Recommendations from our site
“Charles Esdaile’s book, The Peninsular War is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the tragedy that inspired Goya’s ‘Disasters of War’.” Read more...
The best books on Goya and the art of biography
Janis Tomlinson, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
Our most recommended books
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On War
by Carl von Clausewitz -
The Art of War
by Sun Zi (also written in English as Sun Tzu) -
The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam -
Stalingrad
by Antony Beevor -
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler -
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Christopher Browning
