Phoenix

Book Reviews

• *The Balkans (Mark Mazower)
  - beyond stereotypes: a short but insightful history
• The English Civil Wars 1640-1660 (Blair Worden)
  - a straightforward but insightful account
• *The French Revolution (George Rudé)
  - a modern marxist interpretation
• *The History of the Countryside (Oliver Rackham)
  The classic history of Britain's landscape, flora and fauna
• Holy Fire (Bruce Sterling)
  - a future dominated by a gerontocratic medical-industrial complex
• The Spanish Cockpit (Franz Borkenau)
  An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War
• The Spies of Warsaw (Alan Furst)
  - a novel of espionage against Germany in 1937
• Turkish Gambit (Boris Akunin)
  - a mystery novel set in the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War