The Poet Assassinated
7 best books like The Poet Assassinated (Guillaume Apollinaire): Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment, Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, The Guns of August, The Foundation Pit, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction, The Ubu Plays: Ubu Rex / Ubu Cuckolded / Ubu Enchained
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
| Author | Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston |
| ISBN | 0553272586 |
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp—with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton...
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
| Author | Margaret MacMillan |
| ISBN | 0375760520 |
'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever written about those fateful months after World War I when the maps of Europe were redrawn. Brimming with lucid analysis, elegant character sketches, and geopolitical pathos, it is essential reading.'
Between...
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started,...
| Author | Andrei Platonov |
| ISBN | 0810111454 |
We always believe that the bright future is just around the corner and we wait for it to come…
…on the face of each young Pioneer girl there remained a trace of the difficulty, the feebleness of early life, meagerness of body and beauty of expression. But the happiness of childhood friendship,...
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
| Author | Dave Grossman |
| ISBN | 0316191442 |
The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill. But armies have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. And contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army's conditioning techniques, and, according to Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's thesis,...
| Author | Alain Robbe-Grillet |
| ISBN | 0810108216 |
Alain Robbe-Grillet, one of the leaders of the new French literary movement of the sixties, has long been regarded as the outstanding writer of the nouveau roman, as well as its major spokesman. For a New Novel reevaluates the techniques, ethos, and limits of contemporary fiction. This is a work of immense...
| Author | Alfred Jarry |
| ISBN | 0802150101 |
"Merdre!" (in translation: "Pschitt!")The very first word uttered by Pa Ubu proved to be a bit too much for the sensibility of its audience and led to a riot. The incident has since then become one of the most talked about bits of Jarry's life.
The audience may not have taken their time to get to...
