London: Macmillan, 2012. First Edition. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author on title page. The Untold Story of Britain's First Female Special Agent of World War II In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her..... 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
UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. Peter Davison (ed.), Christopher Hitchens (intro.). Reissued Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Here, for the first time in one volume, are George Orwell's complete writings on the Spanish Civil War, an experience which had a profound effect on his life and work." "Homage to Catalonia, his passionate..... 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
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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