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FOR HISTORY LOVERS

BURNING THE BOOKS

BY RICHARD OVENDEN (JOHN MURRAY, R345)

urning the Books takes us on a 3 000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the fight to preserve it. Richard Ovenden explains how attacks on libraries and archives have been a

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