My husband and I recently finished watching Timothy Snyder's
The Making of Modern Ukraine course online, and enjoyed it so much that I added Snyder to my eReaderIQ list. And now his
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century is on sale for £0.99 at Kindle UK as part of today's Daily Deal.
Kindle UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N9OJ2DX
Spoiler:
Quote:
History does not repeat, but it does instruct
In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to protect them from global existential threats, and rejected reason in favour of myth. European history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances.
History can familiarise, and it can warn. Today, we are no wiser than twentieth century Europe, who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism.
In just 128 pages, Timothy Snyder delves into the past to show us what could happen in the future if our political orders become imperilled.
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Oh, and if you think you might want to watch the course, there's info
here and/or you can just go straight to YouTube and search on "Snyder Making of Modern Ukraine" and it will pop right up. There are 20-ish lectures of 45 - 50 minutes each, and we learned a ton in each and every one.