The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London
Ivan Maisky and Gabriel Gorodetsky
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Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The...
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
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All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and...
The Bronze Horseman
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A magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY and...
Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962-1973
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Sean Connery began the sixties spy movie boom playing James Bond in Dr. No and From Russia with...
Lawrence Kasdan recommended Dr. Strangelove (1964) in Movies (curated)
A Sportsman’s Sketches
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The first work by Ivan Turgenev to attain wide attention, A Sportsman's Sketches is a collection of...
Awix (3310 KP) rated A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) in Movies
May 14, 2019
Not just a bad movie, but one which is only barely functional as a narrative - the various cartoony action set-pieces are competently slapped together, but the connective tissue of characterisation, plot exposition, and relationships is just not there. No wit, no subtext, no point.
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
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'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of...
It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive
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In "It's Only a Movie," the incomparable Mark Kermode takes us into the weird world of a life lived...