The Good Old Days: The Holocaust As Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders

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It's also perhaps easier to shrug off the summary arrest, imprisonment, show trials, torture, and execution of political dissidents, people belonging to the wrong ethnic group, and accused "wreckers" when your apartment is no longer subject to the knock on the door at three in the morning. Not that we realised back in the 1970s and 1980s but for many of us today, upon reflection they certainly were.

whose supporters have mindlessly campaigned for his presidency in 2022, despite vehement opposition and anxiety from groups such as (foreign) investors and the very same religious groups who campaigned for Marcos Sr.The most arresting images document the early massacres in the Baltic states, where executions were a public entertainment. Everyone has forgotten what it was actually like at the turn of the century and how terrible it was.

For anyone who thinks that those days were like the American equivalent of a Jane Austen novel, read this book. Just like the Philippines, there are some attempts by supporters (or sympathizers) of deposed dictator Suharto to re-polish his tainted reputation.

Because it is unpleasant to remember the unpleasant, the warm glow of remembered youth tints the past.

The myth of the " noble savage" became particularly popular for many years, arguing that people in undeveloped nations (both in the past and present) actually lived happier lives than those in modern developed nations. As George Orwell's novel Coming Up for Air put it: "Before the [First World] war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round".Carefree days with a camera by the lineside or on station platforms without all the security and bother of today.

It did feel like the book jumped around a bit, though, making it a bit difficult to follow at times. Retro computers are particularly well suited to lightweight puzzle games such as Aztec Tomb on the C64, which do not drown the player at graphical fireworks and super-realistic ray tracing effects.This book doesn't speak about how life is improving (a topic I enjoy) but simply enumerates how life really sucked between about 1870 to 1900. This was an excellent peek into some of the realities of the Gilded Age: the dirt, the grime, pollution, crime, terrible education systems, blah blah blah. I don't usually go for true crime books, but this one fell my way and I thought I'd have a read before passing it on. Author and historian Gilda O'Neill, well-known for her social history books exploring the changing face of London's East End, examines the problems that plagued the "good old days" of the Victorian era, using the thesis that problems of the present day really aren't all that different from the past, and the past is far less rosy than memory and glorified history would have us believe.