Exterminate All the Brutes

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'Lindqvist argues that the Nazi holocaust had its roots in nineteenth century European thought. Such is his main argument, but it would be quite wrong to suggest that he has written a mere tract about ideas. The book is presented as a sequence of 169 short and beautifully written passages in which his story is mixed with autobiographical reflection. A few academics may mutter that this is not a proper history book, and deplore the absence of this year's mandatory theorists from its footnotes. But Lindqvist deserves far better than that. He has written an engaged and engaging book that the general reader can think along with. Were the universities ever to tire of their clotted labyrinths of 'theory' they would hail it as exemplary for its lucidity' - the Independent

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'This book is important...we, our rulers, and their stooges should read it...it contains a message for our future' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian 'The chilling title of this excellent book is the line from Conrad's Heart of Darkness that concludes Kurtz's report on the task of the white man in Africa' Mail on Sunday 'Here is a book which has come out of risk and years of thought' John Berger

Author Bio

Sven Lindqvist was born in 1932 in Stockholm, where he still lives. He has travelled extensively throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America, and is the author of 30 books, including the acclaimed Desert Divers and A History of Bombing.