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h1 align="center">Books - On Modern TragediesStephen Armstrong, WAR PLC: The Rise of The New Corporate Mercenary. Faber and Faber, 2008, 255pp. (On mercenaries. Most wars have been fought by mercenaries)
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 utopian dreams of humanity revisited)
Gholam Reza Afkhami, The Life and Death of the Shah. University of California Press, 2009, 713pp.
Janet Afary, Sexual Politis in Modern Iran. Cambridge University Press, 2009, 442pp.
Stefan Aust, The Baader Meinhof Complex. Jonathan Cape, 2009, 458pp. (On Germany's home-grown terrorism group of the 1960s, "a deranged crusade")
Said K. Aburish, Nasser: The Last Arab. Duckworth, 2005, 355pp.
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.
Phillip Bobbitt, Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century. Allen Lane, 2008, 688pp.
Michael Burleigh, Moral Combat: A History of World War II. HarperCollins, 2010, 652pp.
Peter Beinart, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris. MUP, 2010, 482pp. (An account of 100 years of US foreign policy. The American eagle flies, expresses different kinds of hubris, and sometimes crashes embarrassingly)
Michael Burleigh, Moral Combat: A History of World War Two. Harper Press, 2010, 576pp.
Angela Bennett, The Geneva Convention. No details, 2006.
Daniel Blatman, The Death Marches: The Final Phases of Nazi Genocide. Harvard University Press, 2011, 562pp.
Brett Bowden and Michael T. Davis, (Eds.), Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism. UQP, 2008, 384pp.
Benazir Bhutto, Reconciliation, Islam, Democracy and the West. Simon and Schuster, 2008, 328pp.
Ian J. Bickerton, The Arab-Israeli Conflict. Reaktion Books, 2010, 256pp.
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)
Jonathan Brent, Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia. Scribe, 2009, 335pp.
Bill Clinton (former President, USA), Giving: How Each Of Us Can Change The World. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007, 284pp.
Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. Penquin, 2005, 712pp.
Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: The Story of a Family and Its Fortune. Allen Lane, 2008, 736pp.
Con Coughlin, Khomeini's Ghost. Macmillan, 2009, 367pp.
Catrine Clay, King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins and the Lead-Up to War. no details, 2006. (King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II were cousins who between them ruled half the world. Then came the First World War. Go figure)
Alastair Campbell, The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries. Hutchinson, 2007, 794pp.
Gregory Claeys, Searching for Utopia. Thames and Hudson, 2011, 224pp.
Chrissie Foster, Hell on the Way to Heaven. Bantam, 2010, 375pp. (Searing indictment of Australian Catholic clergy in Melbourne abusing children, and not punished for it. By a mother of affected children)
Alastair Campbell and Bill Hagerty, (Eds.), The Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume One, Prelude to Power 1994-1997. Hutchinson, 2010, 744pp.
C. A. J. Coody, Morality and Political Violence. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 317pp.
Audrey Kurth Cronin, How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns. Princeton University Press, 2010, 311pp.
Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Archar, Perilous Power: The Middle East and US Foreign Power. No details, 2006.
Con Coughlin, Khomeini's Ghost: The Definitive Account of Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution and Its Enduring Legacy. Macmillan, 2009, 370pp (Reviewer in Australia fails to find this book definitive)
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.
Christopher de Bellaigue, In The Rose Garden Of The Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran. HarperCollins, 2005, 283pp. (On the dread divide in the world of Islam between Sunni and Shi'ite)
M. W. Daly, Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 388pp.
Robert Draper, Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush. Free Press, 2007, 463pp.
Robert Dalleck, Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power. Allen Lane, 2007, 740pp. (A Faustian bargain, says one reviewer)
Daniel Domschelt-Berg, with Tina Klopp, translation by Jefferson Chase, Inside Wikileaks. Scribe, 2011, 283pp.
Suelette Dreyfus and Julian Assange, Underground. William Heinemann, Australia, 2011, 479pp. (Inside Wikileaks)
Leonard J. Davis, Obsession: A History. The University of Chicago Press. 2009, 290pp. (Australian reviewer thinks the author has got a great deal by the wrong handle.)
Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Love, Life and Death in North Korea. Fourth Estate, 2010, 314pp.
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.
Ashley Ekins and Elizabeth Stewart, (Eds.), War Wounds: Medicine and the Trauma of Conflict. Exisle Publishing, 2011, 240pp.
Sebastian Edwards, Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism. University of Chicago Press, 2010, 292pp.
Terry Eagleton, On Evil. Yale University Press, 2010, 192pp.
Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939. Penguin, 2006, 941pp.
John C. Fortier and Norman J. Ornstein, Second-Term Blues: How George W. Bush Has Governed. Brookings Institution Press, 2007, 146pp.
Jean-Pierre Filiu, Apocalypse in Islam. University of California Press, 2011, 260pp. (Originally, Apocalypse was a Christian concept. Book written by an academic who is a speaker of Arabic. A warning also against religious fundamentalists in the USA.)
Peter Ferguson, Darkness in Paris: The Allies and the Eclipse of France, 1940. Scribe, 2005, 341pp.
Michael Gawenda, American Notebook: A Personal and Political Journey. Melbourne University Press, 2007, 256pp.
A. C. Grayling, Towards The Light: The Story of The Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West. Bloomsbury, 2007, 336pp.
Paul Ginsborg, Democracy: Crisis and Renewal. Profile Books, 2008, 166pp (Headline of a review reads: "rethinking the end of history")
John Gray, Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia. Allen Lane, 2007, 229pp.
Raymond Gaita, (Ed.), Essays on Muslims and Multiculturalism. Text Publishing, 20011, 232pp.
Peter Godwin, The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe. (By a New York journalist who grew up in Zimbabwe)
Andrew Greig, Taming War: Culture and Technology for Peace. Peace Power Press, 2008, 314pp.
Charles Guthrie and Michael Quinlan, Just War: The Just War Tradition: Ethics in Modern Warfare. Bloomsbury, 2008, 64pp.
Akbar Ganji, The Road to Democracy in Iran. Boston Review, 2009, 113pp.
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.
Richard Haass, War of Necessity: War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2010, 352ppp.
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22. Allen and Unwin, 2010, 435pp. (Life of a famous British contrarian)
Russ Hoyle, Going to war: how misinformation, disinformation and arrogance led America into the Iraqi quagmire. St Martins Press/Faber USA, 2008, 544pp.
Anthony Seldon, Blair Unbound. Simon and Schuster, 2008, 583pp. (On
Blair's career from 9/11 till he retired as British PM in 2007. Really,
Prometheus Unbound, Blair ain't, and Blair isn't even dead yet, so
let's not be too adulatory about him already, it might go to his head.
See Seldon's earlier book, Blair, 2004. -Ed)
Joseph H.Boyett, Won't Get Fooled Again: A Voter's Guide to Seeing Through The Lies, Getting past The Propaganda, and Choosing the Best Lead. Amacom, 2008, 304pp. (Tragedies of lack of leadership in the modern era)
Ben Hills, Princess Masako. No details, 2006. (Modern life for the Japanese dynasty, the tragedy of a female heir)
Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier, Bullfighting: A Troubled History. (Translated by Sue Rose). Reaktion Books, 2010, 224pp.
Joost R. Hiltermann, A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq and the Gassing of Halabja. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 346pp.
Jacob Heilbrunn, They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the neocons. Doubleday, 2008, 320pp. (The neocons influencing Pres. G. W. Bush didn't actually know how anything actually worked, the army, the UN, how human cultures react, etc etc)
Ariel Heyanto, State Terrorism and Political Identity in Indonesia: Fatally Belonging. Routledge, 2007, 242pp.
Katrin Himmler, The Himmler Brothers. Macmillan, 2007, 333pp.
Gordon Hahn, Russia's Islamic Threat. Yale University Press, 2007, 349pp.
Neil Henry, American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media. University of California Press, 2007, 326pp.
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?
James T. Kloppenberg, Reading Obama. Princeton University Press, 2011, 302pp.
Ben Kiernan, Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur. Melbourne University Press, 2008, 768pp.
Edward M. Kennedy, True Compass: A Memoir. Little, Brown, 2009, 532pp. (Autobiography, based on an oral history project seemingly designed to airbrush Kennedy)
Ian Kershaw, Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World. 1940-1941. Viking, 2007, 624pp.
David Kilcullen, The Accidental Guerilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One. Scribe, 2009, 346pp. (On ways to counter radical Islamic insurgency movements.)
Farhad Khostrokhavar, Inside Jihadism: Understanding Jihadi Movements Worldwide. Paradigm Books, 2009, 321pp.
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.
Susie Linfield, The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence. University of Chicago Press, 2011, 320pp. (Illustrated, of course)
On Wikileaks: David Leigh and Luke Harding, Wikileaks. Guardian Books, 2011, 352pp.
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)
Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on America's Ideals. Scribe, 2008, 400pp.
Jim Molan, Running The War In Iraq. HarperCollins, 2008, 358pp.
Giles Milton, Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance. Sceptre, 2008, 426pp.
James McConnachie and Robin Tudge, The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories. Rough Guide References, 2007, 420pp.
Karl Maler, Angola: Promises and Lies. Serif, 2008, 224pp.
Mark Mazower, Hitler's Empire. Penguin, 2008, 725pp.
Gigs van Hensbergen, Guernica. Bloomsbury, 2005, 373pp.
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.
Martha C. Nussbaum, The Clash Within: Religious Violence and India's Future. Harvard University Press, 2008, 432pp.
Tim Newark, (Ed.), The Worldwide History of Warfare. Thames and Hudson, 2009, 320pp. (Superficial and selective, an Australan reviewer finds.)
David Olusoga and Casper W. Erichsen, The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism. Faber and Faber, 2011, 394pp. ((On the German colony in s/w Africa. The first governor of which was Heinrich Goering, the father of Hermann the servant of Hitler. In particular, the Germans harrassed the Herero people, but also persecuted the Nama people, circa 1890s)
Charles L. Pritchard, Failed Diplomacy: the tragic story of how North Korea got the bomb. Brookings Institute Press, 2007, 228pp.
Charles L. Pritchard, Failed Diplomacy: the tragic story of how North Korea got the bomb. Brookings Institute Press, 2007, 228pp.
Ami Pedahzur, The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. Columbia University Press, 2009, 215pp.
Chris Patten, Not Quite The Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs. Allen Lane, 2005, 304pp.
Sarah Palin, Going Rogue: An American Life. Harper, 2010, 432pp.
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)
Timothy W. Ryback, Hitler's Private Library. Bodley Head, 2009, 278pp.
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)
David Sobek, The Causes of War. Polity Press, 2008, 240pp.
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007, 397pp.
Mary Elise Sarotte, 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold-War Europe. Princeton University Press, 2010, 321pp.
Michael Scammell, Koestler. Faber and Faber, 2010, 689pp. (Biography of a noted world intellectual)
Tim Soutphommasane, Reclaiming Patriotism. Cambridge University Press, 2009, 153pp. (Mostly about the UK. Should patriotism be a dirty word?)
Jeremi Suri, Henry Kissinger and the American Century. Harvard University Press, 2009, 358pp.
Dominic Streatfeild, A History of the World Since 9/11. Atlantic Books, 2011, 408pp.
Jeremi Suri, Henry Kissinger and the American Century. Belknap Press, 2007, 358pp.
Peter Stansky, The First Day of the Blitz. September 7, 1940. Scribe, 2007, 212pp.
Jonathan Schneer, The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Bloomsbury, 2011, 480pp. ($50)
Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. Serpent's Tail, 2007, 452pp.
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Jonathan Cape, 2011, 524pp.
Megan Stack, Every Man In This Village Is A Liar. Scribe, 2010, 272pp. (Views from a LA Times journalist on "the war on terror)
Simon Schama, The American Future: A History. The Bodley Head, 2008, 392pp.
Hugo Slim, Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War. Hurst, 2008, 256pp.
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.
David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. Free Press, 2007, 478pp.
Frederick Taylor, The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 to 9 November 1989. no details, 2006.
Aatish Taseer, A Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands. Text Publishing, 2009, 384pp.
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)
Hugo Vickers, Behind Closed Doors. Random House, 2011, 462pp. (Life and death of Wallis Simpson, wife of the abdicating British king, Edward VIII) lost citation
Philipp von Boeselager, Valkyrie: The Plot to Kill Hitler. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009. (By one of actual conspirators)
Bob Woodward, The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008. Simon and Schuster, 2008, 487pp.
Ethan Watters, Crazy Like Us: The Globalisation of the American Pysche. Scribe, 2010, 3200. (On the USA's export of drugs for patients and its own notions of human nature, madness, etc.)
Ibn Warraq, Virgins? What Virgins? Prometheus, 2010, 544pp. (From a Muslim apostate, about Islam and the West, British Colonialism, US Foreign Policy today, and why he thinks the West is best)
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. Allen lane, 2007, 702pp.
Ethan Watters, Crazy Like Us: The Globalisation of the American Psyche. Scribe, 2010, 306pp.
Nicolas Werth, Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag. Princeton University Press, 2007, 223pp.
Mark Willacy, The View From The Valley Of Hell. Macmillan, 2007, 327pp. (From a former BBC reporter, suggesting that what Israelis do to Palestinians is brutish and inhumane)
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. Allen lane, 2007, 702pp.
Eric D. Weitz, Weimar Germany. Princeton University Pres, 2009, 425pp.
Wynn W. Westcott, Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues. Santa Fe, Sun Books, 1983.
Francis Wheen, Strange Days Indeed. Fourth Estate, 2009, 344pp. (Yes, title from a phrase in a John Lennon song, on the madness and paranoia of the 1970s)
Bob Woodward, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat. Simon and Schuster, 2005, 232pp.
Irfan Yusuf, Once Were Radicals: My Years as a Teenage Islamo-Fascist. Allen and Unwin, 2009, 309pp.
Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. Rider and Co, 2008, 576pp.
Zhao Ziyang, Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang. Simon and Schuster, 2009, 306pp. (How a premier politician in China spent the last 16 years of his life under house arrest)
Zionism (Which this website does not admire)
Benny Morris, 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War. Yale, 2008, 524pp.
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.
Abdul Salam Zaeef, My Life With The Taliban. Scribe Books, 2010, 368pp.
Jennifer Zeng, Witnessing History: One Woman's Fight For Freedom And Falun Gong. Allen and Unwin, 2005, 368pp.
Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. Random House, 2007, 576pp.
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? -Ed)
Jacqueline
Rose, The Question of Zion. Melbourne University
Press, 2007, 202pp.
Arthur Blech, The Causes of
Anti-Semitism. Select Books, 2007, 440pp.
Now return to the Index
Stop Press: For late entries
Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud. Gibson Square, 2005, 355pp.
Edward Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. Vintage, London, 1997.
Alec Russell, After Mandela: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa. Hutchinson, 2009, 310pp.
Thomas E. Ricks, The Gamble: General Petraeus and the Untold Story of the American Surge in Iraq, 2006-2008. Allen lane, 2009, 394pp.
Kasra Naji, Ahmadinejad. IB Taurus, 2008, 298pp. (On the leader of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)
Avishai Margalit, On Compromises and Rotten Compromises. Princeton University Press, 2010, 221pp. (Politics writ argumentative)
George Tenet (with Bill Harlow), At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA. HarperCollins, 2007, 549pp.
Guy Rundle, The Shellacking: The Obama Presidency, the Tea Party and the 2010 Mid-Term Elections. K-ist Books, 2011, 133pp.
David North, The Crisis of American Democracy. Mehring Books, 2005, 147pp.
Michael Newton, Gangsters Encyclopedia: The World's Most Notorious Mobs, Gangs and Villains. Collins and Brown, 2007, 256pp.
Martin E. Marty, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison. Princeton University Press, 2011, 264pp.
Chalmers Johnson, Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic. Scribe, 2007, 354pp.
Ernesto Che Guevera: Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevera. Ocean Books, 2009, 168pp.
Lisa French Baker, Heart of Darfur: Hope and Humanity in the World's Worst War Zone. Hachette, 2007, 348pp.
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)
Martin Plowman, The UFO Diaries. Allen and Unwin, 2011, 303pp.
Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown: A Memoir. Sentinel, 2011, 813pp.
Michael Otterman, American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond. Melbourne University Press, 285pp.
Stephen Grey, Ghost Plane, The Untold Story of the CIA´s Torture Program. Scribe, 2007.
Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold. The Decline and Fall of Truth - The Real History of the Bush Administration. Viking, 2007, 341pp.
Ed Husain, The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left. Penguin, 2007, 304pp.
Mohamed ElBaradei, The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times. Bloomsbury, 2007, 341pp.
Ron Rosenbaum, How The End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III. Simon and Schuster, 2007, 350pp.
Christopher Hitchens, Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger. nd??
American tragics, Paddy Ashdown, Swords and Ploughshares: Bringing Peace to the 21st Century. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007, 352pp.
Rupert Smith, The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World. Penguin, 2007, 448pp.
Abdel Bari Atwan, The Secret History of Al Qaeda. Abacus, 2007, 256pp.
Sarah Chayes, The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan after the Taliban. University of Queensland Press, 2007, 400pp.
Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. Atlantic Books, 2007, 728pp.
Thomas Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. Penguin, 2007, 496pp.
Peter Beinart, The Good Fight: Why Liberals - and Only Liberals - Can Win The War on Terror. Melbourne University Publishing, 2007, 288pp.
Alan Dershowitz, Blasphemy: How The Religious Right is Hijacking our Declaration of Independence. Wiley, 2007, 208pp. (Renews discussion on the separation of church/religion and the state in the USA, one of the first countries in the world which tried to keep the two apart for the betterment of humanity)
Stephen Holmes, The Matador´s Cape: America´s Reckless Response to Terror. Cambridge University Press, 2007, 367pp.
George Tenet, At The Centre of The Storm. (Reviewer has mixed feelings on this writer´s views on events before and after 9/11)
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