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THE GARDENERS OF SALONIKA, by Alan Palmer. Salonika's gardeners were discarded tacticians sent off by World War I commanders in chief to dig trenches on the forgotten Macedonian front. But French General Franchet d'Esperey clearly recognized a strategic advantage and sent his neglected troops slicing toward the heart of Germany through the Balkans, thus hastening the Kaiser's downfall.
ESAU AND JACOB, by Machado de Assis. Machado is the Proust of fin de siècle Rio de Janeiro. His chronicle of old manners and old morals being swept away by new money has the fascination of a gossip column and the authenticity of a diary preserved in lavender.
NEVER CALL RETREAT, by Bruce Catton. Author Catton manages to milk fresh facts and fresh emotions from the oft-repeated tale of the Civil War's end. The heart of his book is a thorough analysis of what was at stake, morally and economically, at the close of 1864, and a review of the characters of Lincoln and Lee that reaffirms their place among the U.S.'s toughest and most realistic heroes.
WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. Because his novels reflected so clearly the injustices of Soviet dictatorship, Author Tarsis was unjustly committed to a mental asylum. In this bitter novel he outlines the misery of his fellow inmates.
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