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This is rather an unashamedly sentimental novel. Set in the last decades of the 19th century and progressing into the early quarter of the...

This is a useful and readable introduction to the Marxist understanding of history - or Historical Materialism as it is better know. Beginni...

The British landscape is far from natural. Almost nothing that we see as our cars and trains cross the countryside is natural in a truely ...

The basis to William Cronon's study of the impact of the arrival of colonists to New England is that the "replacement of Indians ...

Oliver Rackham's history of the countryside is a remarkable book. It is also an unusual and slightly odd book. It's oddity stems n...

There is a large part of me that never really got into comics. Partly this was due to a slightly snobbish, middle class attitude that my hav...

This short volume by Leon Trotsky is an undisguised polemic. Written in 1924, in the aftermath of a series of failed revolutions across Euro...

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Farrell's book The Siege of Krishnapur and this earlier book of his does not disappoint either. Apparently ...

It is rare that I express disappointment with a book. Usually I am aware enough of the contents to feel that I know what I am about to read,...

E. P. Thompson's monumental work of history of the development and shaping of the English working class almost defies review. After al...

The processes that led to the start of the Second World War are ones that have been examined and debated enormously. The battle lines in t...

Iain M Banks' latest culture novels is somewhat of a return to form, though it still suffers somewhat from the bloated feel of his more ...

I first developed an interest in the Russian revolutionary Nikolai Bukharin after I read an account of his show trial by Fitzroy Maclean in ...

Depsite how we in the modern world might view agriculture, it is more than simply another branch of industry. For those of us living in the ...

Part two of Sassoon's fictionalised autobiographical account of his early life reads much more lifelike than his earlier account of hunt...

Eon - Classic SF "Big Dumb Object" Greg Bear's classic science fiction novel Eon , is seen as one of the all time great nov...

This is a book that really shouldn't work for me. My only experience of horse-riding was one of abject terror followed by a vow to never...

Revolutions these days seem two a penny. Mass strikes and protests did for Tunisia's dictator Ben Ali in what seemed like a few days. Eg...

Capitalism is very adept at taking old traditions, remoulding and repackaging (and occasionally reinventing) them in its own interests. Thes...

Antony Beevor's latest book is an excellent addition to his earlier works, particular those on the battles for Stalingrad and Berlin. ...