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jeanetterenee 's review for:
The Book of Air and Shadows
by Michael Gruber
My recollection with this one is that I was really excited about it in the first half, and it all fell apart in the second half.
A couple of good quotes from the book:
"There are three kinds of history. The first is what really happened, and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened, and that is ninety per cent of the history in books."
"Did you know that Switzerland was a very poor country before the Second World War? Then it was suddenly very rich. That's because they supplied the Nazis with all kinds of technical goodies from factories that couldn't be bombed because they were oh so neutral. Then there's the matter of the 150 million reichsmarks the Nazis stole from exterminated Jews. That's nearly three-quarters of a billion bucks in current dollars. I wonder what became of that? Not to mention the art."
A couple of good quotes from the book:
"There are three kinds of history. The first is what really happened, and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened, and that is ninety per cent of the history in books."
"Did you know that Switzerland was a very poor country before the Second World War? Then it was suddenly very rich. That's because they supplied the Nazis with all kinds of technical goodies from factories that couldn't be bombed because they were oh so neutral. Then there's the matter of the 150 million reichsmarks the Nazis stole from exterminated Jews. That's nearly three-quarters of a billion bucks in current dollars. I wonder what became of that? Not to mention the art."