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  • Thus when a young poet named Lermontov wrote a popular poem about Pushkin that challenged the simple view and indicted the poets persecutors—"You, greedily crowded around the throne, / Executioners of Freedom, Genius, and Glory!"

    Czar-Crossed Writers Gary Saul Morson 2011

  • In this case, the book is The Executioners by John D. MacDonald.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2009 » May 2009

  • In this case, the book is The Executioners by John D. MacDonald.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2009 » May » 31 2009

  • This came out around the same time as Schindler's List, Hitler's Willing Executioners, and that whole nineties Holocaust revisitation, so reading it now it seems a bit pale.

    REading Update 2007

  • In this case, the book is The Executioners by John D. MacDonald.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » April 2009 Recommended Reading List 2009

  • This came out around the same time as Schindler's List, Hitler's Willing Executioners, and that whole nineties Holocaust revisitation, so reading it now it seems a bit pale.

    SeeLight: 2007

  • Probably MacDonald's best transfer to the silver screen was The Executioners, which was done twice, both times as Cape Fear.

    Shades of McGee Steve Perry 2009

  • In his landmark book, Hitler's Willing Executioners, Daniel Goldhagen argued that the grotesque atrocities of the Holocaust could not have been accomplished without the broad and even enthusiastic support of millions of average citizens who made the deaths of millions of others possible.

    Kenneth C. Davis: America's Willing Torturers 2009

  • In this case, the book is The Executioners by John D. MacDonald.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2009 » May 2009

  • And the public hardly shies away from hard-hitting books and movies on the subject: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's "" Hitler's Willing Executioners '' was a best-seller in Germany, and "" Schindler's List '' drew huge audiences.

    A Strange Affair 2008

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