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Despite the rhetoric you hear from many of the leading politicians of the western world, and even from sections of the more liberal establi...

This Vietnam memoir follows Tim O'Brien from his basic training to his time on the front line in Vietnam. It finishes with his time in a...

Jules Verne was rather a prolific writer. Many of his novels have gone down in history as representing the hopes for a technological future....

One of the central arguments of Hassan Mahamdallie's introduction to the life and politics of William Morris, is that all to often he ...

These two essays from Chris Harman form one of the clearest and most accessible introductions to the question of history in Marxist thought ...

This is no doubt one of the classic books of working class history. First published in the early 1970s though, it's groundbreaking aspec...

The "Proud Tower" of Barbara Tuchman's title belongs to Edgar Allan Poe and from it "Death looks gigantically down"...

The sheer brilliance of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series for young adults has unjustly hidden his excellent other works. His ...

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...