Books and Conflict

Victor Davis Hanson,"Why We Fight," NY Sun, 24 September, reviews Martin van Creveld's The Culture of War.

Eric Ormsby,"Book-Burning and Other Bibliocausts," NY Sun, 24 September, reviews Fernando Báez's A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern Iraq.

Steven Nadler,"The Great Rambam," NY Sun, 24 September, reviews Joel Kramer's Maimonides.

Adam Kirsch,"A Peculiar Association," NY Sun, 24 September, reviews Annette Gordon-Reed's The Hemingses of Monticello.

Barry Gewen,"Cuba Libre: Rum, Revolution and a Family Tale," NYT, 23 September, reviews Tom Gjelten's Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause.

Ian Kershaw reviews Timothy Ryback's Hitler's Private Library for the NY Sun, 24 September.

Alberto Manguel,"A Universe of Books," NY Sun, 24 September, reviews William Goldbloom Bloch's The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel.