The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II

7 best books like The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II (Gert Ledig): Diamonds Are Forever, Grand Hotel, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, Adventures of Sindbad, Shakespeare, The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society, Alles umsonst

Diamonds Are Forever

Author	Ian Fleming
ISBN	0142002054

"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with a man. In any event, since it’s your check, I’m going to have caviar, and what the English call 'cutlets,' and some pink champagne. I don’t often date a good-looking Englishman and the dinner’s...

Grand Hotel

Author

Vicki Baum

Cruel Berlin. Cruel loneliness.

Weimar Germany, March 1929, shortly before the economic crisis. Flipping in through the revolving doors, Austrian author Vicki Baum (1888 1960) draws the reader into the lobby of the ‘Grand Hotel’ – the archetype of which is so sumptuously conveyed...

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Author	Tom Holland
ISBN	0385513119

In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East,...

Adventures of Sindbad

Author	Gyula Krúdy
ISBN	9639116122

In these marvellously written tales, Sindbad, a voyager in the realms of memory and imagination, travels through the centuries in pursuit of an ideal of love that is directed as much at the feminine essence as at his individual lovers. Whether the women he seduces and loves are projections of his desire,...

Shakespeare

Author	Mark Van Doren
ISBN	1590171683

This legendary book by an esteemed poet and beloved professor at Columbia University features a series of smart, witty, deeply perceptive essays about each of Shakespeare's plays, together with a further discussion of the poems. Writing with an incomparable knowledge of his subject but without...

The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society

Author	Lionel Trilling
ISBN	0151511977

The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling's essays...

Alles umsonst

Author	Walter Kempowski
ISBN	3813502643

Winter, January 1945. It is cold and dark, and the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and on foot. But in a rural East Prussian manor house, the wealthy von Globig family tries to seal itself off from the...