Publication date: 2004-10-01
Dewey code: 973.9310207
RRP: £11.99
Price: £1.00
Review Bully!: Master of the Global Merry-go-round / Nation Books:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 1998-04-16
Dewey code: 363.4509728
RRP: £12.95
Price: £8.54
Review Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America / University of California Press:
Creator: Peter W. Sinnema
Publication date: 2008-09-11
Dewey code: 170.44
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.32
Review Self-Help (Oxford World's Classics) / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 2007-08-15
Dewey code: 940.544092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.06
Review Freedom in the Air: A Czech Flyer and His Aircrew Dog / Pen & Sword Aviation:
Publication date: 2002-12-16
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.99
Review Andrew Lorimer's Life and Times in the Upper Tweed Valley / Tuckwell Press Ltd:
Creator: James D. Cockcroft
Publication date: 2000-07-15
Dewey code: 983.0646
RRP: £13.95
Price: £8.19
Review Salvador Allende Reader: Chile's Voice of Democracy / Ocean Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-06-01
Dewey code: 943.086092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.98
Review At Hitler's Side: The Memoirs of Hitler's Luftwaffe Adjutant, 1937-1945 (Greenhill Military Paperback): The Memoirs of Hitler's Luftwaffe Adjutant, 1937-1945 (Greenhill Military Paperback) / Greenhill Books:
Authors
- Leonard Weinglass
- Nancy Morejon
- etc.
- Alice Walker
Dewey code: 365.4509227291
RRP: £11.99
Price: £3.96
Review Letters of Love and Hope: The Story of the Cuban Five / Ocean Press:
Edition: New ed of 2nd revised ed
Publication date: 1999-07-26
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £17.99
Price: £16.85
Review Dario Fo: People's Court Jester (Biography and Autobiography): People's Court Jester (Biography and Autobiography) / Methuen Drama:
Publication date: 1971-06-01
Dewey code: 943.086092
Review Mein Kampf / Houghton Mifflin:
Publication date: 1988-12-08
Dewey code: 941.0840924
Price: £32.57
Review The Last Lion Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 / Little, Brown & Company:
Authors
- James David Barber
- DK Publishing
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 973.099
RRP: £13.02
Price: £13.08
Review Presidents (DK Eyewitness Books) / DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley):
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-09
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £9.09
Price: £4.47
Review Until Death Do Us Part: My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia / Harper Perennial:
Publication date: 1992-02
Dewey code: 976.147
RRP: £11.72
Price: £3.53
Review Rosa Parks: My Story / Dial Books:
Creator: Osers Ewald
Publication date: 2007-05-31
Dewey code: 940.5318092
RRP: £19.95
Price: £14.94
Review Escape from Hell: The Story of the Auschwitz Protocol / Berghahn Books:
Publication date: 1994-11-30
RRP: £25.00
Price: £50.00
Review A Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela / Little, Brown:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-03-03
Dewey code: 940.5318
Price: £9.99
Review Europa, Europa / John Wiley & Sons:
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 1995-09-22
Price: £9.99
Review Conflict of Loyalty / Pan Books:
Publication date: 2004-06-01
Dewey code: 958.1045
Price: £18.99
Review Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 / Penguin Putnam Inc:Steve Coll's Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 offers revealing details of the CIA's involvement in the evolution of the Taliban and al Qaeda in the years before the September 11 attacks. From the beginning, Coll shows how the CIA's on-again, off-again engagement with Afghanistan after the end of the Soviet war left officials at Langley with inadequate resources and intelligence to appreciate the emerging power of the Taliban. He also demonstrates how Afghanistan became a deadly playing field for international politics where Soviet, Pakistani and US agents armed and trained a succession of warring factions. At the same time, the book, though opinionated, balances accounts of CIA failures with the success stories, such as the capture of Mir Amal Kasi. Coll, managing editor for the Washington Post, covered Afghanistan from 1989 to 1992. He demonstrates unprecedented access to records of White House meetings and to formerly classified material, and his command of Saudi, Pakistani and Afghani politics is impressive. He also provides a seeming insider's perspective on personalities such as George Tenet, William Casey and anti-terrorism czar Richard Clarke ("who seemed to wield enormous power precisely because hardly anyone knew who he was or what exactly he did for a living"). Coll manages to weave his research into a narrative that sometimes has the feel of a Tom Clancy novel yet never crosses into excess. While comprehensive, Coll's book may be hard going for those looking for a direct account of the events leading to the 9/11 attacks. The CIA's 1998 engagement with bin Laden as a target for capture begins a full two-thirds of the way into Ghost Wars, only after a lengthy march through developments during the Carter, Reagan and early Clinton Presidencies. [+]But this is not a criticism of Coll's efforts; just a warning that some stamina is required to keep up. Ghost Wars is a complex study of intelligence operations and an invaluable resource for those seeking a nuanced understanding of how a small band of extremists rose to inflict incalculable damage on American soil. -Patrick O'Kelley, Amazon. com.
Publication date: 2008-07-29
Dewey code: 282.092
RRP: £25.00
Price: £17.94
Review Vatican Secret Diplomacy: Joseph Hurley and Pope Pius XII / Yale University Press:
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