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Novelist Jim Thompson was a genius of hardboiled crime fiction: his books are lean and gripping, generally following a rugged, amoral, none-too-bright hero as he’s messed with by a sharp-witted woman with a lust for cash. This Martin Scorsese-produced, Stephen Frears-directed black comedy...
The book is set in the 1930s and 1940s, and, without overtly mentioning the war, you still have references to Hitler and the soldiers passing through the village.” Read more... The best books on Nigeria Helon Habila, Novelist Buy now Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People ...
Delving into the perilous world of espionage and political intrigue during World War II, Cédric Jimenez's The Man With the Iron Heart presented a thrilling cat-and-mouse game between Czech resistance fighters and Reinhard Heydrich (Jason Clarke) - architect of Hitler's Final Solution. Balancin...
As history goes around and around, the past has plenty to teach the present. Lutes knew that when he startedBerlin, but he didn’t know how relevant his book, which covers the titular city’s atmosphere in the years before Hitler became chancellor, would become. How did Nazism rise to po...
Your next choice is a two-volume biography of Hitler by Ian Kershaw. Ian Kershaw is a totally admirable historian. He is absolutely scrupulous. He does incredible research. His books have superb scholarship and breadth of knowledge as a result. But, above all, he has a clarity of thought ...
However, under Hitler’s Nazi Germany, the book was banned and burned, while even the US and its allies held reservations about the book due to its pacifist undertones. If you read just one book about World War I, AllQuiet On The Western Frontis a great choice. ...
who was born in Germany the year Hitler came to power and has escaped to New York along with her young daughter. Gesine is a news obsessive; everything interests her, and the book seeks to be a comprehensive account of the ’60s, commenting on media coverage of Vietnam, housing seg...
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