We live in a confusing world, and the international underpinnings of many countries and cultures are beginning to come apart in ways familiar to historians. On November 24, Turkish forces shot down a Russian military jet over what appeared to be Syrian airspace, re-igniting a conflict that raged on and off for 400 years. You […]
Catherine the Great is one of the most fascinating rulers in history—a monarch whose thirty-four-year reign brought Russia into the modern industrial world, whose affairs were the scandal of her court, and who truly embodied the ideals of the Enlightenment. In Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak you can enter the passionate, intimate, and treacherous world […]
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We are delighted for our four authors and their publishers that Publishers Weekly has selected these titles among their Top Ten “Best Books 2011” announced online this afternoon and in their Monday, November 7 print edition: PW Best Books 2011: The Top 10 The Devil All the Time by Daniel Ray Pollock (Doubleday) Take […]
