This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald’s celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. Austerlitz is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life
The Battle of Austerlitz is considered by many as the most brilliant of all of Napoleon’s victories. It took place less than a month after the surrender of General Mack’s Austrian Army at Ulm. The Emp
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he
This all-new volume chronicles the events that climaxed on the field of Austerlitz in one of the most famous battles of the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). Not only was it the first campaign that Napoleo
Austerlitz, the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by “one of the most gripping writers imaginable” (The New York Review of Books), is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life’s centr
On 18 July 1943, one-hundred and twenty Jews were transported from the concentration camp at Drancy to the L?vitan furniture store building in the middle of Paris. These were the first detainees of th
Drawing on his background as an ethnomusicologist as well as years of experience as an accomplished jazz musician, Paul Austerlitz argues that jazz--and the world-view or consciousness that surrounds
SummaryA nostalgic, fascinating a behind-the-scenes look at the blockbuster success of NBC’s Friends, including brand-new interviews with the series creators, published for the 25th anniversary of the
A thrilling account of the Altamont Festival—and the dark side of the ‘60s.If Woodstock tied the ideals of the '60s together, Altamont unraveled them. In Just a Shot Away, writer and critic Saul Aust
A carefully curated tour through TV comedy series, this mixtape of fondly remembered shows surveys the genealogy of the form, the larger trends in its history, the best of what the genre has accomplis
Charlie Chaplin.?Buster Keaton.?The Marx Brothers.?Billy Wilder.?Woody Allen.?The Coen brothers.?Where would the American film be without them??Yet the cinematic genre these artists represent--comedy-
Picture yourself in a darkened movie theater, or soothed by the pleasing glow of a television screen. You are watching as a history of the moving image unfolds onscreen, but this history will not tak
