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“Few Westerners understand the post-Soviet soul like Lawrence Sheets. Whether it is his hair-raising stories of the region’s myriad armed conflicts or the black…

— Matthew Brzezinski

“This may read like a mad journey through some of the most dangerous places on earth, but it is much more than that as…

— Oliver Bullough

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a…

— Martin Cruz Smith

“One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn”

— Manager Lee Vyborny

Pavel Palazchenko has given us a well-written, inside account of Gorbachev's and Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Remarkably objective, it is full of insights, makes fascinating reading,…

— Jack F. Matlock, Jr

“To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way…

— Ernest Hemingway

“If I can make a difference to some readers and help them to escape from some pains of unforgiveness and emotional misery by thumbing…

— Roger Macdonald Andrew

“Georgi Plekhanov’s classic On the Role of the Individual in History.”

— Ray Dalio

“Practically all human literature deals with the present and the past; when literature tries to describe the future, it at once ceases to be…

— Francis Mccullagh

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lives loss…

— Tahereh Mafi

“You disintegrated into the recriminations, the headlines, the pictures. You scattered yourself into proofs, warnings, suspicions, arrests. You rode out into the dark outrage…

— Jonathan Lee

“Prosperity and comfort are what people seek, but the costs to character are often terrifying”

— Mo Yan