Honoré de Balzac (20 May, 1799 – 18 August, 1850) - A French novelist and playwright known for his novels and short fictional stories and eye for detail...

The Israel/Palestine conflict, of course, can fill hundreds of books, but it goes to show the gray moral ambiguity of all the characters. ...

Tells of the events which lead to Patton successfully turning around a losing battle, and becoming the face of the US Army in the African campagn...

A fine book & a great choice of authors. I never realized the contribution of most of these authors to the world, as well as the significance of their stories...

Bruce Chatwin was a journalist, novelist, as well as a travel writer. His book, In Patagonia, established him in the travel book world...

The research the author did shine, and I’ve learned several things about Latvia, the region, the way Latvian Jews viewed the Soviets, and a bit of history...

The author tackles several important topics religion, anti-Semitism, coming of age, discovery, love, as well as family, and loyalty, are some of them...

The book focuses, primarily, on four remarkable soldiers and the heroics they achieved in saving the world from certain doom. Consisting of short biographies...

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Theodore H. White was a historian and journalist known for his reporting from China during World War II, as well as the series Making of the President...