These reflections on the Nazi Holocaust open with the author's childhood in a prison camp and culminate in a short but profoundly disturbing visit to Berlin sixty-five years later. Although addressing many issues, Selzer focuses particularly on the problems of remembering the victims and their persecutors, taking as his starting point the Biblical injunction, "Remember what Amalek did to you." Many will find these reflections troubling, few will deny their profundity and importance.

Anthology of garden verse from ancient Rome to 19th century England and America. Revised and enlarged edition.

Michael Selzer, who was educated in England at Bedales School and at Balliol College, Oxford, has spent much of his life in one corner or the other of the world of books. He is a prolific (even if not, as he says himself, a particularly distinguished) writer of books and articles, and over the past 25 years has been an antiquarian bookseller, bookbinder, and book auctioneer. He is also something of an Internet pioneer, having created Bibliofind, the first major online site for the sale of old, used and rare books, which is now owned by Amazon. The vignettes and ruminations in his latest book,...