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Matthew’s 2025 Year in Books
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The Devils of Cardona
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2016
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الدين والدم: إبادة شعب الأندلس
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2009
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15 editions
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Black Sun Rising
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2020
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The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism
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2007
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Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent
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2012
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10 editions
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Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War
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2015
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4 editions
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The Savage Frontier: The Pyrenees in History and the Imagination
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2018
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My Father's House: In Search of a Lost Past
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2014
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Darwin’s Savages: Science, Race and the Conquest of Patagonia
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Battle Scars (16pt Large Print Edition)
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Writing in Dark Times
Last week I turned seventy - three score and ten. There was a time when I couldn’t even begin to imagine what it would feel like to be this old. Looking forward, seven decades on earth seem like an impossibly distant landmark. In retrospect, those decades seem to have passed in a flash. As Constantine Cavafy once put it:
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"Read for a book group And wanted to like it as it's a classic anti-war book and is so famous. Unfortunately I couldn't get into it fully. I appreciate its anti war stance, and the device of aliens looking down in dismay, possibly, on the Earthlings a"
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"A part of Dutch history I didn't know, (but which I feel I should have) added a much needed extra dimension. I won't give spoilers though! The second narrative voiced section was much more engaging than that of 'Isabel'. I think that listening to thi"
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| Really haunting and powerful novel from the author of the brilliant Stoner. The two books couldn’t be more different - except for their common themes of futility and disappointment. The first is a seemingly ‘small’ but ultimately moving story about a ...more | |
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| Thought-provoking and engaging study of a philosopher and thinker whose ideas seem constantly relevant to the mess we’re in. Stonebridge is not blind to Arendt’s failings, but her clear-eyed analysis of her strengths makes you want to go and seek out ...more | |
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| This short memoir of imprisonment under the Pinochet dictatorship hasn’t been published in English, but it should be. It has no literary pretensions and is totally devoid of artistry. But it ranks in some ways with Victor Serge’s Men in Prison as a n ...more | |
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| Really haunting and powerful novel from the author of the brilliant Stoner. The two books couldn’t be more different - except for their common themes of futility and disappointment. The first is a seemingly ‘small’ but ultimately moving story about a ...more | |
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| A personal travelogue and an extraordinarily-detailed treasure trove of information on the Atacama Desert. The meandering narrative does require patience, but the journey - for anyone interested in the Atacama - is worth it. | |
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| Powerful and often heartbreaking compilation of writing on the crimes committed by the Pinochet regime in the Chilean town on Pisagua, on the edge of the Atacama Desert. | |
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| Searing account of the violence supported, sponsored and exported by the United States during the Cold War, from Indonesia to Brazil and Chile. Through firsthand reporting, interviews with survivors and historical inquiry, Bevins shows how the horrif ...more | |
“even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers . . . as far as I know, all the fighting men of our army want peace; and it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated (friend or foe), that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.”
― Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War
― Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War
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