Men at Arms
7 best books like Men at Arms (Evelyn Waugh): Of Human Freedom, The Eiger Sanction, A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement, The Levant Trilogy, Snark: A Polemic in Seven Fits (It's Mean, It's Personal, and It's Ruining Our Conversation), Crete: The Battle And The Resistance, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
| Author | Epictetus |
| ISBN | 0141192356 |
Το βιβλίο περιλαμβάνει τη νεοελληνική απόδοση έξι κειμένων επιλεγμένων από τις Διατριβές του Επίκτητου.
οι ήρωες του Επίκτητου στην Ελευθερία δεν...
| Author | Trevanian |
| ISBN | 1400098025 |
"Niceness is an overrated quality. Being nice is how a man pays his way into the party if he hasn't the guts to be tough or the class to be brilliant."
Jonathan Hemlock teaches art at a university, but the modest sum he makes teaching doesn't cover his extravagant habits. He is renovating a Gothic...
| Author | Anthony Powell |
| ISBN | 0226677141 |
Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill...
| Author | Olivia Manning |
| ISBN | 0141186453 |
As Rommel advances in wartorn Egypt, the lives of the civilian population come under threat. One such couple are Guy and Harriet Pringle, who have escaped the war in Europe only to find the conflict once more on their doorstep, providing a volatile backdrop to their own personal battles. The civilian...
Snark: A Polemic in Seven Fits (It's Mean, It's Personal, and It's Ruining Our Conversation)
| Author | David Denby |
| ISBN | 1416599452 |
What is snark? You recognize it when you see it -- a tone of teasing, snide, undermining abuse, nasty and knowing, that is spreading like pinkeye through the media and threatening to take over how Americans converse with each other and what they can count on as true. Snark attempts to steal someone's mojo,...
Crete: The Battle And The Resistance
| Author | Antony Beevor |
| ISBN | 0813320801 |
A riveting account of the fall of Greece, the Battle of Crete, and the Cretan Resistance, from the beginning of World War II to its end.
Nazi Germany expected its airborne attack on Crete in 1941 to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. Little did they know that the British, using Ultra...
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
THIS AFTERNOON IN NEW YORK CITY, AFTER A SUBWAY TRAIN LEFT THE PELHAM STATION AT 1:23 P.M., THE EVENTS OF THE DAY TOOK A TERRIFYING DETOUR… “You will all remain seated. Anyone who tries to get up, or even moves, will be shot. There will be no further warning. If you move you will be killed…” Four men,...
