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    Young Hitler. The...

    Young Hitler. The Making of the Fuhrer

    Egelse paperback, in goede staat

    When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, he was just 25 years old. It was a time he would later call the 'most stupendous experience of my life'.

    That war ended with Hitler in a hospital bed, temporarily blinded by mustard gas. The world that he opened his newly healed eyes on was new and it was terrible: Germany had been defeated, the Kaiser had fled and the army had been resolutely humbled.

    Hitler never accepted these facts. Out of his fury rose a white-hot hatred, an unquenchable thirst for revenge against the 'criminals' who had signed the armistice, against the socialists who he accused of stabbing the army in the back and, most violently, against the Jews, a direct threat to the master race of his imagination, on whose shoulders he would pile all of Germany's woes.

    But this was not all about the war; the seeds of that hatred lay in Hitler’s youth.

    By peeling back the layers of Hitler's childhood, his war record and his early political career, Paul Ham's Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer seeks the man behind the myth. How did the defining years of Hitler’s life affect his rise to power?

    More broadly, Paul Ham seeks to answer the question: Was Hitler a freak accident? Or was he an extreme example of a recurring type of demagogue, who will do and say anything to seize power; who thrives on chaos; and who personifies, in his words and in his actions, the darkest prejudices of humankind?

    Paul Ham;

    € 8,50

    Het Spinsel van de...

    Het Spinsel van de Eenzaamheid [Prive Domein 141]

    Mooi exemplaar. Geen naam voorin, nog mooie rechte rug, zo goed als nieuw

    Notities waarin de Amerikaanse letterkundige bespiegelt over het verlies van zijn vader en het opgroeien van zijn zoontje. Flaptekst: Een zoon doet een ontroerende poging greep te krijgen op de vage, bijna zichzelf ontkennende persoonlijkheid van zijn vader. Diens plotselinge dood confronteert de zoon met een vloedgolf van herinneringen, gevoelens en verloren gegane illusies. De verteller wil weten hoe en wie zijn vader was. Een zestig jaar oud moordmysterie moet van beslissende invloed zijn geweest op de contradicties in het karakter en gedrag van zijn vader. De zoektocht werpt de verteller definitief op zichzelf terug. Door de scheiding van zijn vrouw en kinderen is hijzelf in een luchtledig komen te hangen. zijn perspectieven lijken verschrompeld. 

    Paul Auster bezat al een reputatie als dichter, essayist en vertaler toen hij in 1982 Het spinsel van de eenzaamheid publiceerde. Het boek is geheel gebaseerd op autobiografisch materiaal, al beschouwt Paul Auster zelf het niet als een integrale autobiografie: 'Ik hoopte de waarheid omtrent een aantal zaken te kunnen achterhalen en heb daarvoor mijn persoonlijke leven prijsgegeven. Ik diende slechts als voorbeeld.' Overpeinzingen, herinneringen en associaties zijn de middelen waarmee Auster zicht probeert te krijgen op de onlosmakelijke banden tussen heden en verleden.

    Paul Auster; Annelies Eulen (vertaling);

    € 22,50

    Slash

    Slash

    Gebonden met omslag, in zeer goede staat

    From one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll

    He was born in England but reared in L.A., surrounded by the leading artists of the day amidst the vibrant hotbed of music and culture that was the early seventies. Slash spent his adolescence on the streets of Hollywood, discovering drugs, drinking, rock music, and girls, all while achieving notable status as a BMX rider. But everything changed in his world the day he first held the beat-up one-string guitar his grandmother had discarded in a closet.

    The instrument became his voice and it triggered a lifelong passion that made everything else irrelevant. As soon as he could string chords and a solo together, Slash wanted to be in a band and sought out friends with similar interests. His closest friend, Steven Adler, proved to be a conspirator for the long haul. As hairmetal bands exploded onto the L.A. scene and topped the charts, Slash sought his niche and a band that suited his raw and gritty sensibility.

    He found salvation in the form of four young men of equal mind: Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, Steven Adler, and Duff McKagan. Together they became Guns N' Roses, one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands of all time. Dirty, volatile, and as authentic as the streets that weaned them, they fought their way to the top with groundbreaking albums such as the iconic Appetite for Destruction and Use Your Illusion I and II.

    Here, for the first time ever, Slash tells the tale that has yet to be told from the inside: how the band came together, how they wrote the music that defined an era, how they survived insane, never-ending tours, how they survived themselves, and, ultimately, how it all fell apart. This is a window onto the world of the notoriously private guitarist and a seat on the roller-coaster ride that was one of history's greatest rock 'n' roll machines, always on the edge of self-destruction, even at the pinnacle of its success. This is a candid recollection and reflection of Slash's friendships past and present, from easygoing Izzy to ever-steady Duff to wild-child Steven and complicated Axl.

    It is also an intensely personal account of struggle and triumph: as Guns N' Roses journeyed to the top, Slash battled his demons, escaping the overwhelming reality with women, heroin, coke, crack, vodka, and whatever else came along.

    He survived it all: lawsuits, rehab, riots, notoriety, debauchery, and destruction, and ultimately found his creative evolution. From Slash's Snakepit to his current band, the massively successful Velvet Revolver, Slash found an even keel by sticking to his guns.

    Slash is everything the man, the myth, the legend, inspires: it's funny, honest, inspiring, jaw-dropping . . . and, in a word, excessive.

    Slash (Musician) Anthony Bozza ;

    € 20,00
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