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The author of this blog is Trevor Pateman. I have purchased all the books reviewed here except a very few noted as sent to me. My own books are cheapest at blackwells.co.uk and are usually on Amazon. I can be found at academia.edu but do not have an X account and never used Twitter; that is another Trevor Pateman.

Sunday, 17 March 2013

Review:Christopher de Bellaigue, Patriot of Persia - Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup

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The title is surprisingly misleading: it was an American coup, directed by Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt dispensing an awful lot of...
Monday, 4 March 2013

Review: James Barr, A Line In The Sand

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I am shocked. From the time in 1918 - when they were granted League of Nations mandates to run the former Ottoman Middle East -  until...
Saturday, 23 February 2013

Review: William Dalrymple, Return of a King

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I hesitated over buying this book: Would I really commit to reading 500 pages on the first British Invasion of Afghanistan, way back in...
Monday, 11 February 2013

Review: Trevor Pateman, Language in Mind and Language in Society

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This is a book about Nature and Culture - and about the Mind as the place where both can be found.  It's focussed through a close e...
Saturday, 9 February 2013

Review: Trevor Pateman, Language Truth and Politics

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I wrote this book forty years ago. It was typed and re-typed in a rented thatched cottage in a Devon village: I had a job in a nearby c...

Review: David Edgerton, Britain's War Machine

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Between the retreat from Dunkirk in 1940 and the Normandy landings in 1944, Britain was not fighting a land war in Europe and most of i...
Sunday, 13 January 2013

Review: Richard Davenport-Hines, An English Affair - Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

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The Conservative Party. The News of the World. The Metropolitan Police. The Judiciary. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. T...
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