Publication date: 2008-05-01
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.38
Review The Struggle: Biography of a Fighter Pilot / Mushroom Model Publications:
Publication date: 2004-03-01
Dewey code: 750
RRP: £20.00
Price: £7.25
Review A Profound Secret: May Gaskell, her daughter Amy, and Edward Burne-Jones / Doubleday:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-03-25
Dewey code: 973.81092
RRP: £16.50
Price: £10.88
Review Cathy Williams: From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier / Stackpole Books,U.S.:
Publication date: 2002-04-01
Dewey code: 997.11024092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.41
Review My Falkland Days / Politico's Publishing Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-04-07
Dewey code: 324
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.98
Review War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of 17 books, including War in a Time of Peace, David Halberstam has a gift for bringing current events alive and putting them into historical perspective in an engaging way. In many respects, War in a Time of Peace serves as a sequel to his classic The Best and the Brightest in its examination of how the lessons of Vietnam have influenced American foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. Beginning with the Persian Gulf War, Halberstam discusses the political shift in emphasis from foreign to domestic issues that ushered in the first Clinton administration. Despite the fact that Clinton, along with much of the country, preferred to focus on the home front, the US nonetheless found itself drawn into conflicts in Haiti, Somalia and the Balkans-events that reflected American discomfort with the use of its military forces abroad while at the same time acknowledging that much of the world is dependent upon the US for both guidance and support. The book also highlights the many nonpolitical factors that have influenced these political changes, including a generational shift in national leadership, the modern media's emphasis on entertainment over foreign news, a leap in military technology and American economic prosperity that has rendered foreign policy largely irrelevant to many citizens. Halberstam is a master at presenting well-rounded portraits and telling anecdotes of the personalities that have created US policy, casting new light on well-known figures such as Clinton, Colin Powell and George W Bush, as well as supporting players such as Anthony Lake, Richard Holbrooke, James Baker, Madeleine Albright, General Wesley Clark, Al Gore and many other influential American leaders of the past decade. Having covered many aspects of American history and foreign policy since the early 1960s, Halberstam is uniquely qualified to report on an era in which the US, and the world, has changed so dramatically. -Shawn Carkonen.
Publication date: 2006-10-16
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.50
Review Road Trip to Hell: Tabloid Tales of Saddam, Iraq and a Bloody War: Tabloid Tales of Saddam, Iraq and a Crazy War / Monday Books:
Publication date: 2004-08-03
Dewey code: 944.0142092
RRP: £18.95
Price: £12.86
Review Charlemagne: Father of a Continent / University of California Press:
Publication date: 2008-12-01
Dewey code: 909
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.89
Review The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyran / I B Tauris & Co Ltd:
Authors
- Martin Kelly
- Melissa Kelly
Dewey code: 973.099
RRP: £9.74
Price: £6.01
Review The Everything American Presidents Book: All You Need to Know about the Leaders Who Shaped U.S. History (Everything (History & Travel)) / Adams Media Corporation:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1991-11-28
Dewey code: 947.084092
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.45
Review Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938 / OUP USA:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-03-21
Dewey code: 324.973
RRP: £15.99
Price: £12.70
Review The Routledge Historical Atlas of Presidential Elections (Routledge atlases of American history) / Routledge:
Publication date: 2008-10-30
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £11.99
Price: £6.49
Review The Sultan's Admiral: Barbarossa - Pirate and Empire-builder / Tauris Parke Paperbacks:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-06-05
Dewey code: 324
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.86
Review The Rivals: The Intimate Story of a Political Marriage / Fourth Estate:As James Naughtie reminds us in The Rivals, it's seven years since the fabled Islington dinner at which Tony Blair and Gordon Brown decided who was to succeed the late John Smith as Labour leader, and while it's a political union that has profitably endured, there are many, such as Naughtie, happy to ponder any marital itch. Though unauthorised, Naughtie, a presenter of Radio 4's flagship Today programme, has known both men for many years, and neatly summarises how the two young guns forged an early relationship years before power came to Labour. Familiar hotspots of the last government are entertainingly described, if lacking new revelation: the Brown/Cook feuds, Blair's near-adultery with the Liberal Democrats, Geoffrey Robinson's home loan to Peter Mandelson, his subsequent resignation, the Ecclestone affair, Blair's relationship with Clinton, Kosovo and, of course, the question of succession. Naughtie asserts that Blair has two goals: to win a referendum on the European single currency, and to secure a third term-as Prime Minister. Whether this will push Brown into a career outside politics is open to speculation, as his supporters are still of the opinion that Blair strongly intimated that he would hand over power mid-second-term. Of the duopoly, Naughtie ultimately does rather better with Brown, as the Chancellor presents the tangible qualities of a durable political heavyweight bruiser, whereas getting a handle on Blair can be tantamount to swiping mist. Blair, with his mongrel ideology, charismatic deputies and ability to shrug and move on, sees new horizons where Brown sees yet another bend in a road leading from a very proud, rooted past. The Iron Chancellor is portrayed as a deep, committed thinker, doggedly stubborn and as wedded to the past as the future. Hardly Flash Gordon, he's been digesting that Granita meal for years. Servants of the People, Andrew Rawnsley's more jaunty, hugely enjoyable volume, now out in an updated paperback edition, perhaps stole Naughtie's thunder somewhat, but The Rivals still delivers a cogent and enjoyable version on the political karaoke, whether you're a Blair Witch or a Brown Noser. [+]And it certainly keeps matters bubbling until Alastair Campbell writes his book. -David Vincent.
Publication date: 1998-10-08
RRP: £25.00
Price: £20.00
Review The Course of My Life: The Autobiography of Edward Heath / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:Edward Heath's autobiography is at times oddly impersonal; much of its emotional force has to do with a passion for setting the record straight. The son of a small builder, his Conservatism defined itself early on through his patriotism and passion for self-improvement. His travels in Europe as a young man filled him with a dread of the Nazis and he had, as they say, a good war. Just as his time in charge of firing squads put him off capital punishment, so the war made him a determined European; his premiership failed in many ways, but he did succeed in getting Britain into Europe. His opposition to recent Conservative leaders is less the personal pique sometimes alleged than a determination not to see his legacy destroyed. His resolution not to let the Eurosceptics rewrite history sometimes bogs his story down in repetitive score-settling; given the charge of disloyalty so often made against him, it is legitimate that he establish his credentials. At the book's occasional best, he shows a dry humour and an unexpected sense of his own absurdity; there are some surprising vignettes as well, like Fidel Castro drunkenly ranting about his hero- worship of Winston Churchill, and Enoch Powell promising to break an NHS strike by importing Jamaican nurses. -Roz Kaveney.
Publication date: 1983-02-24
Dewey code: 335.4
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.59
Review The Portable Karl Marx (Viking Portable Library) / Penguin Classics:
Creator: Ralph Manheim
Publication date: 1998-09-15
Dewey code: 943.086092
Review Mein Kampf / Houghton Mifflin:
Publication date: 2006-09-11
RRP: £18.99
Price: £11.77
Review Charles Kennedy: A Tragic Flaw / Politico's Publishing Ltd:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 2006-02-15
Dewey code: 973.922092
RRP: £15.50
Price: £12.68
Review The Presidency of John F. Kennedy (American Presidency) (American Presidency) / University Press of Kansas:
Creator: Jeremy Hooker
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-10-24
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.95
Price: £2.50
Review The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography / Green Books:
Creator: Peter Catterall
Publication date: 2003-06-06
RRP: £25.00
Price: £9.90
Review The Macmillan Diaries: Cabinet Years, 1950-1957: The Cabinet Years 1950-57: Cabinet Years, 1950-1957 / Macmillan:
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