Barcelona
10 best books like Barcelona (Robert Hughes): All That Is, Homage to Catalonia, The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation, Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950, The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, Iberia, Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and its Silent Past, Homage to Barcelona, Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
| Author | James Salter |
| ISBN | 1400043131 |
An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II.
From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II, Philip Bowman returns to America...
| Author | George Orwell |
| ISBN | 0156421178 |
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell is one of my favourite writers. 1984 and Animal Farm were game-changers for me when I first picked them up at 12 years old, and they fostered an interest in politics...
The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
| Author | Mark Kurlansky |
| ISBN | 0140298517 |
From Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and Birdseye—the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people.
Straddling a small corner of Spain and France in a land that is marked on no maps except their own, the Basques are a puzzling contradiction—they are Europe's...
| Author | Mark Mazower |
| ISBN | 0375727388 |
Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely...
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
| Author | María Rosa Menocal |
| ISBN | 0316168718 |
Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, María Menocal now brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years.The story begins as a young prince in exile—the last...
| Author | James A. Michener |
| ISBN | 0449207331 |
Here, in the fresh, vivid prose that is James Michener's trademark, is the real Spain as he experiences it. He not only reveals the celebrated Spain of bullfights and warror kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards; he also shares the intimate, often hidden Spain he has come to...
| Author | Giles Tremlett |
| ISBN | 0802715745 |
The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco’s death squads finally broke what Spaniards call “the pact of forgetting”—the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored....
| Author | Colm Tóibín |
| ISBN | 0330373560 |
This book celebrates one of Europe's greatest cities -- a cosmopolitan city of vibrant architecture and art, great churches and museums, intriguing port life and extravagant nightclubs, restaurants and bars. It moves from the story of the city's founding, and huge expansion in the nineteenth century,...
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
| Author | Russell Shorto |
| ISBN | 0385534574 |
An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World
Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals; student travelers know it for its legal...
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall Of Berlin 1945
Beevor's Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge is now available from Viking Books
To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony...
