What makes a great city great? Much admired historian, travel writer and television personality John Julius Norwich lends his considerable skills to editing The Great Cities in History a compilation of work by his colleagues. It celebrates the complexity and customs of each city and its citizens who helped define its identity and contributed to [...]

You really couldn’t invent this stuff…it would have to be true. It is a titillatingly terrific tale of derring do about the man who never was. Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II is all about the gaggle of gifted English eccentrics, slippery foreign agents, and Spanish and [...]

This is comic-quest memoir mixed with ‘extreme’ movie criticism and laced with film trivia as well as celebrity interviews as author Michael Adams examines Showgirls, Teen Wolves and Astro Zombies With another year drawing to close, film critic Michael Adams found himself making an unusual New Year’s resolution: in the next 12 months, he would [...]

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