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California Literary Review
Great Britain Like its predecessor, The Victorians, this book is a portrait of an age, rather than a formal history. After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 609 pp. CLR [rating:4] An Empire Lost Like its predecessor, The Victorians, this book is a portrait of an age, rather than a formal history. It takes the story of Britain and her place in the world, from 1901 to the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
California Literary Review
Biography Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was one of the foremost architects of espionage fiction as it exists today. Like his predecessor Somerset Maugham, Ambler sought to transform the genre from the verbal banality and minimal characterizations of authors William Le Queux and Edward Oppenheim to a more sophisticated, morally ambiguous world of deception and danger. Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was one of the foremost architects of espionage fiction as it exists today.
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Biography Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a tale of adventure with the reality of Britain’s imperial overreach thus beginning a genre that – as continued by the likes of Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and John le Carré – has matured into one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the literate world.
California Literary Review
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic Knopf, 304 pp. CLR [rating:4] A Measure of Achievement “The foundation of our empire was not laid in the gloomy age of ignorance and suspicion, but at an epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.” And with this quote from George Washington, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis begins to help us contemplate the times in a bit more detail.
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France In twelve short years – from 1788 to 1800 – the world changed, with the late eighteenth century emerging as one of the most momentous, if restless, eras in human history. In Russia, a great dynasty would be toppled; in France, revolution and the guillotine would hold sway; and, in America, the nascent democracy would enter the most critical period of its short existence. The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 HarperCollins, 688pp.
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History As contemplated by Ferling, few, if any, colonial Americans escaped the impact of hostilities. Wars were frequent and while many men soldiered, many of these same soldiers died. Still others, the least fortunate in some respects came home from the wars, but not in one piece, physically or mentally. Nor were those who bore arms alone in experiencing the terrors of war.
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Great Britain …essentially, the book remains a story of British upper classes and the author has seemingly trawled an impressive body of memoirs and biographies so as to bring to life any number of entertaining, if gossipy personal vignettes.
California Literary Review
The Yorkists Hambledon & London, 200 pp. CLR [rating:4] Winters of Discontent “Now is the winter of our discontent…Made glorious summer by this sun of York.” So wrote William Shakespeare in his 1594 play, Richard III. To be sure, the fifteenth century was one of the most politically unstable periods in English history and most modern readers’ view of the period is heavily colored by Shakespeare.
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Great Britain The story of modern Britain – at least one of the stories – begins some three hundred years ago with the 1707 Treaty of Union between England and Scotland. The Union: England, Scotland And the Treaty of 1707 Birlinn Limited and Interlink Publishing Group, 342 pp.
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Biography But, even more importantly, he also struck the first modern note in the evolution of the genre with respect to the degree of personal doubt and insecurity that over-shadows the mission – the same note, albeit greatly amplified, that is found in the novels of such well-known successors as Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, and John Le Carré, whose spy stories may be correctly seen, in part at least, as a continuance of John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet.
California Literary Review
Biography Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a tale of adventure with the reality of Britain’s imperial overreach thus beginning a genre that – as continued by the likes of Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and John le Carré – has matured into one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the literate world. Like this: Like Loading...
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History Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had generated a large body of political knowledge that undermined the medieval worldview about government, society, and even human nature itself.
The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik
Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky, Translated by Sandra Smith Knopf, 160 pp. CLR [rating:4] Proust Redux By the time Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française burst upon the French literary world in 2004, the Russian-French author was forgotten. Despite her pre-World War II Parisian success with her dazzling first novel, David Golder, and following it, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, Dogs and Wolves and The Courilof Afffair, her name together with her person had pretty much faded away.
Almost a Miracle by John Ferling
Village of Saracinesco, Italy Call me a poor sort of tourist, but I have seen enough of the ruins of imperial palaces on the Palatine hill. For one thing, the sun gets hot and there is no shade; nor have I ever been able to conjure up in my mind, no matter how good a guide I have along, just what the place must have looked like before Constantine got angry with the Romans and moved east in the year 327.
The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson
[Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from William Dalrymple’s new book The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857.] Since they had finally succeeded in conquering and subduing the Sikhs in 1849, the British at last found themselves the masters of South Asia: every single one of their military rivals had now been conquered—Siraj ud-Daula of Bengal in 1757, the French in 1761, Tipu Sultan of Mysore in 1799, and the Marathas in 1803 and again, finally, in 1819.
The Yorkists by Anne Crawford
[Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from William Dalrymple’s new book The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857.] Since they had finally succeeded in conquering and subduing the Sikhs in 1849, the British at last found themselves the masters of South Asia: every single one of their military rivals had now been conquered—Siraj ud-Daula of Bengal in 1757, the French in 1761, Tipu Sultan of Mysore in 1799, and the Marathas in 1803 and again, finally, in 1819.
The Union: England, Scotland And the Treaty of 1707 – by Michael Fry
John Buchan, c1936 A certain great European power makes a hobby of her spy system, and her methods are not too particular. Since she pays by piecework her blackguards are not likely to stick at a murder or two.
The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet
John Buchan, c1936 A certain great European power makes a hobby of her spy system, and her methods are not too particular. Since she pays by piecework her blackguards are not likely to stick at a murder or two.
After the Victorians by A.N. Wilson
After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World by A.N. Wilson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 609 pp. CLR [rating:4] An Empire Lost Like its predecessor, The Victorians, this book is a portrait of an age, rather than a formal history. It takes the story of Britain and her place in the world, from 1901 to the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Though it is as long a book as the last one, I am even more conscious as I finish it of the omissions.
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