Russia at War

by Alexander Werth

Part history, part memoir, shrewd, lively, funny, descriptive – a brilliant book. It’s the best one-volume history of the war in Russia there is

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Literary Nonfiction » Memoir

Russia at War

by Alexander Werth

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Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov

Basil Street Blues
by Michael Holroyd

The Self-Aware Image: An Insight Into Early Modern Meta-Painting
by Victor Stoichita

The Zanzibar Chest
by Aidan Hartley

My Grandmother
by Fethiye Cetin

Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon
by Sir Henry Channon