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Hemingway on War

Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway witnessed many of the seminal conflicts of the twentieth century, as a Red Cross...

Sweet Thames Run Softly

Robert Gibbings

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In 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, Robert Gibbings launched his home-made punt on the...

The Art of Influence: Asian Propaganda

Mary Ginsberg

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In revolutionary and wartime societies, propaganda is considered a vital part of education and...

A Yankee Ace in the RAF: The World War I Letters of Captain Bogart Rogers

John Morrow and Earl Rogers

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Suffused with the romance of flight and the harsh realities of aerial combat, Rogers's letters to...

Victory: Book 3

Carla Jablonski and Leland Purvis

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The final installment in Carla Jablonski's Sydney Taylor Honor-winning Resistance trilogy. World War...

The Vitamin Murders: Who Killed Healthy Eating in Britain?

James Fergusson

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How can it be that the British ate better, nutritionally speaking, during the rationing years of...

William Finnegan recommended Homage to Catalonia in Books (curated)

"""Among all of Orwell’s great unflinching reportage, this book stands out as a personal odyssey and first-person witness to history. He went to Spain in 1936, during the civil war there, to help fight Fascism. He joined a leftist militia and found himself targeted not only by Franco’s forces but by Stalinists intent on crushing anyone not toeing the Moscow line. Orwell’s descriptions of wartime Barcelona and impoverished rural Spain, his clear-eyed analysis of the shifting factions in the war, are triumphs of tender, hard-headed participant-observation. He was wounded at the front, shot through the throat by a sniper. His peerless moral grasp of the dangers of totalitarianism began in Spain."

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