Phoenix

Book Reviews

• *The Balkans (Mark Mazower)
  - beyond stereotypes: a short but insightful history
• *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