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There is a great irony that we live on a planet which is two thirds covered in water, yet millions of people around the globe live in areas ...

The 1970s was an important era of transition for Hollywood. It marked the time when the blockbuster summer film came to the for, making t...

Few novels can be as responsible for fundamentally changing the outlook of its readers as Dalton Trumbo's classic anti-war story, "...

Marcus Rediker is one of two historians of the “ Revolutionary Atlantic ”. Along with Peter Linebaugh , he co-authored one of the best acco...

There is a danger with books of archaeology, particularly those that are about sites like Pompeii, where we know alot about the day to day l...

The complex relationships at the heart of big business have been a theme in earlier works by Iain Banks, though in "The Steep Approach ...

The events of the 1926 British General Strike aren’t an issue for abstract historical discussion; they are, more importantly, an example of...

I don’t normally carry reviews of journals that I read on this blog, as they don’t really fit the general theme of the site. However the Jul...

When I first looked at this book, I thought that it was a classic case of a journalist with a bit of knowledge about one part of the world, ...

Something struck me towards the end of this classic crime novel - no one in James Ellroy's world is "good". Everyone has a fla...

Early on in this new book on the Taj Mahal, the author makes the point that the building has reached a level of recognition in the popular c...

There is an oft quoted rhetorical question from Monty Python's Life of Brian, which goes something like "So, apart from the aquedu...

How was it that Winston Churchill described the former Soviet Union? "A riddle wrapped up in an enigma". That is a very good desc...

This, the most recent addition to Bookmarks' "Rebel's Guide" series, is slightly different than the earlier books. Rather ...

The title Conquered City is a multi-layered one. It refers, in the most, to the great city of St. Petersberg, conquered in the first success...

Cuba is an enigma for many people. For some, it is a socialist country, dedicated to the world revolution. For others it is simply a beautif...

One of my favourite science fiction novels, is Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. His book imagines the way the world develops as the an u...

For all revolutionaries, being able to imagine a future society is very important. This isn't simply because we need to have something t...

There is a narrow sub-genre of Science Fiction that I love - archaeologists in space I like to know it as - this is the type of Science Fict...

The aftermath of the Second World War brought a plethora of memoirs of wartime experiences. Popular amongst these where books about the exp...