Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia

6 best books like Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia (Max Egremont): And Quiet Flows the Don, The Art of Travel, In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947, Slow Horses, Excursion to Tindari

And Quiet Flows the Don

Author	Mikhail Sholokhov
ISBN	0460878905

And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Тихий Дон, lit. "The Quiet Don") is 4-volume epic novel by Russian writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. The 1st three volumes were written from 1925 to '32 & published in the Soviet magazine October in 1928–32. The 4th volume was finished...

The Art of Travel

Author	Alain de Botton
ISBN	0375725342

Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything...

In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History

Author	Stanley Stewart
ISBN	1592281060

Vivid, hilarious, and compelling, this eagerly awaited book takes its place among the travel classics. It is a thrilling tale of adventure, a comic masterpiece, and an evocative portrait of a medieval land marooned in the modern world. Eight and a half centuries ago, under Genghis Khan, the Mongols...

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947

Author	Christopher Clark
ISBN	0674023854

Iron Kingdom traces Prussia's involvement in the continent's foundational religious and political conflagrations: from the devastations of the Thirty Years War through centuries of political machinations to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, from the enlightenment of Frederick the Great...

Slow Horses

Author	Mick Herron
ISBN	1569479011

Slough House is a dumping ground for British intelligence agents who’ve screwed up a case in any number of ways—by leaving a secret file on a train or blowing a surveillance. River Cartwright, one such “slow horse,” is bitter about his failure and about his tedious assignment transcribing...

Excursion to Tindari

Author

Andrea Camilleri

Following the long-running success he has enjoyed on bestseller lists in Europe, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is now winning over American readers and critics alike as “one of the most engaging protagonists in detective fiction” (USA Today). Now, in Excursion to Tindari, Andrea Camilleri’s...