple but effective blockade that cut off civilians from supplies of food and medicine. Churchill wished to starve the German population in the hope that it would undermine the German war efforts from within. Churchill's blockade was opposed by Herbert Hoover and the Quakers, who are among the heroes of this book because they stood for peace and made efforts to save German Jews and feed starving children and civilians.

    Baker also points out that the bombing of civilians was started by Churchill, not Hitler. On page 178 he quotes James Spaight who wrote, "We began to bomb objectives on the German mainland before the Germans began to bomb objectives on the British mainland." At the beginning the bombings were not acknowledged and the press had to get its information from German radio broadcasts. The British Air Ministry did its best to deny the attacks by saying that the cities hit were not among the bombing objectives. As the conflict escalates things get worse and Baker quotes Lord Trenchard (page 327) suggesting that the RAF ignore targets like military ships and oil fields because only 1% of the bombs hit their target. It was better to choose targets inside German cities because there the other 99% wound up killing civilians who lived in the area and that would disrupt the war effort. Later on (p. 349) Barker quotes Gerald Brenan who writes to a friend that, "'Every German woman and child killed is a contribution to the future safety and happiness of Europe.'

    FDR has similar dreams of bombing civilians and encourages the Chinese to bomb Japanese cities within reach of their air fields. The high density of buildings made with a lot of wood and paper would mean that incendiary devices would be very effective. The period after the book ends shows that the assessment was valid.

    While Churchill gets more space Baker devotes many pages showing that Roosevelt was very anxious to have an armed confrontation with Japan.

    I have to get some sleep now so I better end this review quickly. I really liked the book because it made me think about many things. Unlike may critics I have no problem with going in the direction that Barker obviously wants me to go. This has nothing to do with a blind acceptance of Barker's method and facts but because it fits with much of the extensive research that I have done on the subject. The simple fact is that World War II was not the simple `just war' that we are told that it was. While the Nazis were clearly villains the list of the `good guys' is small and does not include the Allied leaders that have been deified by contemporary Historians. Human Smoke is a valuable chronology of important events rather than a typical historical argument and needs to be read by the thoughtful reader in search of clarification.
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  • Arfon Rhys
    5,0 sur 5 étoiles Human Smoke
    Avis laissé au Royaume-Uni le 30 avril 2009
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    I found this book very enlightening as to the causes and build up to the Second World War and also the Holocaust. It was interesting to realize the extent of anti-Jewish sentiment among both the USA and British war leaders. Many millions of Jews could have been saved from the Holocaust if the USA Britain and France would not have blocked their entry into their countries or even into Palestine or Madagascar. The book is a collection of newspaper, diary, and other reports written at the time and show the mind set which led to the killing of millions of civilians across Europe. The book ends in 1941, so it deals with the period of build up towards the war. A very powerful book which does show that the war enabled the holocaust to happen, and that civilians were the main target of the military on all sides. It has certainly changed my view about this period in history. Well worth reading.
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  • Wolfgang Kreuter
    5,0 sur 5 étoiles chronologie alernative der vorausereignisse des 2. weltkriegs
    Avis laissé en Allemagne le 23 octobre 2022
    Formater: Format KindleAchat vérifié
    hervorragende zusammenstellung von hintergrundinformationen, die man in herkömmlichen historischen darstellungen wenig findet. interessant z.b. die äußerungen churchills über hitler und trotzki mitte der dreißiger jahre.
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