Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

Contents:
Cracked clay under the mounds
A pyre of papyrus
When books were dog cheap
An ark to save learning
Spoil of the conqueror
How to disobey Kafka
The twice-burned library
The paper brigade
To be burned unread
Sarajevo Mon Amour
Flames of empire
An obsession with archives
The digital deluge
Paradise lost?
Coda: Why we will always need libraries and archives