Here is a masterpiece of
historical narrative that stretches from the Ice Age to the Atomic Age,
as it tells the story of Europe, East and West.
Norman Davies captures
it all-the ri...Read more »
From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations.- What happened to th...Read more »
In his own book,
Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest
memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The
Second World War as "one of th...Read more »
In retrospect, it is apparent that the development of the atomic bomb was one of the great turning points in world history. In The Making of the Atomic Bomb,
the winner of the National Book Award an...Read more »
Don Quixote has become
so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become
a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho ...Read more »
Leo Tolstoy’s classic
story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world
literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his
magnificent heroi...Read more »