Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge by Richard Ovenden

Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

Richard Ovenden with Simon Slater (Narrator)

9 hours, 48 minutes first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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In Burning the Books, Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents o...

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