(4 of 4)
THE LAST BATTLE, by Cornelius Ryan. On Ryan's canvas, the fall of Berlin is painted with meticulous, methodical and frequently fascinating detail.
EARTHLY PARADISE, by Colette; edited by Robert Phelps. Colette (1873-1954) was the most important woman novelist that the French have produced in a century; this magnificent collection of her random reminiscences shows that she was just as important as a memoirist, a female Montaigne who drank the cup of folly till she tasted the dregs of wisdom.
THE DOCTOR IS SICK, by Anthony Burgess. Burgess' late-blooming agility as a humorist is evident in this 1960 novel, just now reaching the U.S. in the wake of his growing reputation.
1066: THE STORY OF A YEAR, by Denis Butler. Nine centuries ago, the Battle of Hastings cost King Harold II of England his kingdom and his life—a price, as Author Butler suggests in this excellent first book, that may have been dearer than England knew.
PAPA HEMINGWAY, by A. E. Hotchner. An account of Hemingway's saddest years, told by a friend who shared them.
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