Eyewitness to History
by John Carey
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Author: John CareyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-08-01
ISBN: 0380729687
Number of pages: 752
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
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Book Review: 2430 years of recorded horrors.
Summary: 4 Stars
Socrates taught that a good person never knowinglydoes wrong. "Unfortunately", the effect of Socrates
teaching was disruptive since he opposed Tyranny.
Accussed in 399 B.C. on charges of corruption
of the young, he was condemned by the Athenian
authorities to die by drinking hemlock.
In the the book we get Platos eyewitness
account of Socrates death.
From there on we get eyewitness accounts from one
gruesome historic event after another. I particular
"enjoyed" a Viking funeral with gang rape
and human sacrifice(992 A.D),
the execution of Louis the 16th (1793 A.D),
prostitutes in London (1839 A.D.), Winston Churchills
account of the battle of Omdurman (1898 A.D.),
Birkenau (1944 A.D.), My Lai (1968 A.D.) etc.
But somehow I would have appreciated it, if John Carey
had taken the time to tell me what he thinks
it all means.
One could end of up thinking that people are just
a bunch of low lifes. After all that is not the
complete story.
There are glorious moments also, as when Neil Armstong
stands on the Moon in 1969 ?
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