Comments on: Acquisitions http://airminded.org/2008/06/06/acquisitions-61/ Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:09:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2008/06/06/acquisitions-61/#comment-75858 Brett Holman Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:26:10 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=508#comment-75858 Thanks, it is indeed another book I should read one day ... Thanks, it is indeed another book I should read one day …

]]> By: Don Smith http://airminded.org/2008/06/06/acquisitions-61/#comment-75577 Don Smith Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:36:19 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=508#comment-75577 Brett ... I highly recommend W G Sebald's "On the Natural History of Destruction" to you. It's a remakable volume that addresses Germany's literature about, and generally its reaction to, the massive destruction unleashed upon it by the CBO. The insights are stunning, on the one hand not pulling punches about the horror of it all, and noting the natural human reaction of denial in the face of the unimaginable, but also raising the spectre of what has become referred to as Vergangenheitsüberwältigung. In similar vein to glastnost-perestroika - this is soul searching - was this in some way deserved? Brett … I highly recommend W G Sebald’s “On the Natural History of Destruction” to you. It’s a remakable volume that addresses Germany’s literature about, and generally its reaction to, the massive destruction unleashed upon it by the CBO.

The insights are stunning, on the one hand not pulling punches about the horror of it all, and noting the natural human reaction of denial in the face of the unimaginable, but also raising the spectre of what has become referred to as Vergangenheitsüberwältigung. In similar vein to glastnost-perestroika - this is soul searching - was this in some way deserved?

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