Adam Fergusson Livres

"The Sack of Bath is a fierce and angry polemic. Through words and photographs it is unashamedly outspoken, outraged and vituperative. The reason for the anger is as follows: in the 1960s local council officials in Bath took it upon themselves to draw up plans to demolish large swathes of artisan housing while retaining the set pieces such as the Royal Crescent. As a result, hundreds of small Georgian houses, of the kind that it is nowadays everyone's dream to live in, were brutally bulldozed. Adam Fergusson (with the late James Lees-Milne) wrote an article in The Times about what was happening and then turned it into a book. This had the benefit of distressing and poignant photographs by, among others, Snowdon, EL Green-Armytage and David Wood (it is impossible, now, to be certain who took which photograph: all were giving their services pro bono)."--Publisher

Originally published in 1975 by William Kimber.

Illustrating what could happen today if European governments try to spend their way out of the economic downturn, this book charts how the German economy was ruined by hyperinflation after the Weimar government allowed public spending to run out of control. The collapse of the Weimar Republic cleared the way for Hitler to seize power.

The classic account of runaway inflation, now in b-format