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Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning – Book Review

History has its fair share of moments where horrible actions have taken place. It is almost as if history is just one bad thing after the other. Sometimes we might wonder how it could possibly be that human beings can cause such atrocities towards one another. One of the cruelest events in recent history is […]

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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller – Book Review

Pure and utter confusion. That’s how I would start explaining this book. This book is an absolute chaos of many different characters, plotlines and themes. Symbolically it shows the chaos of war. How in war times nothing that should make sense, makes sense anymore. The whole disorder of the book brings a breath of fresh […]

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Se questo è un uomo by Primo Levi – Book Review

Is this a human? That’s the primary question that writer Primo Levi asks in this book. Levi is a holocaust survivor who was deported to Auschwitz and reports on his life in the concentration camp. It’s a powerful book which shows the inhumanity of the people who could built such a thing but also how […]