Atonement, Novel by Ian McEwan, 2001
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year- old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the […]
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Private Peaceful – Michael Morpurgo, 2003
A stunning edition of this modern classic of World War One, featuring an introduction by the author and insightful testimonies from soldiers. Told in the […]
The Nightingale, Novel by Kristin Hannah, 2015
The Nightingale is a historical fiction novel, written by Kristin Hannah and published in 2015. It tells the story of two sisters, just coming of […]
Otto: The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear – Tomi Ungerer, 1999
This is an autobiographical tale of a teddy bear named Otto. Otto is a German-born teddy bear. His first memories are of being stitched together […]
The Waste Land – T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land, written by legendary author T.S. Eliot is widely considered to be one of the greatest books of all time. This great classic […]
On Killing – Dave Grossman,1995
The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill. But armies have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. And contemporary civilian […]
Hiroshima – John Hersey
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey’s journalistic masterpiece, tells what […]
The Other Side Of Silence: Voices From The Partition Of India – Urvashi Butalia (GA LIB)
The Partition of India in 1947 caused one of the great human convulsions of history. The statistics are staggering. Twelve million people were displaced; a […]
Untold Story 1946 Naval Mutiny: Last War of Independence – Ghanshyam Datt Sharma, 2015
A number of books have been written on the 1946 Royal Indian Navy Mutiny but the true story of this historic event remains untold with […]
All Quiet on the Western Front, Novel by Erich Maria Remarque, 1929, WW I
All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. ‘In the West Nothing New’) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a […]