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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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Black Sun Rising
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2020
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9 editions
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The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism
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2007
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16 editions
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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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2 editions
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My Father's House: In Search of a Lost Past
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2014
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The Emperor of Seville (The Bernardo de Mendoza Mysteries Book 2)
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Darwin’s Savages: Science, Race and the Conquest of Patagonia
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Darkness (In)Visible
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were punctuated by high-profile assassinations and bombings carried out by lone anarchists, in what was effectively the first historical manifestation of ‘international terrorism.’ These ‘propagandists of the deed’ believed that individual acts of heroic violence could inspire their would-be constituencies to rebellion, whilst also striking ter
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| A searing personal exploration of slavery and its legacies in America and Africa. Combining memoir, personal reflection and penetrating historical judgment, Saidiya Hartman recounts her journey to Ghana as a Fulbright Scholar ‘desperate to reclaim th ...more | |
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| I love Leonardo Sciascia’s books, and I also loved Caroline Moorhead’s Village of Secrets, so this was a must-read and it didn’t disappoint. Moorhead does a superb job, tracing Sciascia’s life and work against the background of Sicilian history and t ...more | |
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| A brilliant collection of essays on ‘marginal places’ in the US, Ukraine and Russia from the author of A Biography of No Place. Brown is a humane and observant writer, a Russian speaker with a deep knowledge of the Ukrainian-Polish borderlands In thi ...more | |
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| Quirky, colourful and thoroughly entertaining account of Hapsburg Spain’s rise to political and cultural greatness in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The second half impressed me less, with its in-depth analysis of Don Quixote and Valázquez, ...more | |
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| Fearsomely gripping and quite staggering novel about the dark legacies of the Argentinian dictatorship, and one young woman’s search for her stolen identity. I picked it up in a local bookshop and could barely put it down. Osorio effortlessly juggles ...more | |
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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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“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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