New York: Grove Press / Grove Atlantic, 2001. Until his death in 2000, Artyom Borovik was considered one of the preeminent journalists in Russia. With The Hidden War he provided the world its first glimpse inside the Soviet military machine, capturing the soldiers’ terror, helplessness, and despair at waging war..... More
New York: Fawcett World Library, 1959. Reprint. Mass-market paperback. A Fawcett Crest Book 1921. The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpassed account of D-Day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2013. Julian Simons. Paperback. "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it." Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in..... More
New York: Other Press, 2006. Jeremy Diamond (cover design). First English Edition. First Printing. Paperback. "To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirk–it is part of being a moral adult." –Susan Sontag In the late 1990s..... More
New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2017. Rainer J. Hanshe (tr.), Stuart Kendall (intro.). First Edition. Paperback. Originally published in Algiers in 1943, Joseph Kessel's Army of Shadows is one of the first books to have been written about the French Resistance. Now available in paperback, Contra Mundum Press is proud..... More
New York: Harper Perennial, 2017. Movie Tie-in Edition. Paperback. From a childhood survivor of the Camdodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit—now a...... More
London: Penguin Books, 2020. Richard Pevear (tr.), Larissa Volokhonsky (tr.). Reprint. Paperback. What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to..... More
London: 4th Estate, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. ‘The Things They Carried’ is, on its surface, a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it..... More
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