Australia, A History
This history of Australia, aiming at a general audience, is well written and gives a positive view of the incredible history of Australia. Abbott doesn’t shy away from the ugly and shameful events that...
History, Contemporary
O Jerusalem!
After rigorous research, the authors offer a panorama of the historical events—most of them military—that between 1947 and 1948 led to the creation of the State of Israel. The text seeks to maintain...
Indignity. A life reimagined
An excellent novel. An autobiographical novel, the Albanian writer and professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics turns to the archives of the Albanian security services to reconstruct...
Rasputin. And the Downfall of the Romanovs
The figure and personality of the semi-illiterate Siberian peasant Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin—who becomes a starets (holy man) and comes to dominate the will of the tsarina and, through her, the tsar—is a...
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell came to fight in Spain convinced that fascism was the great enemy at that historical moment (and convinced that what he was fighting in Spain was fascism). He recounts his experiences in a...
Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature
An interesting and gripping account of the difficulties faced by many Central European intellectuals, Jews, and opponents in escaping Nazism. Many fled at the beginning, with Hitler’s rise to power in 1933...
The Spirit of the Oxford Movement
In The Spirit of the Oxford Movement, Christopher Dawson offers a clear and engaging look at the rise of the Oxford Movement, a religious phenomenon that sought to revitalize the Church of England during a...
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Max Hastings is a distinguished journalist and historian of 20th-century conflicts, mostly of World War II.
This is his first book on World War I. It deals with the months from the beginning of the...
The Director
Kehlmann reconstructs the professional life of the Austrian film director G. W. Pabst, one of the key figures of silent cinema who later successfully adapted to sound film. A contemporary and friend of the...
Industry of lies
Yemini, a Jewish journalist, is concerned about the handling of news in media outlets that are usually hostile to Israel, which is accused of being genocidal and imperialist. He repeatedly questions the...