دانلود کتاب The Memory Chalet

It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head... -TJ One of our leading historians, Tony Judt has written extensively about the twentieth century in the bestselling Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Ill Fares the Land, and Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century. A master of historical analysis forced into nights of motionless contemplation, Judt discovered the depths of his own memory. Bolstered by his fierce intelligence and decades of scholarship, childhood sights and sounds grew to take on vast new meanings.The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any you...