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The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China: A History (Paperback)

By David J. Silbey

$16.00

ISBN: 9780809030750

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Published: Hill and Wang - April 9th, 2013

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Culminating in 1900, the technologically superior European powers (and Japan) essentially helped themselves to rotting Qing Dynasty China, so arrogantly that a groundswell peasant army (surreptitiously supported by the Empress) finally attacked their crypto-colonizers, resulting in several battles, sieges and international diplomatic shenanigans. A great narrative of a major puzzle piece of the Great Game of empire and hegemony.

Gary

The Cineaste: Poems (Hardcover)

By A. Van Jordan

$26.95

ISBN: 9780393239157

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 1st, 2013

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Jordan's book lives in that ephemeral residual dreaminess left over from a just-seen movie, with unlikely mind-scenes, extrapolation and fantasy inspired by specific films and, in a wondrous central section, a poetic exploration of pioneer filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. Movies and poetics: a perfect symmetry.

Gary

The Iliad (Paperback)

By Homer, Robert Fagles (Translated by), Bernard Knox (Introduction by)

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ISBN: 9780140445923

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Published: Penguin Classics - July 1st, 1991

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The Odyssey is full of tales and adventures; the Iliad is one vast combat narrative centering on the psychopathic super-warrior Achilles and warfare jacked up by direct intervention of the gods. Fagles' translation vividly captures the gore, insanity and stark beauty of that most intense of human experiences.  2700 years old and still one of the greats.

Gary

The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South (Hardcover)

By Bruce C. Levine

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ISBN: 9781400067039

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Published: Random House - January 8th, 2013

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It's satisfying to dip into the ongoing stream of historical Civil War literature and be able to say "This is a good one!". Levine looks into the Confederacy's complex subcultures, classes and motivations and comes up with some fascinating fresh  insights, as well as succinct renderings of pertinent battles and campaigns.

Gary

The Tremor of Forgery (Paperback)

By Patricia Highsmith

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ISBN: 9780802145642

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Published: Grove Press - November 8th, 2011

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Highsmith goes deepest into her trademark amorality (the Tom Ripley books) and enters Graham Greene territory:exotic plot and  locale and unusual moral questions.  She also manages to catch that strange North African torpor familiar to readers of Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky.  Like a weird fever dream.

Gary

An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War (Paperback)

By J. Hoberman

$22.99

ISBN: 9781595588333

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Published: New Press - September 4th, 2012

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A delicious sociopolitical examination/rumination of the Cold War US via popular culture.  Though primarily a film critic, Hoberman has always put his reviews (even back when he was the Village Voice film critic) in a larger cultural context.  It lives up to the cover art!

Gary

The Second World War (Hardcover)

By Antony Beevor

$35.00

ISBN: 9780316023740

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Published: Little, Brown and Company - June 5th, 2012

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Beevor has written several excellent books about particular aspects of the war, and now his complete overview of the subject is  a superb addition to the latest generation of WW2 literature. He writes a compelling narrative and brings fresh insights and perspective and pulls it all together beautifully.

Gary

War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 (Hardcover)

By James M. McPherson

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ISBN: 9780807835883

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Published: University of North Carolina Press - September 17th, 2012

Huzzah!  A new book by the Pulitzer-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, my choice for the go-to one-volume history of the Civil War.  Here he treats the naval aspect of the conflict with the same compelling narrative style as Battle Cry, including blockade runners, extraordinary battles for dominance of the crucial Mississippi River and the total game-changing introduction of ironclads.
Gary

The Hollow Man: A Novel (Detective Nick Belsey Series #1) (Paperback)

By Oliver Harris

$14.99

ISBN: 9780062136718

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Published: Harper Paperbacks - October 23rd, 2012

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A straight-out-of-the-gate crime masterpiece by first-time author Harris.  Something about the UK produces knockout first  novels by crime writers - The Ghosts of Belfast; The Guards. This is another one.
Gary

Berlin Game (Paperback)

By Len Deighton

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ISBN: 9781402795145

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Published: Sterling - August 7th, 2012

Len Deighton (The Ipcress File) is the other cold war suspense master. This is the first of his Bernard Sampson trilogy, and it's as seedy and treacherous and wry and compelling as Le Carre's George Smiley Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy series. A welcome re-release of a classic trio.

Gary