Naples 44
A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
history
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Was the Trojan War real?
Yes and no—the no part being the plot and characters (and the big horse); the yes part being the city and the siege.
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New Yorker Hiroshima Issue
The entire contents of The New Yorker issue containing John Hersey's Hiroshima essay had an unfortunate cover illustration.
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The Captive Mind
Essays out of central Europe during the First Cold War by one of Poland's leading intellectuals.
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The Return
When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father went missing…
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Piketty argues that the rate of return on capital tends to be higher than the rate of economic growth.
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Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia begins with Orwell's arrival in Barcelona in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the civil war.
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The Colossus of Maroussi
The book chronicles Miller's experiences traveling through Greece in the late 1930s…
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A Contest for Supremacy
Examines the socioeconomic forces at play in US-China relations. I do not share the author's conclusion, but it's an engaging book.
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Desert Queen
The book provides a comprehensive account of Gertrude Bell's life, beginning with her privileged upbringing in a wealthy British family.
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor wrote Man's Search for Meaning in 1946.