Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-09-17
Dewey code: 900
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.89
Review Jihad!: The Secret War in Afghanistan / Mainstream Publishing:As Tom Carew explains in vivid detail in Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan, the West was far from passive in its involvement in the Soviet Union-Afghanistan conflict in 1980. As a member of the SAS, Carew was approached by British Intelligence "to link up with the Afghan Mujahideen resistance movement inside Pakistan, and then go into Afghanistan itself, to make an assessment of what training and material help they needed". Carew went much further than that, establishing close personal bonds with the Afghan guerrillas, and helping them in several disorganised and hair-raising attacks on the Soviets, all of which are recounted here in gory detail. The first half of the book is far more interesting than the second half, which gets bogged down in Carew's frustration at the logistics of setting up a training camp for the Mujahideen in Pakistan. Overall, Jihad! is a very disturbing book, with its indifference to the completely unaccountable nature of this type of bloody covert operation, and Carew's unreflective attitude towards killing. Despite some concluding thoughts on the extent to which the West's intervention in the region "has been somewhat more dubious", this is a chilling book about the murderous realities of global realpolitik at the sharp end. -Jerry Brotton.
Publication date: 2008-03-04
Dewey code: 940.54211
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.83
Review Summer Bright and Terrible, A: Winston Churchill, Lord Dowding, Radar and the Impossible Triumph of the Battle of Britain: 0 / COUNTERPOINT:
Publication date: 2008-03-04
Dewey code: 940.54211
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.83
Review Summer Bright and Terrible, A: Winston Churchill, Lord Dowding, Radar and the Impossible Triumph of the Battle of Britain: 0 / COUNTERPOINT:
Publication date: 2005-05-12
Dewey code: 910.916372
RRP: £18.99
Price: £7.24
Review Dead Reckoning: The Dunedin Star Disaster / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
Creator: Heather Brodie
Publication date: 2007-11-11
RRP: £11.95
Price: £9.75
Review Grandad's War - The First World War Diary of Horace Reginald Stanley / Poppyland Publishing:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2007-09-04
Dewey code: 940.54528092
RRP: £8.00
Price: £3.66
Review So Sad to Fall in Battle: An Account of War Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi's Letters from Iwo Jima / Presidio Press:
Authors
- Max Avery
- Christopher Shores
Dewey code: 940.544993092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £50.99
Review Spitfire Leader: Flying Career of Wing Commander Evan (Rosie) Mackie, DSO, DFC and Bar, DFC(US), New Zealand Fighter Ace / Grub Street:
Authors
- Max Avery
- Christopher Shores
Dewey code: 940.544993092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £50.99
Review Spitfire Leader: Flying Career of Wing Commander Evan (Rosie) Mackie, DSO, DFC and Bar, DFC(US), New Zealand Fighter Ace / Grub Street:
Authors
- W. Travis, III, Ph.D. Hanes
- Frank Sanello
Publication date: 2007-04-01
Dewey code: 951
Price: £7.99
Review Opium Wars / Sourcebooks, Inc:
Publication date: 2007-07-19
Dewey code: 929.1072
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.19
Review Tracing Your Air Force Ancestors / Pen & Sword Aviation:
Edition: New e.
Publication date: 1998-01-26
Dewey code: 843.7
Price: £3.04
Review Le Colonel Chabert / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1990-02-01
Dewey code: 883.01
RRP: £16.50
Price: £10.89
Review Homer: Poet of the Iliad / John Hopkins University Press:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1990-02-01
Dewey code: 883.01
RRP: £16.50
Price: £10.89
Review Homer: Poet of the Iliad / John Hopkins University Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-09-17
Dewey code: 900
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.89
Review Jihad!: The Secret War in Afghanistan / Mainstream Publishing:As Tom Carew explains in vivid detail in Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan, the West was far from passive in its involvement in the Soviet Union-Afghanistan conflict in 1980. As a member of the SAS, Carew was approached by British Intelligence "to link up with the Afghan Mujahideen resistance movement inside Pakistan, and then go into Afghanistan itself, to make an assessment of what training and material help they needed". Carew went much further than that, establishing close personal bonds with the Afghan guerrillas, and helping them in several disorganised and hair-raising attacks on the Soviets, all of which are recounted here in gory detail. The first half of the book is far more interesting than the second half, which gets bogged down in Carew's frustration at the logistics of setting up a training camp for the Mujahideen in Pakistan. Overall, Jihad! is a very disturbing book, with its indifference to the completely unaccountable nature of this type of bloody covert operation, and Carew's unreflective attitude towards killing. Despite some concluding thoughts on the extent to which the West's intervention in the region "has been somewhat more dubious", this is a chilling book about the murderous realities of global realpolitik at the sharp end. -Jerry Brotton.
Authors
- Herman Hattaway
- Richard E. Beringer
Publication date: 2003-09-30
Dewey code: 973.713092
RRP: £13.95
Price: £10.72
Review Jefferson Davis, Confederate President / University Press of Kansas:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1995
Dewey code: 973.9170922
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.77
Review No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in World War II / Simon & Schuster:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1995
Dewey code: 973.9170922
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.77
Review No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in World War II / Simon & Schuster:
Publication date: 2005-05-12
Dewey code: 910.916372
RRP: £18.99
Price: £7.24
Review Dead Reckoning: The Dunedin Star Disaster / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
Publication date: 2007-12-01
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.20
Review Exodus 1947: The Ship That Launched a Nation / Sterling:
Authors
- Herman Hattaway
- Richard E. Beringer
Publication date: 2003-09-30
Dewey code: 973.713092
RRP: £13.95
Price: £10.72
Review Jefferson Davis, Confederate President / University Press of Kansas:
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