Books by Neil Hanson and Complete Book Reviews
Jessop's energetic rags to riches to rags saga more resembles a Dickens novel than the introspective, spiritual or ironic efforts that glut the adventure-book market. Born to a poor Yorkshire mill girl and a Depression-era "spotty youth,"
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Neil Hanson, Author . Knopf $35 (512p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4294-4
This splendid volume takes its title from a Spaniard's description of his compatriots' mood when the Armada sailed; a miracle was not forthcoming, however, for the Spanish or English fleets. The Spanish lacked the strength to overcome the...
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Neil Hanson, Author . Knopf $28.95 (474p) ISBN 978-0-307-26370-4
In this powerful, painful, unforgettable story of the madness and futility of war, British author Hanson (The Confident Hope of a Miracle
) follows three ordinary warriors—British, German and American—through the logic-defying charnel...
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Neil Hanson, Knopf, $28.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-307-26655-2
This celebration of Monk Eastman (1875–1920), is brought to life by Hanson (Unknown Soldiers) in his biography of the gangster. The son of a respectable Manhattan paperhanger, Eastman set himself on a dark path as a thief, robber, and brawler among...
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Neil Hanson, Author John Wiley & Sons $24.95 (315p) ISBN 978-0-471-38389-5
An exciting, historically accurate depiction of a disastrous 19th-century sea journey and its equally horrific legal aftermath, Hanson's book recounts events that led to the official outlawing of survival cannibalism. When the Mignonette sank in a...
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