Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection

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Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection

by Raymond Aron

Recommendations from our site

Our most recommended books

Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning

On War by Carl von Clausewitz

The Histories by Herodotus

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler

The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

Augustine of Hippo by Peter Brown

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Ordinary Men
by Christopher Browning

On War
by Carl von Clausewitz

The Histories
by Herodotus

Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

Augustine of Hippo
by Peter Brown