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Paul Theroux's rail journeys are never less than epic. In this trip from the early 1970s, he leaves London one day, famously stating t...

People make history but the people who do so are often forgotten. Everyone learns the names of generals or kings in history, or even those...

First published in 1971, this novel must rapidly have become a classic of the Science Fiction genre. Despite some rather clunky dialogue in ...

This, the second part of Tony Cliff's four volume biography of  Leon Trotsky deals with the period that wo uld be most disputed perhaps ...

America's imperialist adventure in Vietnam shaped the world we live in today in many ways. The injustice of the most powerful nation in ...

I dug this book out, purely on the basis of a review written over at Pechorin's Journal . I concour with everything written there, and...

The Black Death decimated the population of the medieval world. The epidemic that hit Europe in the 1340s can be argued to have fundamentall...

The violent street demonstrations that took place in Thailand earlier this year didn't get the coverage in the Western media that they...

Those who know Arthur Ransome as the writer of the excellent childrens novels in the Swallows and Amazon's series are often amazed to le...

Rare is the detailed book on sport written by an avowed Marxist. Still less are books about, cricket, perhaps seen as the most establishment...

In his introduction to this famous traveller's tale, Arthur Ransome says that "A school library without this book is incomplete. I...

The second volume of Tony Cliff's biography of Lenin contains perhaps the most important political and historical period for socialist a...

It's a statement of the obvious, but revolutions change things. Most obviously a successful revolution changes the political and economi...

Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the CPGB The history of radical parties is always of interest to those trying to build radical organi...

Despite the impression given by countless Saturday afternoon war films, the Second World War and Hitler's dictatorship was ended by th...

The defeat of the British in Afghanistan in 1842 had far reaching implications. It caused shock at home - the political classes and the B...

This little book by Engels packs a hard punch. It is, in a few short pages, both a summary and a detailed explanation of the basics of Marxi...

Ever since the Russian Revolution there have been attempts to discredit those who led the revolutionary movement as being monsters, only int...

The number of books available on the Thames is immense - the bibliography of Peter Ackroyd's book contains at least 300. But it's wo...