The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse

Vicente Blasco Ibañez

Classic Fiction

The novel, first published in 1916, tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian

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1914 – 1918

The History of the First World War

David Stevenson

History

In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercus

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The Fall of Baghdad

Jon Lee Anderson

Non-fiction

For every great historical event, seemingly, at least one reporter writes an eyewitness account of such power a

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The Napoleonic Wars

1803 – 1815

David Gates

History

There is a mass of literature on Napoleon and his times, yet there are but a handful of scholarly works that se

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The Rising Sun

The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

John Toland

History

This Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanes

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The Later Middle Ages

1272-1485

Goerge Arthur Holmes

History

Professor Holmes also examines the politics of these years–the relations of the kings of England with neighbor

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The Cossacks

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Classic Fiction

To read Tolstoys early sketch, The Raid, and his first novel, The Cossacks, is to enter the workshop of a great

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War and Peace

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Classic Fiction

In Russias struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical c

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August 1914

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Non-fiction

In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into Eas

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Crimea

The Last Crusade

Orlando Figes

History

The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale—these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. L

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The Jugurthine War/The Conspiracy of Catiline

Sallust

History

The Conspiracy of Catiline (his first published work) contains the history of the memorable year 63. Sallust ad

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