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Said K. Aburish, Nasser: The Last Arab. Duckworth, 2005, 355pp.
Waleed Aly, People Like Us: How Arrogance is Dividing Islam and the West. Picador, 2007, 277pp. (Notes on how radical Muslims want to remake humanity, or the world, the deadly old dream of humanity revisited)
Anonymous, A Woman In Berlin. Virago, 2005, 320pp. (A now-classic but still anonymous account of the degradation of the women of Berlin at the end of World War Two)
Paddy Ashdown, Swords and Ploughshares: Bringing Peace to the 21st Century. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007, 338pp.
Nicholas Baker, Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilisation. Simon and Schuster, 2008, 566pp.
Jasper Becker, Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea. Oxford University Press, 2005, 274pp.
Isaiah Berlin, The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture Under Communism. Brookings Institution, 2005. 242pp.
Benazir Bhutto, Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West. Simon and Schuster, 2008, 328pp.
Michael Burleigh, Sacred Causes: Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al-Quaeda. Fourth Estate, 2006.
Tina Brown, The Diana Chronicles. Random House, 2007, 481pp. (On Lady Diana Spencer)
Carmen Callil, Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland. Random House, 2006. (A story on Louis Darquier, noted French collaborator with Germans in WWII)
Joseph J. Carr, The Twisted Cross: The Occult
Religion of
Hitler and the New Age Nazism of the Third Reich. Shreveport,
Louisiana, Huntingdon House, 1985.
Tim Carroll, The Great Escapers: The Full Story of the Second World War's Most Remarkable Mass Escape. Hardie Grant Books, 2005, 272pp.
Fidel Castro with Ignacio Ramonet, My Life. (Translated by Andrew Hurley). Allen Lane, 2007, 735pp.
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story. Jonathan Cape, 2005. (Much-acclaimed biography of one of the great criminals of history, though slowly being criticised for a bias of excessive hate)
General history, Peter Conradi, Hitler's Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl. Duckworth, 2005, 352pp.
M. W. Daly, Darfur's Sorrow. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 368pp.
David Day, Conquest: A New History of the Modern World. HarperCollins, 2005, 370pp.
Robert Draper, Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush. Free Press, 2007, 463pp.
Nic Dunlop, The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge. Bloomsbury, 2005, 326pp.
Gwynne Dyer, War: The Lethal Custom. Scribe Publications, 2005, 484pp.
Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939. Penguin, 2006, 941pp.
Peter Ferguson, Darkness in Paris: The Allies and the Eclipse of France, 1940. Scribe, 2005, 341pp.
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviet's Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War. Yale University Press, 2007, 287pp. (Contentious argument that Moscow provoked the Israeli Six-Day War)
Alan Gill: Interrupted Journeys: Young Refugees from Hitler's Reich. Simon and Schuster, 2004, 306pp.
E. J. Gold, The Human Biological Machine as a Transformational Apparatus. The Labyrinth Trilogy. Book 1. Nevada City, IDHHB Inc., 1984, 1985.
Gordon Hahn, Russia's Islamic Threat. Yale University Press, 2007, 349pp.
Jana Hensel, After the Wall: Confessions From An East German Childhood And The Life That Came Next. Public Affairs Books, 2005, 180pp.
Ariel Heyanto, State Terrorism and Political Identity in Indonesia: Fatally Belonging. Routledge, 2007, 242pp.
Katrin Himmler, The Himmler Brothers. Macmillan, 2007, 333pp.
Ed Husain, The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside And Why I Left. Penguin, 2007, 288pp.
Zahid Hussain, Frontline Pakistan: The Path to Catastrophe and the Killing of Benazir Bhutto. I. B. Tauris, 2008, 220pp.
Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History. WW Norton, 2007, 272pp.
Paul Johnson, In Search of the Masters: Behind the Occult Myth. nd?
Christine Keeler with Douglas Thompson, Christine Keeler, The Truth At Last: My Story. Sidgwick and Jackson, 2001, 279pp.
Ben Kieman, Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur. Melbourne University Press, 2008, 724pp.
Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Schwatz Publishing, 2005.
Deborah Lipstadt, History on Trial. HarperCollins, nd 2005-2006? (The now-famous case of British holocaust-denier David Irving suing Lipstadt for libel within her critical remarks on his writings. The judgement in the British courts, not US courts, was that Irving has been a liar, a falsifier of history - Prof. Lipstadt's website at: http://lipstadt.blogspot.com - David Irving's website at: www.fpp.co.uk - and the legal judgement in question is at: www.hdot.org)
James McConnachie and Robin Tudge, The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories. Rough Guide References, 2007, 420pp.
Caroline Moorehead, Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees. Chatto and Windus, 2005, 336pp.
Allan McKee, Katherine Albury and Catharine Lumby, The Porn Report. Melbourne University Press, 2008, 272pp.
Sarah Maddison and Sean Scalmer, Activist Wisdom. UNSW Press, 2007, 284pp.
W. Adam Mandelbaum, The Psychic Battlefield: A History of the Military-Occult Complex. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Bradley K. Martin, Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty. Thomas Dunne Books, 2005, 704pp.
Catherine Merridale, Ivan's War: The Red Army 1939-1945. Faber, 2006, 396pp.
Hugh Miles, Al-Jazeera: How Arab TV News Challenged The World. Abacus, 2005, 438pp.
Kerrie Murphy, TV Land. Wily, 2006, 260pp. (On the darker side of so-called reality-TV)
Walid Phares, The War of Ideas: Jihadism Against Democracy. Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007, 266pp.
Robert Pape, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. Scribe, 2005, 335pp.
Walid Phares, The War of Ideas: Jihadism Against Democracy. Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007, 266pp.
Ian Pfennigwerth, A Man of Intelligence. Rosenberg, 2006, 304pp. (On code-breaker Capt. Eric Nave (d.1993), and the knotty question of whether the Allies had advance warning of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour)
Phil Rees, Dining with Terrorists. Picador, 2005, 395pp.
Donald Rayfield, Stalin and his Hangmen. Penguin, 2005, 528pp.
History Geoffrey Robertson, The Tyrranical Brief. Chatto and Windus, 2005. (On rebel Oliver Cromwell and the death of Charles I of England)
Peter Rodgers,Herzel's Nightmare. Scribe, 2004, 144pp. (On the creation of the state of Israel, and rather despairing with it)
Allegra Stratton, The Mujahababes. MUP, 2006. (Young Middle Eastern Muslims from the trendy to the devout discuss their views on their world)
Peter Schrivers, The Unknown Dead: Civilians in the Battle of the Bulge. University Press of Kentucky, 2005, 430pp.
Andrew Scull, Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine. Yale, 2005, 360pp. (Trends in treatment of the mentally ill in USA)
Robert Service, Comrades: A World History of Communism. Macmillan, 2007, 571pp.
Lynette Ramsay Silver, The Bridge At Parit Sulong. Watermark Press, 2005, 485pp (More on other atrocities by Japanese troops during World War Two)
Peter Stansky, The First Day of the Blitz. September 7, 1940. Scribe, 2007, 212pp.
Nicholas Stargardt, Witnesses of War: Children's Lives Under The Nazis. Cape, 2005, 509pp.
Sybille Steinbacher, Auschwitz: A History. Penguin, 2005, 160pp.
Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict. Allen Lane, 2008, 311pp.
Damian Thompson, CounterKnowledge. Atlantic Books, 2008, 256pp. (So what about the Internet and all the religious fanaticism, pseudo-medical claptrap, porn, the views of ridiculous academics, and all those conspiracy theories it delivers us?)
James Traub, The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power. Bloomsbury, 2007, 464pp.
James Traub, The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power. Bloomsbury, 2007, 464pp.
Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush. Scribner, 2008, 436pp. (On the ills of the presidency of George W. Bush)
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. Allen lane, 2007, 702pp.
Wynn W. Westcott, Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues. Santa Fe, Sun Books, 1983.
Bob Woodward, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat. Simon and Schuster, 2005, 232pp.
Zionism
Idith Zertal, Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood. Cambridge University Press, 2007, 236pp. (How long can Israelis use their 1940s experience of The Holocaust as a guide to their other experiences? When do martyrs reach their use-by date?)
Jacqueline Rose, The Question of Zion. Melbourne University Press, 2007, 202pp.
Arthur Blech, The Causes of Anti-Semitism. Select Books, 2007, 440pp.
Jennifer Zeng, Witnessing History: One Woman's Fight For Freedom And Falun Gong. Allen and Unwin, 2005, 368pp.
Zimbabwe
How to ruin a marvellous bread-basket
country in Africa - Martin
Meredith, Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for
Zimbabwe. Public
Affairs/Perseus Book Group, 2008, 272pp,
Gugulethu
Moyo, (Ed.), The
Day After Mugabe: Prospects for Change in Zimbabwe.
Africa Research
Institute, 2008, 214pp. (Only available from the ARI)
Zionism
Idith Zertal, Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of
Nationhood.
Cambridge University Press, 2007, 236pp. (How long can Israelis use
their 1940s experience of The Holocaust as a guide to their other
experiences? When do martyrs reach their use-by date? What about
empathy-fatigue as a factor in world activism about anything?)
Jacqueline
Rose, The Question of Zion. Melbourne University
Press, 2007, 202pp.
Arthur Blech, The Causes of
Anti-Semitism. Select Books, 2007, 440pp.
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Phillip Bobbitt, Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century. Allen Lane, 2008, 688pp.
Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: The Story of a Family and Its Fortune. Allen Lane, 2008, 736pp.
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007, 397pp.
Charles L. Pritchard, Failed Diplomacy: the tragic story of how North Korea got the bomb. Brookings Institute Press, 2007, 228pp.
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