The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I
7 best books like The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I (John Mosier): The Fall of Gondolin, Till We Have Faces, Under Enemy Colors, On Certainty, Letters from a Stoic, Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity, How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
| Author | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| ISBN | 1328613046 |
In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwë, chief of the Valar: he is called...
In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis reworks the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche into an enduring piece of contemporary fiction. This is the story of Orual, Psyche's embittered and ugly older sister, who posessively and harmfully loves...
| Author | Sean Thomas Russell |
| ISBN | 0399154434 |
In the tradition of Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower comes a new hero of the high seas-- Charles Hayden, lieutenant of the Themis.
Around the time of the French Revolution, Charles Saunders Hayden is one of Britain's most able naval officers, an ambitious young lieutenant born to an English...
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0061316865 |
Über Gewissheit = On Certainty, Ludwig Wittgenstein
On Certainty is a philosophical book composed from notes written by Ludwig Wittgenstein over four separate periods in the eighteen months before his death on 29 April 1951. He left his initial notes at the home of Elizabeth Anscombe, who linked...
| Author | Seneca |
| ISBN | 0140442103 |
The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were in conflict with his Stoic beliefs. Nevertheless he was the outstanding figure of his age. The Stoic philosophy which Seneca professed in his writings, later supported by Marcus Aurelius, provided Rome...
| Author | J.E. Lendon |
| ISBN | 0300119798 |
What set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire, J. E. Lendon surveys a millennium of warfare to discover how militaries change—and don’t change—and how...
How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
| Author | Alan Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0451499603 |
How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume - but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life.
As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan Jacobs...
