Period of relative peace between the Great Powers during which the British Empire became the global hegemonic power and adopted the role of a “global policeman”.Between 1815 and 1914, a period referred to as Britain’s “imperial century”, around 10,000,000 square miles of territory and roughly 400 million people were added to the British Empire
Nonfiction novel recounting the October 1967 March on the Pentagon written by Norman Mailer and published by New American Library in 1968. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction and the National Book Award in category Arts and Letters
Memoir of the early career of Fitzroy Maclean
16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccol Machiavelli as an instruction guide for new princes and royals
Novel by Stephen King about a time traveller who attempts to prevent the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on November 22, 1963 . It is the 60th book published by Stephen King, his 49th novel and the 42nd under his own name
Memoir on cricket written by the Trinidadian Marxist intellectual C. L. R. James, which he described as “neither cricket reminiscences nor autobiography”. It mixes social commentary, particularly on the place of cricket in the West Indies and England, with commentary on the game, arguing that what happened inside the “Boundary Line” in cricket affected life beyond it, as well as the converse
Thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.The novel received admiring reviews and praise when first published in 1971, and it received a 1972 Best Novel Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America
Autobiography of Dorothy Day, published in 1952 by Harper & Brothers
American statesman, who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
Novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin’s regime
