On the Natural History of Destruction

Author/Contributor(s):	Sebald, W.G.; Bell, Anthea
Publisher:	Modern Library
Date:	2/17/2004
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

During World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died—a figure twice that of all American war casualties. Seven and a half million Germans were left homeless. Given the astonishing scope of the devastation, W. G. Sebald asks, why does the subject occupy so little space in Germany’s cultural memory? On the Natural History of Destruction probes deeply into this ominous silence.