DAVID WEBSTER

La antigua civilización maya se desarrolló con fuerza en los trópicos de Centroamérica durante más de dos milenios y produjo algunas de las obras artísticas y arquitéctonicas más hermosas del mundo. Despues, de forma misteriosa, se desvanecio, dejando tras de si un paisaje de ruinas sumidas en el silencio bajo el denso mato de la selva. ¿Que provoco esa ruina? Basandose en las recientes investigaciones arqueologicas y en la interpretacion de los jeroglificos, David Webster evalua las teorias y disipa los mitos que rodean a este polemico tema.

Dave Websters book is a counter-blast against the culturally accepted norm that spirituality is a vital and important factor in human life. Rejecting the idea of human wellbeing as predicated on the spiritual, the book seeks to identify the toxic impact of spiritual discourses on our lives. Spirituality makes us confused, apolitical and miserable - whether that spirituality is from conventional religious roots, from a new-age buffet of beliefs, or from some re-imagined ancient system of belief. Looking beyond this dismissal, the book looks towards atheistic existentialism, Theravada Buddhism and political engagement as a means to imagine what a post-spiritual world view could look like.

Paratrooper David Kenyon Webster jumped into the chaos of occupied Europe on D-Day, fighting his way through Holland and finally capturing Hitlers Eagles Nest. He was the only member of Easy Company to write down his experiences as soon as he came home from war.Webster records with visceral and sometimes brutal detail what it is like to take a bullet in the leg, to fight pitched battles capturing enemy towns, and to endure long periods of boredom punctuated by sudden moments of terror. But most of all, Parachute Infantry shows how a group of comrades entered the furnace of war and came out brothers.

Les mémoires de David Webster, inédites en France, forment un récit de guerre exceptionnel, digne des plus grands classiques du genre. Sans doute le seul étudiant en littérature d’Harvard à s’engager