{"product_id":"shadow-and-the-flame","title":"Shadow and the Flame","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn urgent history - intimate in its telling, epic in its scope - of the argument that shaped the postwar world: how to define and remember the Holocaust.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Extraordinary and profoundly moving. \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow and the Flame\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading' \u003c\/b\u003eEDMUND DE WAAL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Absolutely superb. An important and hitherto untold story which is more relevant now than ever' \u003c\/b\u003eBART VAN ES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe end of the Second World War marked the end of the attempted extermination of the Jewish people. Stunned by grief, survivors faced the task of not only forging new lives but of shaping how this cataclysm might be remembered by generations to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking us into the minds and hearts of the individuals - some well-known, like Hannah Arendt, Salo Baron and Elie Wiesel, others largely forgotten - who reckoned with this atrocity, \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow and the Flame\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the fierce debate that ensued. From Paris to New York, from the desecrated ghettos of Poland to the fledgling kibbutzim of Israel, acclaimed historian James McAuley reveals how the event that gradually came to be called the Holocaust made an uneasy transition into memory - a memory that, far from receding into the past, weighs all too heavily upon the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBold, learned and infused with the energy and emotion of its principals, \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow and the Flame\u003c\/i\u003e is the dramatic account of the contentious process - at once painful and shot through with urgency and consequence - of crafting history in real time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Compelling, relevant to our times, and beautifully written' \u003c\/b\u003eSIMON KUPER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Reminds us that the creation of public memory is never accidental, and never permanent' \u003c\/b\u003eANNE APPLEBAUM\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A stunning, deeply humane book' \u003c\/b\u003eCLARISSA WARD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Magnificent ... represents a milestone in Holocaust literature' \u003c\/b\u003eDANIEL MENDELSOHN\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James McAuley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67792805363890,"sku":"9781847927392","price":480.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781847927392.jpg?v=1792804135","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/shadow-and-the-flame","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}