For the first 40 years of its history the Soviet Union was a notoriously closed-off place. Few Brits were able to see that country outside carefully guided tours, even after the two countries had fought a world war as allies. In "Military Attaché in Moscow," Major-General Richard Hilton provided the British public with one of its first real peaks behind the Iron Curtain. Shielded by diplomatic immunity, Hilton could uncover many of the darker sides of Soviet communist life during his two years there as British Military Attaché.

In 1958 the Middle East, and the world situation, was in a state of flux. Great Britain and France had just been humiliated at the Suez Canal. New powers had begun to make their mark, including the USA, the USSR, and, more subtly, international finance.  Back in print after over 60 years, Major-General Richard Hilton’s "The Thirteenth Power" provides an invaluable history of Middle Eastern politics still relevant today.

In 1920, prolific literary critic Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) gave twelve lectures on this question, informed by his experience establishing the English Tripos course at Cambridge. How does the reading of literature help us better understand the spiritual element of man? What should children read? How do we choose what to read, out of countless options? What makes a work of literature a ‘masterpiece’? Sir Arthur confronts these and other questions that many diligent readers have asked themselves at some time. Rich with edifying instruction, "On the Art of Reading" is a marvelous guide for lovers of English literature who wish to graduate from passive to active reading.

An era of renewal and resurgence is dawning, provoking the theme “A Road to Rebirth” for this inaugural Scyldings event in Germany. What paths should we take? What kind of man will lead us? Speeches from Schattenmacher, Boris von Morgenstern, Türmer, Lavader, A Walrus and Sargon of Akkad will be available in this title.