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  • Waiting for the Barbarians is a disturbing love story about wanting to possess another person and to turn that person inside out as though she were a riddle to be solved.

    The Nobel Prize in Literature 2003 - Presentation Speech 2003

  • Barbarians is a short novel, but he covers a lot of ground simply because he doesn't waste words thinking or meditating out loud.

    SeeLight: 2008

  • Barbarians is a short novel, but he covers a lot of ground simply because he doesn't waste words thinking or meditating out loud.

    Book Throwin' Update 2008

  • The endless waves of Barbarians is the first twenty years of yo

    You are in more trouble than you realize. 2007

  • The subject nations, resigning the hope, and even the wish, of independence, embraced the character of Roman citizens; and the provinces of the West were reluctantly torn by the Barbarians from the bosom of their mother country.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • His title was disputed by Thomas, the last of the military triumvirate, who transported into Europe fourscore thousand Barbarians from the banks of the Tigris and the shores of the Caspian.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • As soon as the death of Julian had relieved the Barbarians from the terror of his name, the most sanguine hopes of rapine and conquest excited the nations of the

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Waiting for the Barbarians is a political thriller in the tradition of Joseph Conrad, in which the idealist’s naivety opens the gates to horror.

    The Nobel Prize in Literature 2003 - Press Release 2003

  • His next book studies the nature of violence and strategic calculation in English and American wars from 1500 to 1865, and will be published by Oxford University Press in 2011 under the title Barbarians and Brothers: Restraint, and Atrocity in Anglo-American Warfare, 1500–1865.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • His next book studies the nature of violence and strategic calculation in English and American wars from 1500 to 1865, and will be published by Oxford University Press in 2011 under the title Barbarians and Brothers: Restraint, and Atrocity in Anglo-American Warfare, 1500–1865.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

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