From 1949 to 1991 the world was overshadowed by the Cold War. Repeatedly it seemed that in days, even hours, global nuclear conflict would sweep away much of the United States, the Soviet Union & Europe. They would be obliterated in what President Carter described as 'one long, final & very bleak afternoon'. When the Cold War ended, the Warsaw Pact was wound up & the vast military forces which had flourished for over forty years were disbanded. As with all wars, however, it was only then that the realities of what had been involved began to emerge; indeed, much has remained hidden until now. In The Cold War, David Miller discloses not only the vast scope of the military resources involved, but also how nearly threat came to terrible reality. Most chillingly of all, he reveals that while the menace of nuclear war predominated, it was actually little understood even by the experts. The book examines each military area in turn, covering the formation of the two great alliances, & the strategies & major weapons in the rival navies, armies & air forces. That the Cold War ended without a conflict was due to professionalism on both sides. The result, Miller suggests, would have impressed the Chinese military strategist, Sun Tsu, who, writing in the fifth century BC, said that 'to subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill'. ...

The Living Room. The Potting Shed. The Complaisant Lover. Carving a Statue. The Return of A. J. Raffles. The Great Jowett. Yes & No. For Whom the Bell Chimes In these eight plays Graham Greene, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, demonstrates his considerable skills as a dramatist. Each of them explores themes that were of fundamental importance to Greene, & together they exhibit a daring wit & an exhilarating sense of experiment. ...

The Living Room. The Potting Shed. The Complaisant Lover. Carving a Statue. The Return of A. J. Raffles. The Great Jowett. Yes & No. For Whom the Bell Chimes.
In these eight plays Graham Greene, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, demonstrates his considerable skills as a dramatist. Each of them explores themes that were of fundamental importance to Greene, & together they exhibit a daring wit & an exhilarating sense of experiment.
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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is celebrated as a novelist & man of action. He is perhaps most famous for WHOM THE BELL TOLLS & A FAREWELL TO ARMS. But he was equally prolific as a writer of short stories which touch on the same themes as the novels: war, love, the nature of heroism, reunciation, & the writer's life. The present collection

Includes:: all Hemingway's shorter fiction arranged chronologically from ' Up in Michigan' (1923) to ' Old Man at the Bridge (1938) & contains stories not currently available in any other UK edition of Hemingway's work's

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The new expanded Everyman edition of Pushkin's prose fiction contains all his mature work. In addition to ' The Captain's Daughter' & ' The Tales of Belkin', the volume now

Includes:: many more short pieces & ' The History of Pugachev', a vivid account of an eighteenth-century Russian rebellion. Pushkin's prose tales are the foundation stones of Russian literature. They made possible the great achievements of Dostosvsky, Tolstoy & Chekhov. But they are also, of course, brilliant & fascinating in their own right. At this volume makes clear, Pushkins is one of the world's great story-tellers' direct, dramatic, tender, with the author 's voices always peruasively present. Paul Debreceny's highly acclaimed translation was first published in 1983. The Everyman edition is published to coincide with the Bicentenary of Pushkin's birth on 26th May 1999.

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Poet, artist & mystic Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon & emigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiece, The Prophet, a book of poetic essays written in his youth, has sold over eight million copies in more than twenty languages since its first publication in 1923. But all Gibran ...

During the 1970s & the early 1980s Peter Ackroyd wrote countless book reviews & articles for the Spectator, on literature, film & a number of social & cultural issues. The collection offers a selection of these incisive & entertaining pieces, which established Ackroyd's reputation as a writer. Since 1986, Ackroyd has been chief book reviewer for The Times, & in this capacity he has reviewed some of the most important biographies & novels published over the last fifteen years. A selection of his Times reviews are included here. These reviews, & his articles for the Sunday Times display his characteristic attitudes to literature & art. They also throw interesting lights on his own work as a prize-winning novelist & biographer. The Collection also contains a number of Ackroyd's interesting & provocative lectures on ' The Englishness of English literature', ' London Luminaries & Cockney Visionaries' & ' William Black, a Spiritual Radical'. In addition, several essays on subjects such as Ackroyd's own writing & contemporary painters such as Frank Auerbach have been included. Finally, three of Ackroyd's short stories have been reproduced, one of which was his first published work of fiction. The Collection is a revealing & fascinating anthology of Ackroyd's ideas & preoccupations. As such, it is the ideal companion volume to his novels & biographies. With the exception of five pieces, none of the writing contained in this volume has ever been collected: The Collection also contains much previously unpublished material. ...

During the 1970s & the early 1980s Peter Ackroyd wrote countless book reviews & articles for the Spectator, on literature, ...