The Strange Death of Liberal England

Author	Ron Powers
ISBN	0743249011

Ron Powers’s tour de force has been widely acclaimed as the best life and times, filled with Mark Twain’s voice, and as a great American story.

Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his country's,...

Author	Eric Hobsbawm
ISBN	0679721754

Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences & cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War.
Illustrations
Preface
Overture
The centenarian revolution
An economy changes gear
The age of empire
The...

Author	Cecil Woodham-Smith
ISBN	0689706529

I don't usually write reviews because I feel I can never do the book justice. But for this one I'm going to try.
If I could give this book 10 stars, I would. Incredibly well-written, well organized, and obviously well researched.
I love reading biographies but I've often found the biographer...

Author	Bert Hölldobler
ISBN	3540520929

This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Hölldobler and Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology,...

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Carlos Baker

Because I’m a son of a bitch. -- Ernest Hemingway, late 1926.

Truly. The Hemingway that emerges in Carlos Baker’s mammoth (714 pages of small print, excluding notes) is virtually impossible to like, or even – it seems -- to pity (though that changes when it comes to his last feeble year...

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Antony Beevor

A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall Of Berlin 1945

Beevor's Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge is now available from Viking Books 

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony...