The Sicilian Expedition Failure Athenian Arm Myriad of Fate
Peter Green analyzes the failed 415-413 BC Sicilian Expedition in dramatic prose, arguing Athens faced wheat and timber shortages, grain needs and metal imports. He details leadership clashes between Nikias and Alcibiades, outcomes in Syracuse, and the broader shift from Athenian progress to Spartan domination and eventual Greek subjugation.
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Syracuse
Green
Rome
Britain
Greece
Persia
Salamis
Plataia
Pericles
Alcibiades
Nikias
Sparta
Duty Honour Empire The life of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen
John Lord profiles Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen through eight decades of diaries and exploits from India Africa and Europe. The book mixes bold campaigns with eccentric humor and palace intrigue, presenting a vivid entertainable portrait of imperial adventure and personal contradictions.
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Richard Meinertzhagen
John Lord
Hutchison
Richard Einertzhagen
The Strangeness of Henry St John Bolingbroke
A compact political biography by H T Dickinson tracing Henry St John Viscount Bolingbroke from early power to exile. It argues Bolingbroke blended talent with flaws, shaping Hanoverian politics yet failing to govern, and situates him amid Marlborough, Walpole, and Jacobite events with balanced critique.
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Henry St John
Viscount
Bolingbroke
England
George I
James Stuart
Robert Walpole
Namier
Dickinson
Winston Churchill
Marlborough
John Morley
Lord Hervey
Ervey
Proxemics and body language reviewed by a critic
The reviewer digests Julian Fast's Body Language and its four personal distance zones. He critiques the book as popular science with scattered gems while finding no practical solutions to his own awkward proximity issue. The piece contrasts Arab dog invaders, cross my arms signals, and teenage necking rites with the author’s conclusions.
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Alexander
Salamis
Thucydides
Freeman
Julian Fast
Mr Fast
Robert Ardrey
Hall
Fast
Invader
An allegory of empire by Boris Vian reviewed
A late 1950s France era allegory of empire collapse, depicting a middle-aged couple, their daughter, and a servant in a shrinking flat. The Noise and the Schmurz symbolize revolt and colonial suffering, culminating in a fatal impulse to reclaim lost holdings. Strong entities include Boris Vian and the French publishing context.
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France
Indo-China
Morocco
Algeria
Vian
Cloud Cuckoo-Land
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Unwin & Allen
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