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‘The Day Was Hot and Still… …’

Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan

by Edmund Morris


The End of the Golden Age

Einstein's German World

by Fritz Stern


The Case of Arthur Conan Doyle

Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle

by Daniel Stashower

Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes

by Stephen Kendrick


Goodbye to All That

Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism

by T.J. Clark


The Decline and Fall of Literature

In Plato's Cave

by Alvin Kernan

The Death of Literature

by Alvin Kernan

Literature: An Embattled Profession

by Carl Woodring

What's Happened to the Humanities?

edited by Alvin Kernan

The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline

by Robert Scholes

The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies

by Michael Bérubé

Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities

by John M. Ellis

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The Myth of Myths

Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India

by Wendy Doniger

The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth

by Wendy Doniger


The Ballad of Federico García Lorca

Lorca: A Dream of Life

by Leslie Stainton


The Eyptian Gamble

Pan-Arabism Before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question

by Michael Doran


Washington the Liberator

George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America

by Robert F. Dalzell Jr. and Lee Baldwin Dalzell


War at the Top

Guard of Honor

by James Gould Cozzens


The Advancement of Francis Bacon

Philosophical Studies c.1611-c.1619

by Francis Bacon, edited by Graham Rees

Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon

by Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart

Francis Bacon: The History of a Character Assassination

by Nieves Mathews

Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626

by B.H.G. Wormald

Francis Bacon

by Perez Zagorin


Always Time to Kill

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943

by Antony Beevor

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

by Christopher R. Browning

Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942

by David M. Glantz, with German translations by Mary E. Glantz

An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth-Century Warfare

by Joanna Bourke

The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam

by Bao Ninh

Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris

by Ian Kershaw

Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich

by Omer Bartov

The Iliad

by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles

The First World War

by John Keegan

The Pity of War

by Niall Ferguson

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