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Babylon is everywhere: The city as man's fate

1 review
Wolf Schneider

Greenwood Press, 1975

Take a trip through "civilization"
Civilization is inseperable from the city. The author gives a brief but interesting overview of the major large cities. Beginning with, perhaps, the most ancient of them all, Babylon, and continuing through to modern times. This book puts the history of civilization in a unique perspective and provides a continuity to history that most history books overlook. Very interesting and readable. ...

Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag

32 reviews
Janusz Bardach, Kathleen Gleeson

University of California Press, 1999

An unbelievably bleak tale of survival in the Gulag
Janusz Bardach, who became a plastic surgeon in Iowa City, Iowa in 1972, recounts his experiences in the Gulag in this bleak tale of survival reminiscent of Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. A secular Jewish man and supporter of Stalin and communism living in Poland In 1939, he and his family fear their future as Germany's military forces are set up along the border. He is eventually ...