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"An outstanding historical novel.”—New York Times

“This novel makes real . . . the whole world of the New Testament.”—Chicago Tribune

“His theme is presented with an assurance and sweetness that is refreshing
in a great novel.”—Christian Science Monitor

The colorful, passionate world of early Christianity comes to vivid life in this story of Basil of Antioch. Basil, a sensitive artisan, is purchased from slavery and commissioned to create a decorative casing for the Chalice that Jesus used at the Last Supper. Basil travels to Jerusalem, Greece, and Rome, meets the apostles, braves the perils of persecution, and finally makes a fateful choice that allows him to “see” Jesus. The dramatic plot, compelling characters, and spiritual depth of The Silver Chalice made it one of the most popular historical novels of the twentieth century.

• Sales Rank: #447906 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.00" h x 2.13" w x 5.00" l, 1.43 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 840 pages

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"An outstanding historical novel.”—New York Times

“This novel makes real . . . the whole world of the New Testament.”—Chicago Tribune

“His theme is presented with an assurance and sweetness that is refreshing
in a great novel.”—Christian Science Monitor

The colorful, passionate world of early Christianity comes to vivid life in this story of Basil of Antioch. Basil, a sensitive artisan, is purchased from slavery and commissioned to create a decorative casing for the Chalice that Jesus used at the Last Supper. Basil travels to Jerusalem, Greece, and Rome, meets the apostles, braves the perils of persecution, and finally makes a fateful choice that allows him to “see” Jesus. The dramatic plot, compelling characters, and spiritual depth of The Silver Chalice made it one of the most popular historical novels of the twentieth century.
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About the Author
Thomas B. Costain (1885–1965) turned to novel-writing in middle age after a distinguished career as a magazine and book editor in New York. His historical novels, which were marked by meticulous research and rousing action, were best sellers in the mid-twentieth century. His most popular works were The Black Rose (1945) and The Silver Chalice (1952).

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Introduction
Peggy Noonan


Fifty years apart, two novels, each concerned with the history of early Christianity, led the best-sellers list for not just weeks or months—but years.
What a difference a half century makes. The more recent top best seller is, of course, The Da Vinci Code, published in 2003. It offers exotic conspiracy theories, colorful if unfounded speculation on church history, and an attempt to discredit the Gospels while claiming to reveal the real lowdown on Christianity’s origins.
But in 1952 and 1953, the reading public was offered a very different take on the early Christians. A richly detailed novel fleshed out that early period of Christian history and sought to bring it to life: The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain.
The Silver Chalice, the story of early Christianity as told through the eyes and experience of Basil, a former slave, was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1952 and the second most popular novel in 1953. What bested The Silver Chalice in that second year? The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas, the story of the impact of Jesus’ garment on the Roman soldier who won it at the crucifixion, another thick read about early Christianity.
The times have indeed changed, which says much about our public faith, our interests, and even our cynicism. Certainly it says a great deal about the judgment of our nation’s modern publishing establishment. Today, if they were handed a lengthy manuscript that told a riveting and respectful story of early Christians, most houses would get the icks. At best, they’d relegate it to their small Christian-publishing arms. At worst, and more likely, they would never read it and would simply respond, “It’s not for us.”

Lucky for us they never got their hands on the work of Thomas B. Costain.

Costain came to novel-writing late in life, after a long career in journalism and story-editing for film. Well into his fame as a novelist, he told interviewers that he always saw himself as “a reporter . . . in the sense that a reporter tries to be accurate and interesting.” And was he ever both accurate and interesting. His historical fiction was marked by such meticulous research, such reliable detail, that one suspects he may have written his series of highly popular novels to justify his time spent researching them. Costain might have spent his life puttering happily among stacks of dusty books if it hadn’t been for a powerful imagination in service of an ardent heart that wished to reveal the past. For all his academic reliability, he was hugely popular with the general public. (This popularity did not transfer to the filmed version of The Silver Chalice. The movie features a badly miscast Paul Newman in his screen debut. Newman was subsequently so abashed by his performance as Basil that years later, when the film was scheduled to be run every night for a week on a Los Angeles television station, he took out an ad in the Los Angeles Times that read “Paul Newman Apologizes Every Night This Week.” The broadcasts, of course, got stellar ratings, which is perhaps not what Newman—who had declared he would never again make a film wearing a “cocktail dress”—had hoped for.)
Though Paul Newman played Basil in the movie version of The Silver Chalice, it’s not necessary to picture Newman in this role—unless you really want to—in the reading of The Silver Chalice, for as he always does, Thomas Costain offers rich descriptions not only of people but of places and things. He succeeds in bringing us into the world of first-century Christianity, from Jerusalem to Rome and points in between.

The skillful novelist knows that quite often the best way to present an unfamiliar environment is through the eyes of an outsider. Costain’s outsider is Basil, sold into slavery as a young man. He is a skillful artisan, particularly with precious metals, who is called by rather mysterious figures to Jerusalem for a surprising purpose: to create a “chalice” which will hold the cup that Jesus used at the Last Supper. Basil is not a believer and does not immediately understand his commission. The apostle Luke brings Basil to Jerusalem for this purpose, and to the home of Joseph of Arimathea, who would fund the project. Part of the tale involves protecting the cup from the hardy enemies of Christianity.

The chalice was not to be randomly decorated. Basil realized that it should portray the scene of the Last Supper, with the faces of Jesus and his twelve apostles carefully crafted into silver metalwork. But how to see those faces?

Through this challenge Costain brings us into the world of early Christianity: Basil must create his images of Jesus and his twelve apostles ideally from life, or at least from the recollections of others. His quest moves the story on two levels, both physical and spiritual. In his search for the subjects and those who can tell him about them, Basil travels through the Mediterranean world, ending his journey in Rome. On a spiritual level, Basil’s work takes him more deeply into the Christian world, though with one obstacle: he cannot “see” Jesus in his mind’s eye in the same way he has been able to “see” the apostles. The inability puzzles and frustrates him, for every once in a while he seems to catch a fleeting glimpse.

Basil’s inability to see Jesus—and remember, in the Gospels, seeing and blindness are frequent metaphors for faith and the lack of it—is tied to a choice he has made, an attitude that seems to be unrelated to his quest to craft the silver Chalice. As we watch Basil grow in the realization of how the two are connected, however, we too are challenged to reflect on what elements in our lives prevent us from seeing.

Basil’s choice, his attitude, involves a quest for revenge against some who had injured him in the past. He wants to win back his birthright; he’d been cheated and hurt by an unscrupulous relative. A central tension in the book is between his human desire for revenge and his human desire to transcend hurt, to keep the desire for retribution from deforming his life. At the end there is a twist; he gets what he needs if not what he wants, as does the woman he eventually marries. He gives up the desire to equal the scales and inflict punishment. And after this, for the first time, he can “see.”

Basil’s story is but a thread in this tale. Costain brings us into a world in which Christianity, a small group that is still essentially a sect of Judaism, is in constant conflict with the powers around it, from the Sanhedrin to the forces of the Roman Empire. Costain’s eye for detail and observation brings this world to vivid life. There are a few anachronisms expressive of the values of the 1950s that might make the modern reader cringe as well as theological assessments of Jesus’ teachings that are more reflective of Norman Vincent Peale than of what the Gospels actually say. But these flaws are common in Biblical epics of this period, a time when Catholics were discouraged from reading Lloyd Douglas’s The Robe because of overly “naturalistic” descriptions of Jesus’ miracles.

One of the more intriguing conflicts in The Silver Chalice is with the magician Simon Magus, who is assisted by the slavegirl Helena, Basil’s old friend. Simon sets himself up as a competitor to Christianity and finds an audience drawn by his claims. Is this conflict historical?

Yes, no, and maybe. Simon Magus is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 8:9–24) as a magician, active in Samaria. He converts to Christianity and is baptized, but then, having observed the apostles’ powers of healing, offers to pay them for the power of the Spirit. He is, of course, rejected, leaving behind a tradition from which the word simony (the act of paying for religious observance or practice) is derived.

According to several nonbiblical works of early Christianity, Simon’s story does not end there. Costain uses many of these sources to flesh out the character of Simon Magus. Writing in the second century, St. Justin Martyr spoke of a Helena—believed to be a reincarnation of Helen of Troy—whom Simon redeems from slavery, as he does in The Silver Chalice, and who serves as Simon’s assistant. The Clementine writings—a group of stories with Christian characters dating from the late fourth and fifth centuries—posit a rivalry between Peter, Paul, and Simon. So does the apocryphal Acts of Peter, the source—with some emendations skeptical of the spiritual power these legends attribute to Simon—of Costain’s account of Simon’s death.

Using all sorts of resources—the New Testament, legends of the period, and the historical research available to him at the time—Costain constructed a rich world of faith and conflict in The Silver Chalice. In reading it, we find an entertaining window into the past, and, as in all good books, tensions and challenges that prompt us to look more closely at the present. How, indeed, do I “see” Christ? What value do I place on my faith? What would I sacrifice for it? Who are the Simon Maguses of today? What tricks do they tempt me with? Who are the Neros? What pleasures do they offer to seduce me away from Christ? What is the form of their rage and scorn when I refuse?

More basically, Costain asks us what a marriage is and means; what loyalty is; why some men prefer to take energy from anger and resentment, from a sense of being beset, and others take their energy from love and from something higher. All this is in The Silver Chalice. Perhaps the best way to read it is to make believe it is a wonderful television miniseries that takes its time in telling you its tale. It&...

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A gripping story of Love, Labor and Faith
By Rosie Cardo
This book was given to me over the summer by my mother who read it when she was young. From the moment I opened it, I couldn't put it down. The story of Basil's journey from Antioch to Jerusalem is one of great courage and faith. The fictional characters are well developed, and the historical ones are portrayed quite uniquely with qualities of real people one seldoms sees in Paul and Luke. This book has led me to read more of this genre, including Taylor Caldwell's "Dear and Glorious Physician". The awkward situation Basil finds himself in between Helena and Deborra is a believable situation, and it provides great insight into the mind of an intelligent, and proud young man. I recommend this book to those who are fascinated with history, the Christian religion and excellent writing.

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On My List of Top 5 Books!
By writergal
I am a prolific reader and The Silver Chalice is one of my all time favorite books. It has suspense, history, greed, romance, love, longing, spirituality - the list of in depth emotions that the main character experiences is amazing. Basil is adopted by a wealthy family at a young age and upon his adopted father's death he is sold into slavery. The story of how he meets Luke, the great physician, Joseph of Arimathea, and many other bibical characters and their influence on his life is astounding. This is a must read book that you will want to read many times.

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
Keep the Light Burning
By Lee Armstrong
Thomas B. Costain's "The Black Rose" enthralled me during the Christmas 2006 season. I found a copy of his 1952 novel "The Silver Chalice" @ a friends of the library sale and snapped it up with glee. While it sat on my reading table almost a year until Christmas 2007, it was well worth the wait.

Costain weaves his tale, set with a backdrop of the early Christian struggle in the years immediately after the crucifixion. Paul is a major character as is the physician Luke, who of course is credited with writing one of the Biblical gospels. I found it interesting that while The Urantia Book speaks of the Apostle John living until age 101 and dying in the heart of Africa, Costain's novel finds him hiding in caves near Rome.

The fictional story is gripping. Beginning in Antioch, it follows a boy named Ambrose who is sold by his father to a wealthy merchant Ignatius who adopts him and changes his name to Basil. The story follows Basil's artistic talents and temperament until his father's death. Rather than his adoptive son inheriting Ignatius' wealth, his greedy brother Linus disputes the adoption, bribes judge & witnesses, and sells Basil into slavery. Virtually imprisoned, Basic creates lovely jewelry until Luke steps in and pays off his owner and takes Basil to Jerusalem to Joseph of Arimathea, a wealthy Christian merchant. Joseph who is elderly and failing wants Basil to create a frame that has the faces of the apostles to hold the silver chalice that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper. Costain weaves in romance, as Basil is attracted to Joseph's granddaughter Deborah. The plot takes off from there. In 533 pages, Basil travels to Rome and is entangled in Nero's court.

I found the tale to spark many spiritual feelings in me, the love of Jesus, the appreciation of loyalty in the face of peril and the sweet sense of brotherhood between the early Christians. Costain concludes his novel with Luke envisioning modern times and how Jesus will be as important to later generations. The story is replete with many vivid characters, the giants who defend the camel train for example. I found myself not wanting to turn the light out at night and thinking the extra time reading was worth the experience the next day. This is another charming tale from Costain. I'm so glad I discovered it! Enjoy!

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“[A] monumental study . . . a work of prodigious scholarship . . .with agonizing human texture and extraordinary detail . . . Wachsmann makes the unimaginable palpable. That is his great achievement.” ―Roger Cohen, The New York Times Book Review

“[An] impressive and authoritative new study . . . [a] gripping, humane, and beautifully written narrative.” ―Richard Evans, The New York Review of Books

“KL is a definitive history . . . Mr. Wachsmann's most impressive achievement in this synthetic work is his portraits of individual human beings. It takes hard effort to assemble enough sources on inmates or SS men to sustain them as characters in a book of this length. The prisoners had a range of references to describe their ordeals, from the Book of Exodus through Dante's Inferno. In the generations since, their experience has become one of our points of reference in moral discussions, and it is all the more gratifying to see the camp inmates portrayed here with unvarnished humanity. Mr. Wachsmann has in effect united the best of the German and the British schools of grand World War II history: hugely but humbly exhaustive research with attention to character and to detailed narrative.” ―Timothy Snyder, The Wall Street Journal

“This is history writing of the highest order, and KL is surely one of the outstanding books written on the Third Reich in the past decade. Its author, Nikolaus Wachsmann, a professor of history at Birkbeck College, London, succeeds brilliantly in telling us much we did not know about what might seem like one of the most familiar phenomena of the Third Reich . . . What we have lacked all this time is a synoptic analysis of the development and character of the entire Nazi camp system. Now we have it and it will not need to be done again. In fact, anyone seriously interested in the Third Reich should read this book.” ―Mark Mazower, Financial Times

“Magisterial” ―Thomas Laqueur, London Review of Books

“[A] superb book . . . essential, profoundly sobering . . . It is difficult to imagine a more powerfully instructive telling of this painful story, and it will certainly be a long time before this masterly account is superseded.” ―Janet Caplan, The Times Literary Supplement

“Deeply researched, groundbreaking history.” ―Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker

“While Wachsmann holds himself to highest standards of scholarship, he is also a gifted author whose eye frequently falls on the telling or surprising detail, which makes KL not only an important work of history, but also, even at 865 pages in length, a rich and highly readable book, full of incident and irony.” ―Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal

“Brilliant . . . Wachsmann writes fluently and stylishly . . . even on the harrowing subject of concentration camps, his work is eminently readable . . . [KL] is the first comprehensive study of the camps, based on mastery of a huge literature and stupendous research in many parts of the world. Its value lies in no small measure in the way it weaves together the history both of the perpetrators and of the victims . . . The value of the book transcends its own topic, centrally important though that is. It offers, in fact, a corrective to recent trends of interpretation of the Third Reich.” ―Sir Ian Kershaw, The Telegraph (UK)

“This book is a remarkable achievement. Nikolaus Wachsmann has written the first integrated history of Nazi concentration camps, unifying in a single narrative the policies and measures governing the inception and growth of the system, the context in which the monstrous KL developed and how each of its stages and facets was recorded and remembered by its victims. The study is essential for a further understanding of the Third Reich.” ―Saul Friedlander, author of The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

“Nikolaus Wachsmann has written an admirable historical overview of the Nazi concentration camps, effectively combining decades of recent scholarship with his own original research. He captures both the trajectory of dynamic change through which the camp system evolved as well as the experiences and agency--however limited--of the prisoner community. This is an impressive and valuable book.” ―Christopher R. Browning, author of Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

“It is hard to imagine that Nikolaus Wachsmann's superb book, surely to become the standard work on Nazi concentration camps, will ever be surpassed. Based on a huge array of widely scattered sources, it is a gripping as well as comprehensive and authoritative study of this grim but highly important topic.” ―Sir Ian Kershaw, author of The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944 – 1945

“This is the fullest and most comprehensive history of the Nazi concentration camps in any language: a magnificent feat of research, full of arresting detail and cogent analysis, readable as well as authoritative: an extraordinary achievement that will immediately take its place as the standard work on the subject.” ―Sir Richard J Evans, author of The Third Reich at War

“[I]f a bookshelf has room for only one history of the Holocaust, this is a strong contender for that space.” ―Stephanie Shapiro, The Buffalo News

“[A] comprehensive and ground-clearing work of research and a wrenching work of narrative. It's gruesome reading, but you're in masterful hands the entire time.” ―Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly

“Nikolaus Wachsmann... delivers a comprehensive history of an unendurable subject. ...[He] has absorbed an enormous amount of recent research on the KL. From this mountain of material he has crafted a fluent and gripping history.” ―David Mikics, Tablet Magazine

“Wachsmann's meticulously detailed history is essential for many reasons, not the least of which is his careful documentation of Nazi Germany's descent from greater to even greater madness. To the persistent question, "How did it happen?," Wachsmann supplies voluminous answers.” ―Earl Pike, Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Monumentally impressive . . . seems certain to become the definitive history of the Nazi concentration camps . . . his scholarship brings new life to a familiar subject.” ―Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times (UK)

“Profoundly important . . . exceptional . . . will surely become the standard work on the subject.” ―Laurence Rees, The Irish Mail on Sunday

“A remarkable feat . . . readable, accessible . . . KL represents the acme of what the historical discipline can achieve.” ―Dan Stone, BBC History Magazine

“[A] magnificent work of scholarship . . . every page of Nikolaus Wachsmann's magisterial account is suffused with humanity.” ―David Cesarani, Literary Review (UK)

“Wachsmann's exhaustive study will be seen as the authoritative work on the subject.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review

“A harrowing, thorough study of the Nazi camps . . . A comprehensive, encyclopedic work that should be included in the collections of libraries, schools and other institutions.” ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

About the Author
Nikolaus Wachsmann is a professor of modern European history at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of the prizewinning Hitler's Prisons and a coeditor of Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany: The New Histories.

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104 of 106 people found the following review helpful.
A scholarly and groundbreaking work
By Ash Jogalekar
This book is unlikely to be surpassed. It documents for the first time the complete and comprehensive history of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp system from 1933-1945. In the process it clears up some misunderstood beliefs and showcases how the Nazi march toward the Holocaust was based on a continuum rather than an overnight momentous decision.

Wachsmann demonstrates how the first concentration camps - ramshackle holding cells really - were set up in 1933 after Hitler came to power. The purpose of these camps was to intimidate and silence all kinds of opponents, from vagabonds and Communists to drunks and Jews. Targeting only Jews was not the purpose of these camps.

The camps subsided for a few years after 1933 but were rekindled in the late 30s after Hitler, Himmler and others set their plan for a 'Master Order' based on race in effect. Jews, gypsies and homosexuals started to be specifically targeted after 1938, although even then until 1941 or so the main plan was intimidation, financial extortion and forced migration.

It was only in 1942 that the plan turned toward extermination; the Wannsee conference was an important touchstone (although again not the most important or the only one). But even here, the methods for extermination were based on older ones. Killing by gas was a legacy of the horrific T-4 euthanasia program of the 30s. Wachsmann also reminds us that the Holocaust did not suddenly start with the gas chambers but was initiated by the SS Einsatzgruppen killing squads in the Ukraine and the Soviet Union. Also, the first casualties of many of the camps were not Jews but Soviet POWs. Another book that details this background very well is Richard Rhodes's "Masters of Death".

The book also demolishes some myths. One myth of course is the belief that the Holocaust somehow sprang fully from someone's head or signature or from a single conference in 1942. As the book demonstrates, this is not true and the whole program grew out of an escalation of historical acts from the 1930s onwards, sometimes through accidents and fits and starts. The other myth the book addresses is of Auschwitz somehow being the most gruesome emblematic symbol of the Holocaust. As terrible as Auschwitz was, the book makes it clear that unlike Auschwitz, four other camps (Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec and Chelmno) were dedicated exclusively to extermination. Auschwitz was also a labor camp; this fact was valuable because it allowed many survivors to escape and tell their stories. However an unintended side effect of their unforgettable testimony is the belief that Auschwitz stood for everything the Holocaust stood for. As the book documents in great detail, reality was more complicated.

Wachsmann talks about all of this as well as the mind numbing bureaucracy that permeates even an unimaginable atrocity like the Holocaust at great length. Yet the prose in this 800 page volume is remarkably readable, partly because somehow Wachsmann still finds space to focus on individual personalities, from the infamous to the mundane. He never lets us forget that the Holocaust was perpetrated by many ordinary people, and this remains perhaps the most disturbing fact of all. This is quite definitely the most panoramic, nuanced and authoritative view published until now, not just of the camps per se but of their historical evolution. Painful and gut-wrenching to read in many places, but a necessary and very valuable contribution even to the mountain of literature that exists about the Third Reich.

56 of 59 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent history of the Nazi concentration camps
By JEDCJT
As its title suggests, the book chronicles the formation, expansion, and entrenchment of the Nazi concentration camps (known as the Konzentrationslager, KL), from its haphazard beginnings in 1933 to its ignominious end in 1945. As Wachsmann reveals, the KL played a central, if not pivotal, role in the consolidation of the 'Thousand-Year Reich' following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. From the beginning, a growing number of citizens found themselves incarcerated in the newly formed camps on virtue of their political orientation (mainly Communists) and their race, ethnicity, and religion (Jews, among others the Nazis deemed 'inferior') -- and these numbers would continue to expand from hundreds to tens of thousands, and more so during the Second World War. Interestingly, at least in the beginning, the KL was by no means guaranteed to become a permanent fixture of the Nazi regime; the legal judicial authorities increasingly lambasted the KL not least because they had the potential to tarnish Germany's international image. Were it not for Hitler's decisive intervention, the KL would have faded away sometimes in the mid- to late 1930s. This was not to happen, of course, and under the supervision of the ever-ambitious Himmler and other officials such as Theodor Eicke (who headed Dachau, the first concentration camp set up under the Nazis, and who would reorganize the KL system on a large scale), the KL would play an increasingly lethal role in the Nazi machine of repression. (According to the author, the lethality of the KL was such to an extent that its prisoners were more likely to perish there -- especially during the war -- than their Soviet counterparts in the Gulag). I found this to be a very fascinating, if distressing, subject, and I believe that readers will come away from this book with an increased understanding, if not appreciation, of a relatively little-explored topic in the history of Nazi Germany.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
An evolutionary history
By Maine Colonial
This is an excellent overview of the vast KL system and its history from the 1930s through the end of World War II. Wachsmann's writing is particularly lucid, with a very readable mix of anecdotal and archival/statistical documentation.

The largely chronological organization helps reveal the evolution of the camps. It's easy to have just one picture of how the KL worked, but Wachsmann does a fine job showing how the camps not only had different purposes from each other, but that the purposes and methods of operation changed over time. One example he explores is how the work camps became statistically less deadly in 1943, in response to Himmler's orders to make prisoners more of a labor resource to outside industry.

Another particular strength is Wachsmann's showing how Nazi ideology swayed--and sometimes very far--to serve war expedients and the ambitions of commandants and their superiors. He enlivens his work by illustrating his conclusions with examples of particular individuals, both well-known historical figures and numerous people whose fate was to be swept into the brutal world of the camps.

Wachsmann tackles some of the conventional wisdom about the camps and the prisoners (such as that all kapos were sadists, that prisoners became completely dehumanized, that women formed close bonds but men didn't), presents his views and reasons for his conclusions. Wachsmann has a clear-eyed, pragmatic and logical style. He is no prisoner of ideology in his approach.

Along with another stellar recent work, Sarah Helm's Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women, this will be a resource for years to come.

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“While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I’ve found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their higher goals above their desire for recognition.” —from the prologue
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"Forget yourself and focus on the work. Be humble and persistent. Value discipline and results, not passion and confidence. Be lesser, do more. This message is crucial, but the opposite of almost every other book. I wish everyone would read this. I need to re-read it each year. It's that important."
—Derek Sivers, author of Anything You Want

"In an age when self-promotion and celebrity are glorified to the hilt and 'hero' gets overused, Ryan Holiday's book is a reminder that the biggest impediment to achievement is often ourselves. Holiday retells stories of the famous and not so famous that will both inspire you and stop you in your tracks. This is a book to savor by reading it in increments so the power of the examples sinks in, leaving time for healthy reflection. If the rat race of modern life has you feeling burned out,�Ego is the Enemy�just might help you view philosophy as anything but a relic of the ancient Greeks."
—Edith Chapin, executive editor at NPR News

About the Author

RYAN HOLIDAY�is a bestselling author and media strategist. He dropped out of college at nineteen to�apprentice�under Robert Greene, author of�The 48 Laws of Power, and later served as the director of�marketing�for American Apparel. His company, Brass Check, has advised clients like Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as many prominent bestselling authors. Holiday has written several other books, including�The Obstacle Is the Way, which has been translated into twenty languages and has a cult following among NFL coaches, world-class athletes, TV personalities, political leaders, and others around the world. He lives on a small ranch outside Austin, Texas.�Visit�www.RyanHoliday.net.

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It’s wrecked the career of promising young geniuses.
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It’s evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground.
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It’s made adversity unbearable and turned struggle into shame.
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It derails ambition, turns success into poison, and makes failure the most bitter taste of all.
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Its name? Ego.
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Ego is the enemy—of what you want to achieve, of what you have, and what you’re struggling to overcome.
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It’s an internal opponent warned against by every great philosopher, in our most lasting stories and countless works of art, in every culture, in every age.
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In the pages of this book, we fight to destroy it before it destroys us.

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A modern work of practical philosophy
By Camden Gaspar
If ego is nothing more than a Freudian concept to you, then you may not have any idea how it’s holding you back right now. But don’t think that author Ryan Holiday aims to bore us with the same stale pop-psychology tropes that most books on the Self-Help shelf use to fill out their pages. What the author has provided us is actually a great work of modern practical philosophy.

Those familiar with Holiday’s last book, “The Obstacle is the Way,” will know exactly what practical philosophy means. Eschewing the commonly held view that philosophy is the province of academics in classrooms bloviating about abstract concepts, Holiday follows the Stoic tradition that puts philosophy firmly in the realm of everyday life. It’s about learning to deal with destructive emotions, unpredictable circumstances, self-interested people, and yes, ego, without succumbing to them. It’s philosophy as a way of achieving a better life.

In “Ego is the Enemy,” Holiday moves beyond the clinical definitions of ego and places the concept firmly in the realm of the practical. To be sure, the clinical and the practical in this case have some common ground. Modern psychologists define the ego as a critical part of identity construction, and further, an egotist as someone excessively focused on himself. Holiday defines ego along those lines: “an unhealthy belief in our own importance. Arrogance. Self-centered ambition…It’s when the notion of ourselves and the world grows so inflated that it begins to distort the reality that surrounds us.”

The idea that becoming untethered from reality is the primary symptom of an ego out of control is the thread that unites all three sections of this book. Holiday expands this idea throughout the three sections that form a continuum - Aspire, Success, and Failure - to show how this form of ego plagues everyone from the ambitious and striving, to the wildly successful and those who have been crushed by personal and professional defeat. In our own lives, we are always somewhere on that circle of aspiration, success and failure.

To this end, Holiday goes right to the sources of practical wisdom: the primary sources of great practical wisdom – Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Aristotle, and Martial to name a few - and the biographies of those who apply that wisdom to great effect or ignore it at their own peril.

This is where Holiday’s other key influence, strategist and author Robert Greene, becomes apparent. Like Greene, all of Holiday’s chapters start out with a short, pithy title sets the direction of the advice contained within the chapter. From there, Holiday mines the stories of great men and women who have either applied the advice laid out in the chapter title or ignored it and shows us the consequences of both.

For example, in the chapter titled, “Restrain Yourself” in the Aspire section of the book, Holiday launches right into the story of Jackie Robinson. As the first black player in the newly integrated MLB, Robinson faced discrimination and outright abuse at the hands of everyone from his own teammates and opponents, to hotel managers and restaurant owners and, of course, the press. At any point, Robinson could have lashed out, fighting back to defend his dignity against the injustices he faced.

But Robinson knew that if he fought back even once, it would end his MLB career and set the prospect of full integration of the league back for a generation. As Holiday writes, “Jackie’s path called for him to put aside both his ego and in some respects his basic sense of fairness and rights as a human being.”

Now, it’s likely that few of us will face the kind of treatment Robinson did, but the lesson here is that when we have ambitions and goals, we’re likely to run into the kind of people that Robinson did. The kind who react to your striving with cold indifference. The kind who aim to weaken your will with taunts and jeers. The kind who will go out of their way to sabotage you and undo all your efforts.

Holiday concludes here that ego tells us to snap back at these people and demand the respect we think we deserve. But that won’t earn it from anyone. We must ignore this impulse, no matter how badly we’re treated, and continue to work on our craft and ourselves. We must forget what we think the world owes us and focus on building our base, developing our skills and continuing to learn.

The rest of the chapters follow this same model, and plumb the depths of modern and ancient history to show us how those who put their egos aside achieve great things. Think of New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick spending years doing unpaid grunt work and film study before finally getting a chance to put his knowledge into practice. Think of the great conqueror Genghis Khan seeking greater knowledge and expertise from those he defeated, rather than forcing them into silent subservience.

Yet, others turn themselves into cautionary tales. Howard Hughes was a mechanical genius who inherited a successful family business, and then squandered all of it through a lack of focus, entitlement and paranoia. John DeLorean had a great vision for an automobile company, but never built the solid foundation of leadership skills he would need to run a successful company.

Holiday gives us a healthy dose of both kinds of stories, and that’s what makes the advice in this book stick with us. Ultimately, practical philosophy is meant to be used in our daily lives, away from the safety of our reading chair. Holiday’s aphoristic style of advice, bolstered by memorable stories is what gives us the tools we need to remember this wisdom when our egos start to take control of us.

Holiday positions the three states of our lives – Aspire, Success and Failure – as being a never ending continuum. We must put our egos aside as we aspire to our goals, aside when we achieve them, and aside again when we flame out and have to start over. At each stage, ego threatens to knock us off the continuum altogether and lock us into an unproductive state of stasis.

Taming your ego is never easy, but it is essential when we are confronted by failure or bolstered by success, as we all will be in our lives. Ego can easily let both conditions become debilitating: With success, we think we can stop being humble and working hard. In failure, we can become paralyzed, blaming others for our rotten luck and ignoring the fact that it’s on us to right the ship.

Ego is always encroaching on us, even after we think we’ve beaten it back. As Daniele Bolelli puts it, a floor doesn’t stay clean because you’ve swept it once; you must sweep again and again. With this short, accessible book, Holiday gives us the tools we need to do just that.

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Downgrading the Ego While Lifting Up the Self-Respect
By M. JEFFREY MCMAHON
As I was reading Ryan Holiday’s quotation-rich book Ego Is the Enemy, I began to realize one cannot simple tear down one’s ego. Such a process is actually twofold: The ego diminishes, and the self-respect flourishes. One event can’t occur without the other.

This is a spiritual dynamic albeit a secular and philosophical one in the hands of Ryan Holiday. He wants to “remind” us with “moral stories” to be our better selves, “our better impulses.”

A humanist, Holiday believes we can, as Aristotle said, smooth out the warped wood that is human nature. To smooth the wood, we must confront and defuse our ego. He defines the ego as “an unhealthy belief in your own importance.” He elaborates: “It’s that petulant child inside every person, the one that chooses getting his or her way over anything or anyone else. The need to be better than, more than, recognized for, far past any reasonable utility—that’s ego.” This ego “distorts reality,” and in fact disconnects us from reality (funny, as I read this book I thought of Walter White from Breaking Bad).

This taming of the ego, however, cannot be performed in a vacuum. We must at the same time, Holiday reminds us, find a purpose and find our dignity and self-respect. Purpose, meaning, dignity, self-respect, and endless curiosity are the antidotes to ego.

One of the most salient lessons I learned is that nurturing the ego is a form of death or as Holiday, quoting Robert Greene, refers to as “dead time.” In one of my favorite passages, we read: “According to Greene, there are two types of time in our lives: dead time, when people are passive and waiting, and alive time, when people are learning and acting and utilizing every second.” To be entrapped in our ego, is to recoil from the world around us, to retreat into solipsism, and to chain ourselves to “dead time.”

Another danger of ego is that it makes us fear the embarrassment of failure and ultimately makes us cowards. Holiday quotes Seneca: “He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man.”

All of us suffer from our ego, which raises its ugly head either brazenly or insidiously. It’s good to remind ourselves often of our ego’s dangers to others and ourselves. Holiday has written an entertaining, compelling, and helpful remedy for our ego’s woes. Highly recommended.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Everyone Should Read This
By Matthew Morine
This is one of the most needed books today. Everyone has an ego, and those who do not believe this truth, are the most blinded themselves. This was a great read, the stories are excellent, the wisdom is true, and the book helps to navigate an ego inflating world. "Now more than ever, our culture fans the flames of ego. It’s never been easier to talk, to puff ourselves up (4)". This is a book that everyone young person should read. It will inspire you to focus on substance, and not on image. We need more people of real character, and not more people trying to make a name for themselves. "Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive." The book talks about staying the student, still working hard, and realizing actions should be motivated through true motives. Too often we hid away from feedback, because we cannot admit we are wrong. We protect ourselves, but really behind these actions is an ego. We create static positions for ourselves. The author writes "It is impossible to learn that which one thinks one already knows,” Epictetus says. You can’t learn if you think you already know. You will not find the answers if you’re too conceited and self-assured to ask the questions. You cannot get better if you’re convinced you are the best." I really like some of the characters from history that the author talked about. One was General Sherman, and his approach to fame. Other men who were successful during this time, demanded power, but it seemed that Sherman was happy to serve, and be content with this truth. The book talks about the need to help others. Imagine if for every person you met, you thought of some way to help them, something you could do for them? And you looked at it in a way that entirely benefited them and not you. The cumulative effect this would have over time would be profound: You’d learn a great deal by solving diverse problems. You’d develop a reputation for being indispensable. You’d have countless new relationships. You’d have an enormous bank of favors to call upon down the road." Instead people sometimes write and work to help themselves, to create advantages for themselves, but this approach is more concerned with YOUR needs, and not those around you. Help others, and others will help you perhaps. Ego is probably one of the most destructive forces in the world today. Too many of fallen to its sweet song of pain. Great book to read.

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The Raj as family history
By Sceptique500
The author has chosen to recount the coming about of the British Raj using the lens of family history. It is an interesting approach, for it gives depth to historical events we would otherwise skim over. Nothing is better than human color and detail for getting a handle on many angles of the period. The interest seldom flags, and one is drawn along with the narrative flowing as a majestic river.

The book is at its best when it retells the relentless march of British greed, gobbling up everything in its path. The author is clear-headed about it. Some of the rulers were petty despots, profligate, effete, and often plain dumb. Nevertheless, the way they were brings no credit to the perpetrators. There is no indication that British rule made much difference to the peasants in the fields. On the contrary: the old system, meretricious as it was, allowed for ambiguities and accommodation. It was elastic. British rule may have been just, but it was unduly harsh, unbending, and blind to the realities on the ground. It does not surprise that most famines in India took place during the period of British paramountcy.

The chosen approach has drawbacks, however. Where the family record is silent, the author either remains mute or needs to interpolate from sometimes a skewed angle. The “Mutiny” here is not presented here in full: there are aspects of it that are highlighted, others are ignored – it is all a bit haphazard. It is also regrettable that the heroes of the book lost their personal voice as the tragedy unfolded. Though they were present, and wrote policy papers, we do not know what they privately thought of it.

Chapter XVIII is an attempt to see the “Mutiny” in historical perspective. This is the highlight of the book, and well worth studying. The view is balanced, and the case the author makes is plausible, nay convincing. India as a whole, not just sepoys, rebelled against British overbearance. It was a war of independencebthe Indians lost. The only aspect one misses is the increasing and interconnected role of missionaries and spouses from the UKv at the time of the events. Their attempt rashly to acculturate India to British imperial standards contributed much to the rebellion.
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One of the many beautifully illustrated Mavel comics expanding Stephen King's Dark Tower stories.

• Sales Rank: #3072516 in Books
• Published on: 2013
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Mostly Great
By J. Hill
The first issue of "Sheemie's Tale" did an incredible job chronicling Sheemie's involvement in matters of the Dark Tower. This second issue is intended to finish bridging the gap between Sheemie following Roland back to Gilead in Wizard and Glass and then showing up again in the final Dark Tower novel. The artwork again amazes me, and the narration by Sheemie continues to work well. The only detraction here stems from "expanded" material, as usual.

If you're looking for stunning Dark Tower artwork, this isssue has it. Taheen guards in Thunderclap, ancient Great Ones, the rise of the Tower from the Prim, the creation of the Beams and the depiction of their human-like ambassadors to mortals...get the idea? Some of the material here is breathtaking for a Dark Tower junkie. I'm fascinated by all of the drawings, including one of Sheemie transformed into a tentacled monstronsity of the Prim that is horrifying. If every issue had artwork like this...well, come to think of it, in the early days they did. C'mon, Marvel; get this train back on the tracks!

This brings me to my only complaint about this issue. Furth adds in some material where Sheemie escapes the man in black and falls into a river. At the bottom of this river, he sees...the ancient Great Ones from Dark Tower mythology? I'm always happy to see the outlandish illustrations of these creatures, but how does this even make sense? Thankfully, this excursion is used to explain the rise of the Tower and the receding of the Prim, setting up the Crimson King's grudge and the central conflict behind the entire series (again, stunning artwork on those scenes). Finally, Sheemie creates a "psychic spear" to escape the clutches of these beings, and is then visited by the entities representing the Beams. After this inspiring turn of events, Sheemie is simply scooped up out of the river by Marten in the form of a huge bird to be taken back into captivity, awaiting Roland's arrival in Dark Tower 7 to liberate him and the other Breakers.

It's always tough for me to swallow the additional material written into the comics. While I appreciate that it's all written with an attempt to stay in tune with King's novels, it almost always feels like fan fiction. And I'm not interested in fan fiction. All I've wanted from the beginning was a faithful adaptation of Stephen King's books, like Marvel delivered with the excellent series, The Stand. Instead, they've produced an uneven series that sometimes droops into mediocrity. "Sheemie's Tale" has undoubtedly been a highlight, but its flaws tell another story about unmet expectations.

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