Publication date: 2007-09-30
Dewey code: 629.130922
RRP: £18.00
Price: £9.16
Review The Daily Telegraph Airmen's Obituaries Book Two: 2 (Daily Telegraph Obituaries) / Grub Street Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-03-26
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £11.00
Price: £7.46
Review Live to Tell: A True Story of Religious Persecution in Communist Albania / iUniverse.com:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-10-18
Price: £6.99
Review Between Silk and Cyanide / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-02-08
Dewey code: 940.544943
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.87
Review Bf 109 Defence of the Reich Aces (Aircraft of the Aces) / Osprey Publishing:
Creator: Michael P. Johnson
Edition: First
Publication date: 2001-02-20
Dewey code: 973.7092
RRP: £15.99
Price: £12.10
Review Abraham Lincoln, Slavery and the Civil War: Selected Writings and Speeches (Bedford Series in History & Culture) / Palgrave Macmillan:
Publication date: 2007-10-07
RRP: £11.40
Price: £5.47
Review Silent in an Evil Time: The Brave War of Edith Cavell / Tundra Books (NY):
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-02-12
Dewey code: 070.92
RRP: £10.42
Price: £5.33
Review In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing / Random House Trade:
Edition: First Dalkey Archive
Publication date: 2007-03-01
Dewey code: 843.912
RRP: £9.38
Price: £5.86
Review North / Dalkey Archive Press:
Publication date: 2003-11-06
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £20.49
Price: £10.37
Review A Corporal's War: World War II Adventures of a Royal Engineer / iUniverse.com:
Publication date: 2004-09-08
RRP: £32.50
Price: £29.25
Review German Fighter Ace Erich Hartmann: The Life Story of the World's Highest Scoring Ace / Schiffer Publishing Ltd:
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.:
Authors
- Oleg Gordievsky
- Richard Tomlinson
- Barry Davies
Dewey code: 327.12
Price: £13.00
Review The Spycraft Manual: The Insider's Guide to Espionage Techniques. / Zenith Press:
Publication date: 2004-11-04
Dewey code: 327
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.74
Review America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle / Little, Brown Book Group:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2001-09-03
Dewey code: 940.5318092243
Price: £9.99
Review The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 2002-12-01
Dewey code: 327
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.20
Review Painful Questions: An Analysis of the September 11th Attack / Ink & Scribe:
Creator: George Forty
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2002-12-16
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £7.98
Review Leakey's Luck: A Tank Commander with Nine Lives / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 1992-08-06
Price: £5.99
Review By the Moon and the Stars / Random House New Zealand Ltd:
Authors
- Ric Burns
- Geoffrey C. Ward
- Ken Burns
Publication date: 1992-05-01
Dewey code: 973
Price: £25.00
Review The Civil War: An Illustrated History of the War Between the States / Pimlico:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 940.547243092
RRP: £19.95
Price: £12.88
Review They Have Their Exits: A Classic World War Two Memoir of Action and Escape / Pen & Sword Books Ltd:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2004-12-31
Dewey code: 958.1045
Price: £9.02
Review Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 / Penguin Books: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.
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