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:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-03-03
Dewey code: 940.5318
Price: £9.99
Review Europa, Europa / John Wiley & Sons:
Authors
- Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.01
Review In the Bunker with Hitler / Phoenix:
Publication date: 2001-01-01
Dewey code: 973.922092
Price: £18.95
Review A Woman Named Jackie: An Intimate Biography of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis / Citadel Press:
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.
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 2006-04-01
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £3.99
Price: £1.25
Review Cutthroats / Presidio Press:
Publication date: 2005-09-30
Dewey code: 359.331092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.19
Review Rodney and The Breaking of the Line / Leo Cooper Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-07-18
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.09
Review Back Seat Driver / Pen Press Publishers:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1988-09
Dewey code: 959.7043373
RRP: £16.78
Price: £25.13
Review A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam / Random House Inc (T):This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centres on Lt Col John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates America's failures and disillusionment in Southeast Asia. Vann was a field adviser to the army when American involvement was just beginning. He quickly became appalled at the corruption of the South Vietnamese regime, their incompetence in fighting the Communists and their brutal alienation of their own people. Finding his superiors too blinded by political lies to understand that the war was being thrown away, he secretly briefed reporters on what was really happening. One of those reporters was Neil Sheehan. This definitive exposé on why America lost the war won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1989.
Publication date: 2000-11-02
Dewey code: 940.3
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.04
Review The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I (Complete Idiot's Guide to) / Imprint Unknown:
Authors
- Susan Dworkin
- Edith Hahn Beer
Dewey code: 970.5
RRP: £20.00
Price: £23.82
Review The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust / Little, Brown:
Publication date: 2000-08-31
RRP: £16.99
Price: £16.98
Review Secret Agent: The True Story of the Special Operations Executive / BBC Books:Published to coincide with the accompanying BBC television series, this is the fascinating, hair-raising, sometimes hilarious and sometimes tragic account of the brave men and women who went behind the lines in Nazi-occupied territory, with a mission to, in Churchill's words, "set Europe ablaze". The scale of their operations was always limited by lack of funds, military hardware, and, most unbelievably of all, by the continual sniping that the SOE suffered from jealous rival special forces, and the sneering suits in Whitehall. Despite such difficulties, however, their range of operations was impressive: from Gorgopotamos in Greece to Bergen in Norway they did indeed do their very best to set Europe ablaze, with what few resources they had, and faced certain torture and death if they were caught. Their greatest impact was in the Balkans, supporting Tito and his partisans against the Germans, but here, as ever in the Balkans, things were always complicated by ethnic rivalries and atrocious massacres of civilians. In the end, though, the greatest value of the SOE was to boost public morale back home, and it did that superbly. David Stafford's account is excellent, the only reservation being that it leaves one wanting more detail and more characterisation about specific missions. One doesn't often get a sense of being there on the front line but, as an introduction to the subject, this is very satisfactory. -Christopher Hart.
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: 2005-09-15
Dewey code: 359.0092241
RRP: £25.00
Price: £14.12
Review Who's Who in Nelson's Navy: Two Hundred Heroes / Chatham Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-10-01
Dewey code: 940.5413430922
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.06
Review Panzer Commanders of the Western Front: German Tank Generals in World War II (Stackpole Military History): German Tank Generals in World War II (Stackpole Military History) / Stackpole Books,U.S.:
Publication date: 2008-05-05
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.99
Review Do or Die / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-05-31
Dewey code: 364
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.99
Review Shoot to Kill / Blake Publishing:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-10-15
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.82
Review Shooting the War: The Memoir and Photographs of a U-Boat Officer in World War II (Bluejacket Books) / Naval Institute Press:
Publication date: 1992-05
Dewey code: 158
RRP: £17.50
Price: £7.00
Review Serious Surveillance for the Private Investigator / Paladin Press,U.S.:
Publication date: 1998-05-21
Price: £16.99
Review The Informer / Bantam Press:
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