The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
10 best books like The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade (Cecil Woodham-Smith): Our Man in Havana, Washington: A Life, Richard III, The Mote in God's Eye, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, Oath of Gold, Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel, Beau Geste, The Parafaith War, Destiny's Road
| Author | Graham Greene |
| ISBN | 0140184937 |
Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction
First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates to this day. Conceived as one of Graham Greene's 'entertainments,'...
| Author | Ron Chernow |
| ISBN | 1594202664 |
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian Wars, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0192839934 |
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition recognizes the play's pre-eminence as a performance work: a perspective that informs every aspect of the editing. Challenging traditional practice, the...
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Good science fiction.
Robert A. Heinlein himself is quoted as saying something to the effect that this was the best science fiction novel he had ever read. I don’t know that I’d go that far, but this was very...
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
| Author | Tadeusz Borowski |
| ISBN | 0140186247 |
Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference...
| Author | Elizabeth Moon |
| ISBN | 0671697986 |
Paksenarrion-—Paks for short-—was somebody special. Never could she have followed her father's orders and married the pig farmer down the road. Better a soldier's life than a pigfarmer's wife, and so though she knew that she could never go home again, Paks ran away to be a soldier. And so began an...
Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel
| Author | John Scott |
| ISBN | 0253205360 |
Students reading Scott have come away with a real appreciation of the hardships under which these workers built Magnitogorsk and of the nearly incredible enthusiasm with which many of them worked." --Ronald Grigor Suny
A genuine grassroots account of Soviet life--a type of book of which...
| Author | P.C. Wren |
| ISBN | 0899681352 |
Questions of duty and decency as shield over a loved one are examined in this wonderful novel of adventure and friendship. Michael, Digby and John (the Geste brothers) run away to join the French Foreign Legion in Algeria after the "Blue Water" sapphire disappears and Lady Brandon (the aunt who has raised...
| Author | L.E. Modesitt Jr. |
| ISBN | 0812538943 |
Some bad ideas go back a long way and this one goes all the way back to the original home planet: Someone's god told them they had a right to more territory--so they figure they can take what they want by divine right. In the far future among the colonized worlds of the galaxy there's a war going on between the...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0812511069 |
Wide and smooth, the Road was seared into planet Destiny's rocky surface by the fusion drive of the powered landing craft, Cavorite. The Cavorite deserted the original interstellar colonists, stranding them without hope of contacting Earth.
Now, descendants of those pioneers have many...
