Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan
8 best books like Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan (A.C. Grayling): All the President's Men, Under Fire, At the Mountains of Madness, Undertones of War, The Long Take, The Hunters, The Lady and the Little Fox Fur, The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries
| Author | Carl Bernstein |
| ISBN | 1416522913 |
This book was truly unbelievable. The entire time I was reading it, I kept reminding myself that this was real history and it all happened. There was so much drama in all the proceedings, and to realize that it’s the select few (in great positions) of the government beneath it all. I completely admire...
| Author | Henri Barbusse |
| ISBN | 0143039040 |
Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusse's novel is a powerful account of one of the greatest horrors mankind has ever inflicted on itself.
For the group of ordinary men in the French Sixth Battalion, thrown together from all over France and longing for home, war is simply...
At the Mountains of Madness
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 0812974417 |
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of...
| Author | Edmund Blunden |
| ISBN | 0141184361 |
In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele, describing the latter as...
| Author | Robin Robertson |
| ISBN | 1509846883 |
Walker, a young Canadian recently demobilised after war and his active service in the Normandy landings and subsequent European operations. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and unable to face a return to his family home in rural Nova Scotia, he goes in search of freedom, change, anonymity...
| Author | James Salter |
| ISBN | 0375703926 |
With his stirring, rapturous first novel--originally published in 1956 --James Salter established himself as the most electrifying prose stylist since Hemingway. Four decades later, it is clear that he also fashioned the most enduring fiction ever about aerial warfare.
Captain Cleve...
The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
| Author | Violette Leduc |
| ISBN | 0720612179 |
I am on the side of light hearts and light wallets; look over here, you too can be made of light. I never gave anything away, I deserve to be where I am.
Eleanor Rigby versus the Piano Man. The old man in Home Alone versus the bird lady in Home Alone 2. There is sentiment without being sentimental. To...
The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries
| Author | Alastair Campbell |
| ISBN | 0307268314 |
A revelatory account of Tony Blair’s tumultuous leadership, The Blair Years gathers extracts from the diaries of the man who knew him best: Alastair Campbell—Blair’s spokesman from 1994 to 2003, his press secretary, strategist, and closest confidant. It is a compelling chronicle of contemporary...
