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May 12, 2020 · This book expertly captures Barcelona at the turn of the 20th century, as it transformed itself from a mediaeval warren into a booming, modern city.
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Jul 7, 2020 · The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. This novel is book #1 in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (books #2, #3, and #4 are next on this list). In the period just after the Spanish Civil War, readers follows a young boy living in Barcelona, Daniel Sempere.
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Sep 26, 2018 · Gijón, Asturias’ most populous city, is best known for its immense coastline and postindustrial decay and is often overshadowed by the regional capital, Oviedo. But Julián Ayesta, a career diplomat who at one point was Spain’s ambassador to Yugoslavia, paints a different portrait of the city of his youth in Helena, or the Summer Sea. His ...
- The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman (1962) Tuchman’s survey of the opening month of the war, particularly its nerve-shredding account of the German march through Belgium and France, remains as fresh today as when it was first written in 1962.
- A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro (2014) Geoffrey Wawro’s explosive study of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its road to the “mad catastrophe” of 1914 became an instant classic when it was published for the centenary.
- The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson (2009) A stunning, lyrical portrait of the Italian Front. Mark Thompson’s White War offers an unrivalled insight into the oft-forgotten war in north-east Italy that took place in some of the most inhospitable and difficult locations in the history of warfare.
- The First World War, Volume One: To Arms by Hew Strachan (2001) The first volume of a planned trilogy on the history of the First World War, Strachan’s To Arms is a monumental work of scholarship and synthesis.
May 24, 2018 · “The first great book on war in all its aspects, and still one of the best.” On War (1832) by Carl von Clausewitz “On War represents the most ambitious effort ever made by a theorist of human conflict to systematize war and understand it for what it is.” “Absolutely essential for understanding the human phenomenon of war.”
Sep 29, 2021 · 1. Legends of Guatemala. Legends of Guatemala was the opera prima of Miguel Ángel Asturias. It is a narration of the myths and legends of Guatemala reflecting all of the author’s knowledge about prehispanic civilizations and traditions. This spoken word book is a reflection of the collective memory and mixed cultures of Miguel’s native land.
Apr 29, 2020 · 1. The Guns of August. By Barbara Tuchman. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the Modern Library's top 100 nonfiction books of all time, this is the definitive history of the first 30 days of the war—a month that set the course of the entire conflict. Tuchman brings a novelist's flair to her subject, from the spectacle of King Edward VII ...
